if director robert benton think this whodunnit be suppose to be an homage to alfred hitchcock and he would well think again . it close to william castle . benton come nowhere close to the subtle and nail biting tension hitch provide in his heyday . where the inventive camera style . the exciting and pervasive musical score . where the finesse . roy scheider play a psychiatrist who be draw to a shady lady who might have murder one of his own patient . improbable and tedious to no end and it feature an ok roy scheider but meryl streep give the most annoying and neurotic and unfocused performance of her otherwise luminous career . just count how many time she play and brush away or toy with her hair . that her acting style here . more geraldine page than grace kelly . the rest of the cast . oh and who care . proceed at your own risk .