***SPOILERS*** Bluebeard-like doctor Keith Bauers, Alex McArthur, gets rich by marrying rich old women and then having them slowly killed by his lovers whom the good doctor later knocks off himself. The reason he does that is to keep them from talking to the cops and worst of all sharing his late old lady's money.
Dr. Bauers get a nanny Janin, Lydie Devier,from France to look after things as he's busy doing his work on the operating table, as an air-tight alibi,if something goes fatally wrong like his wife ODing on drugs back at home. Dr. Bauers is planning to do in his latest wife of eight years whom he has two lovely children with Melanie, Kathleen Quinlan. Melanie also happens to have a three million inheritance that Bauers will get after she's knocked off or better yet made to look like she's OD'ed on sleeping pills.
Melanie's sister Paula, Anne Ramsay, smells a rat in Dr. Bauers when she catches him with the nanny making out in the back yard when Mrs' Bauers is away at her job at the local antiques shop. It's then that Paula hires private detective Franklin Dupard, Charles Martin Smith,to check out the two and see what their up to. Janine gets the drop on Palua and causes her to have a fatal accident by shoving her down a flight of stairs breaking her neck and then drenching her body with booze to make it look like it was the bottle, not Janine, that was responsible for her death.
Melanie's boss at the antique shop the plucky and nosy Laney Tobert, Teri Garr, feels that Paula's death wasn't an accident and fears for Melanie's safety by going to the police only to get shown to the door by the very annoyed Det. Ryker, Hector Elizondo. Det. Ryker has to put up with his very hungry partner Det.Onoda, Gadda Watanabe, who eats like a horse and, to Ryker's disgust and envy, doesn't as much as gain a single once. It's later when Det. Ryker checks out Dr. Bauers past that he finds that his first wife Ellen Kringle, Jenifer Shaw, died under very strange and unusual circumstances eight years ago with Dr. Bauers then girlfriend Marliyan Zakowski, Shano Palovich,being the main suspect in her death, a drug overdose. Before Miss. Zakowski could be interviewed by the local, Bolder Colorodo, police she's killed in a car crash the car provided to her, bad breaks and all, by her boyfriend Dr. Bauers.
Average made for TV suspense/crime drama with Teri Garr and Hector Elizondo making a fine team in uncovering the plot to murder Melanie Bauers by her greedy husband Dr. Keith and his coldblooded girlfriend Janine. The love sick Janine finds out very late in the movie that the good doctor was also planing to do her in just like his wife and thus keep all her money all for himself.
Dr. Bauers get a nanny Janin, Lydie Devier,from France to look after things as he's busy doing his work on the operating table, as an air-tight alibi,if something goes fatally wrong like his wife ODing on drugs back at home. Dr. Bauers is planning to do in his latest wife of eight years whom he has two lovely children with Melanie, Kathleen Quinlan. Melanie also happens to have a three million inheritance that Bauers will get after she's knocked off or better yet made to look like she's OD'ed on sleeping pills.
Melanie's sister Paula, Anne Ramsay, smells a rat in Dr. Bauers when she catches him with the nanny making out in the back yard when Mrs' Bauers is away at her job at the local antiques shop. It's then that Paula hires private detective Franklin Dupard, Charles Martin Smith,to check out the two and see what their up to. Janine gets the drop on Palua and causes her to have a fatal accident by shoving her down a flight of stairs breaking her neck and then drenching her body with booze to make it look like it was the bottle, not Janine, that was responsible for her death.
Melanie's boss at the antique shop the plucky and nosy Laney Tobert, Teri Garr, feels that Paula's death wasn't an accident and fears for Melanie's safety by going to the police only to get shown to the door by the very annoyed Det. Ryker, Hector Elizondo. Det. Ryker has to put up with his very hungry partner Det.Onoda, Gadda Watanabe, who eats like a horse and, to Ryker's disgust and envy, doesn't as much as gain a single once. It's later when Det. Ryker checks out Dr. Bauers past that he finds that his first wife Ellen Kringle, Jenifer Shaw, died under very strange and unusual circumstances eight years ago with Dr. Bauers then girlfriend Marliyan Zakowski, Shano Palovich,being the main suspect in her death, a drug overdose. Before Miss. Zakowski could be interviewed by the local, Bolder Colorodo, police she's killed in a car crash the car provided to her, bad breaks and all, by her boyfriend Dr. Bauers.
Average made for TV suspense/crime drama with Teri Garr and Hector Elizondo making a fine team in uncovering the plot to murder Melanie Bauers by her greedy husband Dr. Keith and his coldblooded girlfriend Janine. The love sick Janine finds out very late in the movie that the good doctor was also planing to do her in just like his wife and thus keep all her money all for himself.