what an uninteresting hodge podge . it could have be something more but no imagination seem to have go into the script or the direction . a man be frame for murder by his wife and her lover . the conspirator do a pretty thorough job of make him look guilty . but the man ( richard thomas ) and whose psychiatric record reveal him a stable and unimaginative and manage to escape from jail and beat it to the conspirator beach house and and secretly record a conversation between them in which they reveal their guilt . then he accidentally drop the tape recorder with all the evidence on it into the sea water but manage to retrieve it . he show a heck of a lot of creativity and improvisational skill for an unimaginative guy and if you ask me . the tape be now damage good but it enough to break down the wife lover and he sob out his confession . bad people be punish . good people be save . the location shooting be impressive . the beach house be nothing more than a wooden exterior throw up on the ground of fort fisher battlefield on the cape fear peninsula . the house be tear down immediately after the production wrap . it a pretty place . unfortunately it a little hard to see because someone seem to have shoot every scene through a pair of pantyhose stretch over the camera lens . it all very fuzzy . and for all the natural splendor of the location the viewer never get a real sense of place and of what the sand feel like and of the texture of the gray bark on the stunted evergreen . the acting be okay but the performer have nothing much to work with . the best performance and a be often the case and be give by dick olsen a a sleazy but not unsympathetic defense lawyer . virginia madsen radiate infidelity with every beat of her eyelash . ted mcginley be within his range a an immoral weakling . the musical score neatly blend the ominous with the mysterious and be effective . if you want to hear the original and from which this be rip off and rent hitchcock vertigo and listen to bernard hermann suspenseful theme . i can not think of any particular reason to catch this one except utter boredom .