On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
Acting
George Peppard's quiet desperation as everything crumbles.
Direction
George Schaefer's TV-honed tension in theatrical release.
Director
George Schaefer
George Peppard
Capt. Frank Matthews
Jean Seberg
Adele Matthews
Richard Kiley
Woodrow Wilson King
Charles McGraw
Deputy Chief John P. Hildebrand
Madeleine Sherwood
Mrs. Eileen Sanderson
Robert F. Lyons
Paul Martin Sanderson
Marj Dusay
Liz Tennant
Paul McGrath
Senator Augustus Cole
Stewart Moss
Richard D'Angelo
Isabel Sanford
Effie
Dana Elcar
Det. J.J. 'Red' Thornton
Robin Raymond
Myra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months before the Manson murders, its paranoid atmosphere of hidden violence in respectable homes accidentally predicted the cultural mood.
Peppard was at his post-Breakfast at Tiffany's peak here, but the film's commercial failure helped push him toward TV's Banacek by 1972.
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