Shatner was first rate and riveting in this psychological murder mystery. In later years he lost his intensity and his 'presence'. The scene with him and the psychiatrist played by an excellent Theodore Bickel was powerful and disturbing. I gave this an extra star because it had an ending line that REALLY throws you for loop and would have been perfect for an Alfred Hitchcock Hour. I'll not give it away but it is a REAL surprise.
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You always hurt the one you love
sol-kay14 August 2012
***SPOILERS*** William Shatner is the high strung and somewhat muddled minded Greenwich village artist Roger Barmen who after coming out of what seems like a self induced drug trip on LSD finds his wife Jan dead with over 40 stab wounds. Running through the streets of Manhattan like a raving madman Roger finds his way to his psychiatrist Dr. Wilford's, Theodore Bikes, midtown office trying to get help for the pressing situation, the murder of his wife, that he now finds himself in!
It doesn't take long for the NYPD to come on the scene and interview Roger in him being the prime suspect in his wife's murder. The trouble is that Roger has no idea what happened in that he was out cold on drugs when she was murdered! It was Dr. Wilford who realized that Roger was emotionally unstable and tried to have him, unsuccessfully, committed some three years ago. Now with him going off the deep end it's possible that he flipped his lid and knifed Jan to death when his mind suddenly snapped! Or did he?
***SPOILERS*** The key to Jan's murder is a painting that Roger painted of her just before or after she was murdered. In that painting, if you look hard enough at it, is the clue to what really lead to Jan's murder and even more important who murdered her!It took art expert Barry Morse who noticed something in the painting that alerted him to what it really signified compared to all the other paintings that Roger painted in his studio. Even though the police that included the feel good and ultra sensitive, towards people's problems, Det. Adam Flint, Paul Burke, almost blew the case in checking out a number of false leads that lead to nowhere. In the end it was Roger's painting, his one masterpiece among a pile of junk, of his wife that fingered her killer. A killer who left a clue the size of the Holland Tunnel that almost everyone overlooked that you can drive a 10 ton Ryder Truck through!
It doesn't take long for the NYPD to come on the scene and interview Roger in him being the prime suspect in his wife's murder. The trouble is that Roger has no idea what happened in that he was out cold on drugs when she was murdered! It was Dr. Wilford who realized that Roger was emotionally unstable and tried to have him, unsuccessfully, committed some three years ago. Now with him going off the deep end it's possible that he flipped his lid and knifed Jan to death when his mind suddenly snapped! Or did he?
***SPOILERS*** The key to Jan's murder is a painting that Roger painted of her just before or after she was murdered. In that painting, if you look hard enough at it, is the clue to what really lead to Jan's murder and even more important who murdered her!It took art expert Barry Morse who noticed something in the painting that alerted him to what it really signified compared to all the other paintings that Roger painted in his studio. Even though the police that included the feel good and ultra sensitive, towards people's problems, Det. Adam Flint, Paul Burke, almost blew the case in checking out a number of false leads that lead to nowhere. In the end it was Roger's painting, his one masterpiece among a pile of junk, of his wife that fingered her killer. A killer who left a clue the size of the Holland Tunnel that almost everyone overlooked that you can drive a 10 ton Ryder Truck through!
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