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4 May 1986 (USA)
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A beautiful strange is posing as harry's wife... Someone is lying... And you'll never guess who. Is it a scam or is it murder?
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Based on the play "Trap for a Single Man" by Robert Thomas, this is the story of a newly married woman who disappears while on holiday...
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Gambling
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cool for when it came out...
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Mike Farrell | ... | Harry Kenyon | |
| Margot Kidder | ... | Chris Kenyon | |
| Fred Gwynne | ... | Father Macklin | |
| Graham Jarvis | ... | Dr. DeMarco | |
| Elliott Gould | ... | Lieutenant Rudameyer | |
| Heather Ward Siegel | ... | Flute Girl | |
| Wally MacSween | ... | Banker | |
| John Bluethner | ... | First Paramedic | |
| Howard Glassman | ... | Second Paramedic | |
| Paul Coeur | ... | Pilot (as Paul Jolicoeur) | |
| Grant Lowe | ... | Desk Clerk | |
| Linda Mackay | ... | Bar Girl | |
| Larry Musser | ... | Basketball Referee | |
| Tony Totino | ... | Basketball Cop |
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Hoax (Canada: English title) (working title)
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95 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)
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The UK video version was cut by 30 secs for a PG rating by the BBFC to edit a possibly imitable scene where a key is pushed out of a door lock using a wire coat-hanger.
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Remake of Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969) (TV)
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Mike Farrell played B.J. Hunnicut on the television show M*A*S*H, and Elliot Gould played Trapper John in the movie!
The actors did a decent job - most likely knowing it was going to be a TV movie.. not that there's anything wrong with that. It was different, and if you watch it just to see Fred Gwynne, that'd be all right.
It's a "whodunnit?" like no other.. unless there are others like it!
I remember watching this when it first came out on television. I suppose that's why I like it. I'd also like to watch "The Washington Papers" also starring Eliott Gould. Mike Farrell definitely plays a different character then he did on M*A*S*H.