House on Greenapple Road (1970)
Directed by Robert Day
Genres - Mystery, Family & Personal Relationships |
Sub-Genres - Police Detective Film, Whodunit |
Release Date - Jan 11, 1970 (USA) |
Run Time - 113 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
House on Greenapple Road was an off-length TV movie (135 minutes instead of the usual 100), first telecast on The ABC Sunday Night Movie on January 11, 1970. Christopher George heads a stellar cast as Lt. Dan August, probing a homicide case in suburbia. The accused, a meek clerk (Tim O'Connor), had plenty of motive to kill his faithless wife (Janet Leigh). Only there's no weapon...and no corpse. After a series of revelatory flashbacks, August deduces that there may be a lot more people and issues involved than a missing housewife. Audience response to House on Greenapple Road was positive enough to spin off into a Dan August TV series. But Christopher George was too busy to be involved, so the role of August went to a fellow who wasn't working all that often; a guy named Burt Reynolds, or something like that.
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police-detective, clerk, homicide, investigation, missing-person, murder-suspect, philandering, wife