by Hal Erickson
synopsis
A Tattered Web starts out at a high level of tension which seldom flags during its lean 74 minutes. Lloyd Bridges stars as a police detective who finds out that his son-in-law Frank Converse is cheating on his daughter Sallie Shockley. Catching up with the "other woman," Bridges accidentally kills her. After his initial panic has subsided, the detective rearranges the evidence, pinning the murder on a harmless drunk. Avoiding two-dimensionality, A Tattered Web is told largely from the murderer's point of view; we don't like the man, but we can understand him. Made for television, the film first aired September 24, 1971.
characteristics
- Good-guy
- Generation-gap
- Frame-up
- Infidelity
- Kill
- Police
- Murder
- Framed
- False-accusation
- Adultery
- Adulterer
- Bad-guy
- Cop
- Extramarital-affair
- Detective
