it be hard to watch this film and be totally fair and objective since i be a big fan the original 1944 movie . that and to me and many others and be one of the great film noirs ever make . realize this be simply a shorten make for tv film and that most people have trash it and i do not expect much and but you can not help but compare this with the 44 film . scene after scene and i find myself compare what i be look at it and and remember how it play out with fred macmurray and barbara stanwyck and edward g. robinson and others . now i be see these famous actor play their famous role replace by richard crenna and samantha eggar and lee j. cobb . when it be all over and i find it wasn not as bad a i have expect but it no match for the 1944 original . the two main area in which this make for tv film wasn not as good be ( 1 ) the electricity between the two lead be miss and ( 2 ) be only 90 minute and they rush the story with hardly time to develop the plot and character and chemistry between those lead . crenna and eggar be flat and and simply no match for macmurray and stanwyck a walter neff and phyllis dietrichson and respectively . where this re make hold it own be in the other character and such a barton keyes and edward norton . cobb be terrific a keyes and robert webber a norton and head of the insurance company . it also be somewhat interesting to see the time frame change and so the house and car and telephone and dictate machine and etc . and be all early 70 instead of mid 40 . otherwise and the storyline be very similar and just rush . however and one viewing be enough and i will happily go back to the original version for the rest of my viewing of this classic story and film .