House on Greenapple Road (TV 1970)A detective investigates the disappearance of the promiscuous wife of a timid salesman, and finds that everything is not quite as it appears. Director:Robert Day |
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House on Greenapple Road (TV 1970)A detective investigates the disappearance of the promiscuous wife of a timid salesman, and finds that everything is not quite as it appears. Director:Robert Day |
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| Christopher George | ... |
Lieutenant Dan August
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| Janet Leigh | ... |
Marian Ord
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| Julie Harris | ... |
Leona Miller
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Tim O'Connor | ... |
George Ord
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| Walter Pidgeon | ... |
Mayor Jack Parker
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Barry Sullivan | ... |
Chief Frank Untermyer
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| Keenan Wynn | ... |
Sergeant Charles Wilentz
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| Peter Mark Richman | ... |
Sal Gilman
(as Mark Richman)
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| William Windom | ... |
Paul Durstine
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Burr DeBenning | ... |
Bill Foley
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| Lynda Day George | ... |
Lillian Crane
(as Lynda Day)
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Joanne Linville | ... |
Connie Durstine
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| Edward Asner | ... |
Sheriff Muntz
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| Eve Plumb | ... |
Margaret Ord
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| Lawrence Dane | ... |
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Told in flashbacks, L.A. detective Lieutenant Dan August investigates the disappearance of housewife, Marian Ord whose extramarital activities possibly provide clues to her absence. The police believe she has been murdered by her distraught husband George but they can't come up with a corpse and thereby hangs the mystery. Written by alfiehitchie
TV-movies, especially those from the late-'60s and early-'70s, are an under-appreciated breed (probably the least-respected in the film industry). Leonard Maltin has all but dropped them from his annual review books and you never hear about anybody trying to preserve Barbara Eden in "Let's Switch!" or Kim Novak in "The Third Girl From The Left". Every once in awhile, a TV-movie gets mentioned with respect (such as "Brian's Song", "Sunshine", or "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom"). I've always thought "The House On Greenapple Road" could've been a theatrical film, it is produced with such style and has a great, scary set-up: a young girl gets dropped off from school, runs up the driveway to her house, opens the door and finds the entire place ransacked, with blood spattering the walls. This sequence terrified me as a little kid (I was amused to discover years later that the young actress was "Brady Bunch"'s Eve Plumb!). Onto the mystery, which surrounds a missing lady (Janet Leigh) and the investigator on the case (Christopher George playing Dan August). The character of August later got his own series (starring Burt Reynolds), but this flick is more than just a pilot, it has twists and turns and a sophisticated script. The ending doesn't cop-out, although I must say it followed a rather routine development. Overall, a neat little yarn, and Janet Leigh is just gorgeous.