Murder Once Removed

Oct 29, 1971

1h 14m

★ 4.8

The perfect crime was death by prescription!

Overview

Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Crime

Production Companies

Bob Markell Productions

Metromedia Producers Corporation

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Cast

Dr. Ron Wellesley

John Forsythe

Frank Manning

Richard Kiley

Nurse Regis

Reta Shaw

Fred Kramer

Wendell Burton

Lt. Phil Proctor

Joseph Campanella

Lisa Manning

Barbara Bain

Officer Charlie Bates (uncredited)

Laurence Haddon

Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at the age of 21, has not seen anything of women or the world. One night, Paul walks in his sleep and wanders from his home. He falls into the company of his mother (whom he does not recognize), Bennett, and Bennett's beautiful ward, Helen, with whom Paul soon falls in love. After a series of thrilling adventures, Paul foils Bennett and reunites his parents; he and Helen hear wedding bells.

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