A doctor and the wife of one of his wealthy patients hatch a plot to get rid of her husband so they can be together and get his money.A doctor and the wife of one of his wealthy patients hatch a plot to get rid of her husband so they can be together and get his money.A doctor and the wife of one of his wealthy patients hatch a plot to get rid of her husband so they can be together and get his money.
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- TriviaIn 1969, during the acceptance speech for her third consecutive Emmy for Mission: Impossible, Barbara Bain announced that she was leaving the series. She did so because her husband, Martin Landau, also left the series at the same time over a pay dispute. Landau had never had more than one-year contracts, however, and was free to leave at the end of that series' third season. Bain, however, had signed a standard five-year contract. Paramount Television obtained a court order that she could not work in Hollywood until her contract expired. This TV movie was her first dramatic role in two years because of Paramount's court order.
- GoofsThe doctors examination room is a crime scene and should have been taped-off. Yet it is continuously used as if nothing happened in there.
- ConnectionsReferences The Great Dictator (1940)
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Good Low Budget TV Thriller
VERY worth while 74 minute diversion here, a strikingly offbeat, Neo Noir ultra low budget made for TV movie (CBS) with John Forsythe cast brilliantly against type as a philandering doctor who finds himself engaged in a cat & mouse battle of wits against the husband of his mistress. Barbara Bain from "Space: 1999" plays the woman, Richard Kiley is the husband, Wendell Burton is the junkie set up as the fall guy, Joseph Campanella is the hard-nosed police detective who seems troubled by certain loose ends, and Reta Shaw steals the show as the doctor's nurse, who is perhaps a bit too observant and inquisitive to have stayed on with this particular doctor as long as is implied.
Why? Well you see several of Forsythe's patients have died. Rather suddenly. It can all be explained very simply, but this is one of those clever scripts where nothing is quite as simple as it seems. And at a mere 74 minutes it's not much of an imposition on anyone's schedule. Sure, it was made for commercial TV in 1971 so there isn't anything *too* distasteful on camera. Viewers who predicate their enjoyment movies based on people's heads exploding might be a tad disappointed, but if you PAY ATTENTION you will be rewarded. And a repeat viewing might answer some questions about passages of dialog that slipped by on the first time through.
Definitely worth having, and a respectable enough little movie to maybe watch with mom on a rainy evening when she needs some company. Can't say that about too many murder movies.
7/10
Why? Well you see several of Forsythe's patients have died. Rather suddenly. It can all be explained very simply, but this is one of those clever scripts where nothing is quite as simple as it seems. And at a mere 74 minutes it's not much of an imposition on anyone's schedule. Sure, it was made for commercial TV in 1971 so there isn't anything *too* distasteful on camera. Viewers who predicate their enjoyment movies based on people's heads exploding might be a tad disappointed, but if you PAY ATTENTION you will be rewarded. And a repeat viewing might answer some questions about passages of dialog that slipped by on the first time through.
Definitely worth having, and a respectable enough little movie to maybe watch with mom on a rainy evening when she needs some company. Can't say that about too many murder movies.
7/10
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- Steve_Nyland
- Jun 10, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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