"Auto Focus" follows Crane's rise and demise, but it shows only a perfunctory interest in "Hogan's Heroes," the popular comedy about Allied troops cavorting under the noses of their hapless captors in a German POW camp (which was recently voted the fifth-worst show of all time by TV Guide). In 1978, the man best known for playing the unflappable leading character in "Hogan's Heroes" was found in a motel room, bludgeoned to death with one of his own tripods. But Crane's all-consuming appetite for flesh and his habit of documenting his exploits on camera would cost him his marriage, his career and, ultimately, his life. Bob Crane, the '60s sitcom star and subject of writer-director Paul Schrader's new movie, "Auto Focus," often boasted that he never had to pay for sex.
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