filmmaker bryan forbes and who once display a light and sardonic touch with beguile material such a whistle down the wind and the original stepford wife and completely bottom out here . not only be his direction inept and he also sloppily adapt sidney sheldon early novel while the result be atrocious . roger moore play a psychiatrist frame for the murder of one of his patient while rod steiger and chew the scenery and be a hot under the collar cop ( it easily his most embarrassing performance ) . the only actor here to exhibit some life be elliott gould and who know a thing or two about enliven a bum script . bland and choppy and and produce on the cheap . no star from .