Agrarian nutrition engineer Walter Carmichael (Stephen Keep Mills) works for the state of California inspecting fruit groves. He follows up on some pesticide complaints with Martin Donlevy (Dick York) sinister CEO of Pritchard Grove, a large California orange grower.
Carmichael disappears shortly after meeting with Donlevy to discuss his use of a pesticide which is killing local animals including livestock on ranch land.
Carmichael's gorgeous young wife Hilda (Randi Brooks) hires private investigators the Simon Brothers - sometime free-spirit/sometime grouch Vietnam vet Rick (Gerald McCraney) and his snobby college boy little brother A.J. (Jameson Parker) to find Walter.
While investigating Donlevy, Rick and A.J. find out more about Walter and it doesn't add up. He has a second wife (Tori Lysdal) as beautiful, young and shapely as his other wife. Rick has trouble dealing with it because he just doesn't get what women would find appealing about Walter. He becomes as preoccupied with figuring out what Walter has going for him as he does with finding out where the missing man is.
Meanwhile A.J. becomes more preoccupied with the sketchy circumstances under which Walter has married each of his wives. Then they meet stunning wife #3 (Morgan Most). All three are widowed heiresses.
Looks like what they started with was a typical corporate villainy investigation but tried to sex it up by grafting on a bigamy subplot with three very attractive actresses including Randi Brooks (a boyhood crush of mine). That might have worked as a sight gag if they had gotten an actor who was so spectacularly unattractive to be a sight gag.
Stephen Keep Mills was no Cary Grant. But he was not a sight gag. The role called for more than an actor who could just act nerdy and stodgy.
Carmichael disappears shortly after meeting with Donlevy to discuss his use of a pesticide which is killing local animals including livestock on ranch land.
Carmichael's gorgeous young wife Hilda (Randi Brooks) hires private investigators the Simon Brothers - sometime free-spirit/sometime grouch Vietnam vet Rick (Gerald McCraney) and his snobby college boy little brother A.J. (Jameson Parker) to find Walter.
While investigating Donlevy, Rick and A.J. find out more about Walter and it doesn't add up. He has a second wife (Tori Lysdal) as beautiful, young and shapely as his other wife. Rick has trouble dealing with it because he just doesn't get what women would find appealing about Walter. He becomes as preoccupied with figuring out what Walter has going for him as he does with finding out where the missing man is.
Meanwhile A.J. becomes more preoccupied with the sketchy circumstances under which Walter has married each of his wives. Then they meet stunning wife #3 (Morgan Most). All three are widowed heiresses.
Looks like what they started with was a typical corporate villainy investigation but tried to sex it up by grafting on a bigamy subplot with three very attractive actresses including Randi Brooks (a boyhood crush of mine). That might have worked as a sight gag if they had gotten an actor who was so spectacularly unattractive to be a sight gag.
Stephen Keep Mills was no Cary Grant. But he was not a sight gag. The role called for more than an actor who could just act nerdy and stodgy.