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Network: CBS
Date of Release: May 12, 1992
Director: Michael Tuchner
Screenplay: Daniel Freudenberger
Cinematography: William Wages
Film Editing: David Campling
Set Decoration: Bob Renna
Costume Design: Linda Brenick and Frances Hays
Producer: Robert Huddleston; Joannie Woodruff Cuff (associate); Joseph Maurer (executive); Bradley Wigor (executive)
Original Music: Misha Segal
Note: Also known as With Savage Intent
Elizabeth Montgomery...Gayle Wolfer
Robert Foxworth...Bob Sprague
Howard Rollins...Samuel Carver
Maureen O'Sullivan...Aunt Mildred
Lee Richardson...John Condon
Paul McCrane
Danton Stone
Tom Mardirosian
Jude Ciccolella
Ronny Cox...McLaughlin
Mary Ann Hagan...Susan Claridge
Adam LeFevre...Roger McBain
Kevin O'Rourke...Ted Sloan
Seret Scott...Sarah Bendix
Tom Even...Judge Kubiniec
Joan Riordan...Audrey Moore
Amy Bryson...Barbara
Kevin Crysler...Joe
Tony Higgins...Terry
Jennifer Massey...Michelle
Bob Banks...Dr. Walker
Georgia Allen...Nurse Janet
Bill Coates...Jury Foreman
David Dwyer...Bailiff
Dan Albright...Judge Kasler
C. Harrison Avery, Jr...Barber
Jon Kohler...Officer Burdett
Bruce Evans...Officer Cragin
Karen Beyer...Peg
Steve Coulter...Lead Paramedic
Ted Manson...Walter
Jim Peck...Wilber Squires
In a fact-based movie, Elizabeth Montgomery plays real-estate agent Gayle Wolfer in a small town near Buffalo. She meets a client (Howard Rollins of In the Heat of the Night) for the first time at a rural house she is selling. Things go terribly awry when Rollins starts waving a pistol around and making threats. He shoots Montgomery three times.
Montgomery somehow survives but is further traumatized when she spots her assailant at a state fair dressed in uniform. Turns out he's a deputy sheriff who used her to get around the fences, motion-detectors and other security devices with which the for-sale house was equipped so he could shake down the drug-peddling owner.
Besides being burdened by an extremely slow middle section, this is the most manipulative kind of woman-in-jeopardy film, setting up Montgomery as a saintly woman--we even get to see her grandson born--before brutalizing her. It's also falsely acted all the way around, except for Rollins, who, donning a wig that makes him look like Yaphet Kotto, makes a menacing villain. Grade: C -- Reviewer: David Hiltbrand