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directed by

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. It stars

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and

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. This remake of ''

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'' (1965) was originally made for television but shown first in theaters. The film was

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's final film role before her death in March 1977.

Plot

After someone places

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s laced with

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in his cup of coffee, Jonathan Fields regains consciousness, only to find a woman drowned in his bathtub and flecks of blood on his hands and clothes. Suffering from amnesia, Fields can't think of anywhere else to turn, so he hires Arthur Belding, a private detective, to help him find out what happened. Returning to work at a scientific think tank, Fields encounters a concerned woman who claims to be his sweetheart, Helen Atterbury, and a colleague who's been after his job, Lew Haley. A hippie, Dill, and an accomplice kidnap Belding and attempt to drug him, but the detective escapes and recuperates with the help of Sarah, his girlfriend. He and Fields eventually discover that Dr. Edward Arkroyd, the head of the think tank who had been having a romantic affair with the murder victim, has been murdered as well, and that Haley is behind both the killings. A fistfight ensues between Fields and Haley, resulting in the latter falling out a window to his death.

Cast

as Arthur Belding *

as Jonathan Fields * Hope Lange as Helen Atterbury * Pat Hingle as Lew Haley *

as Sarah * Susan Saint James as Ida * Michael J. Pollard as Dill *

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as Arkroyd

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* * 1960s mystery thriller films 1968 films American black-and-white films American mystery thriller films 1960s English-language films Films about amnesia Films directed by James Goldstone Films with screenplays by Ranald MacDougall Films scored by Quincy Jones Universal Pictures films 1960s American films English-language mystery thriller films {{1960s-US-film-stub

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