Amnesiac mystery starts off well benefiting from George Peppard at his handsome peak but bogs down - doesn't have enough action and movement, too much hanging around a house. Elizabeth Ashley isn't quite right as the female lead - I'm sure she was great on stage, but that magic doesn't transfer. Roddy McDowall is fun as her slimy brother and Herbert Marshall offers some low key star power as his father in law but other roles feel undercast: Mona Washborne, Arthur O'Connell.
It's fun to see Sally Kellerman as a floozy and Arte Johnson is a creepy dude. This is the sort of film I expected Robert Webber to turn up in and he did.
The main problem is the lack of star power and pace. If they couldn't afford other names in the case it needed Peppard to be on the run more, uncovering things more slowly.
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