Lloyd Bridges plays an uptight cop in A Tattered Web. He's so uptight his idea of a good time is to harass his son in-law's mistress (Anne Helm). But at least he apparently does his harassing when he is off duty.
His obsession with bothering Anne Helm is so manic that he misses singing "For She's A Jolly Good Fellow" at his daughter's (Sallie Shockley) birthday party. As if this weren't bad enough, he later accidentally kills Anne Helm, which allows Minneapolis, Minnesota's James Hong to have a brief scene as a coroner.
Lloyd goes to a lot of trouble to avoid becoming entangled with the justice system, even framing a booze addled Broderick Crawford. Crawford's acting is so good it seems like he's trying to be the first actor to win an Oscar for a Made For TV movie. Eventually Lloyd's guilty conscious gets to him on the edge of a California coastline cliff. We the viewer hope Lloyd will take advantage of the cliff and fall off of it. Instead, he expresses anguish over his crime and ends up with messy hair. As the story winds down, faith in law enforcement is restored and Lloyd promises to be a better dad, even if he has to do it from behind bars.
His obsession with bothering Anne Helm is so manic that he misses singing "For She's A Jolly Good Fellow" at his daughter's (Sallie Shockley) birthday party. As if this weren't bad enough, he later accidentally kills Anne Helm, which allows Minneapolis, Minnesota's James Hong to have a brief scene as a coroner.
Lloyd goes to a lot of trouble to avoid becoming entangled with the justice system, even framing a booze addled Broderick Crawford. Crawford's acting is so good it seems like he's trying to be the first actor to win an Oscar for a Made For TV movie. Eventually Lloyd's guilty conscious gets to him on the edge of a California coastline cliff. We the viewer hope Lloyd will take advantage of the cliff and fall off of it. Instead, he expresses anguish over his crime and ends up with messy hair. As the story winds down, faith in law enforcement is restored and Lloyd promises to be a better dad, even if he has to do it from behind bars.