Still of the Night (1982) - the most Hitch-referencing (non-parody) film ever?

I haven't seen Still of the Night since its release, but I recall being disappointed by it. Streep had too much of the "grande dame" reputation back then to play a regular thriller star, and Scheider's star was always wobbly(he turned down Family Plot over his new Jaws stardom, but that didn't hold much more than a decade, with only All That Jazz as a true classic.)

Brian DePalma made a funny remark about that movie. He said that one reason he DID put women in jeopardy is that men are less easily menaced on the screen. He said a scene in Still of the Night with Schedier menaced in the dark by a killer was silly -- "Schedier killed Jaws, after all!" (I don't hold with DePalma's theory that only women are properly menaced and murdered in movies -- Exhibit A: Arbogast.)

Robert Benton made his name with Bonnie and Clyde(very much influenced by Truffaut AND Hitchcock at the time) with his partner David Newman, but went on solo to do Kramer vs. Kramer.

I love two "smallish" Benton noir thrillers: Nadine(1987) and The Ice Harvest(2005.) They are films about small time criminals in small town America -- but people get murdered and the danger is real. I recommend those two.