The Woman Hunter (1972 TV Movie)
5/10
Poor little rich girl.
24 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This film will mostly be of interest because of the presence of Barbara Eden, just after "I Dream of Jeannie" went off the air. Like Elizabeth Montgomery of "Bewitched" fame, Eden long to sink her teeth into drama, and as a wealthy young woman on vacation in Mexico with her husband Robert Vaughn, she gets to do one of the oldest themes in drama ever written, the woman in peril. Feeling neglected by her husband, she goes through a bit of a nervous breakdown of sorts, and after encountering Stuart Whitman on the beach, has a feeling that he is stalking her for some reason.

Memories of a car accident take over her psyche, and when Whitman appears out of the blue, she has a panic attack which results in another car accident. The beautiful locations aides in making this weakly told story a bit better as the film, just over 70 minutes, doesn't give enough detail to a lot of the important information the film really needed. Eden's character is perfectly written, but characters played by Vaughn and Whitman don't really have a lot of character beyond the surface. Larry Storch is seen in a very small part at the beginning of the film, a comic role that easily could have been cut out. The film's climax is quite disappointing, a let down to everything that came before.
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