Thursday, October 6, 2011

Five Desperate Women (1971)


ABC Movie of the Week
Directed by Ted Post
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Escaped convict terrorizes five women who take a trip to a remote island for a school reunion. There are actually two men on the island, the captain of the boat and the caretaker, either of whom could be the killer. Joan Hackett is the first to die, strangled while under the influence of sleeping pills. The others discover her body and proceed to freak out. The only boat goes up in flames. One of the men is killed and the identity of the killer finally revealed. He's got one more victim on his list. The women are mostly dumb, the murders tame, the mystery uninteresting, in other words, a typical made-for-TV movie.

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