House on Greenapple Road

I really enjoyed this movie and I wish it was released to video. In the opening scene, where Janet Leigh's daughter Eve Plumb comes in, raises chills. There's blood on the refrigerator door. You wonder, what happened. Where there's blood then there must be a body. Could it be Janet Leigh was murdered like in Psycho, by Anthony Perkins? You start detective work, investigating and come up, with your own clues.

This made-for-TV movie turned out to be a successful pilot for the immediately following series "Dan August", but the starring role went to Burt Reynolds instead of Christopher George. Chris George plays Dan August as an independent spirit who is tough in any confrontation. You don't want to be on his bad side.

The movie is PACKED with past, current, and future stars, many of whom aren't listed in the opening credits, like Ed Asner and Lynda Day George ... some in cameo roles.

I wonder how Quinn Martin sold Janet Leigh on her role?

Quinn Martin: "Janet, you've been murdered just before the movie starts. Your character is a slut who's been running around on her weak husband for years. You'll appear in a series of flashback scenes with various men while in swimsuits or your underwear."

Janet Leigh: "Sounds great! When do we start!"

LOL

The movie is well worth the watch if you're into police and detective procedural dramas. I say drama, but there are a few throwaway chuckles along the way.

It's available on YouTube with a surprisingly good picture for YouTube.

I'm glad to see all of the positive comments for this unjustly neglected - and, apparently, largely unknown - made-for-TV movie. Can't imagine why it's not available on home video (or at least on the Mystery Channel or some such).

This whodunnit is presented with style and economy; a lean, mean little thriller, with a prestigious cast that just won't quit. In case you didn't peruse the names, I'll spotlight a few: Janet Leigh, Julie Harris, Walter Pigeon, Keenan Wynn, Barry Sullivan, William Windom, Ed Asner and, of course, Chris George, a solid and dependable actor with screen presence and authority, who was taken from us too soon. Not many made-for-TV movies that weren't big-deal miniseries had casts like this (if any).

Along with these are some players whose names may not be as well-known, but whose talent is as illustrious as those named above, and whose faces will be quite familiar to anyone who was a TV viewer during the late 60's-early 70's. Tim O'Connor, Paul Fix and Joanne Linville deserve honorable mention.

This production is intelligent, witty and literate; indeed, some elements of the plot, dialogue and visuals were pretty strong for TV of the day. At any rate, it's far superior to so many of the tired retreads that pass for mystery-thrillers today (unless you watch the BBC a lot.)

All in all, a nifty picture that deserves to be seen

i also saw this movie when younger (around 7 or 8) and like the other user comments, i remember one scene with blood all over the place in a house. it scared me so much at the time that i actually remembered the name of the movie, found it on IMDb and am now writing this comment. over the years i have remembered then forgotten again, but from time to time would search for it out of curiosity, as if to see if the movie was really the one i saw. I don't remember anything else, just that one haunting scene. there was something about the presentation of themovie/scene that was very realistic, unlike many movies today. it was like suburban nightmare behind close doors sort of image.

This movie haunted me for years. I was 8 or 9 years old when I first saw it and it scared the hell out of me. Back then I was past the point of being afraid of "monsters" and such, but the opening scene in which a really young Eve Plumb( yes, "Jan" on The Brady Bunch) comes home from school, enters the empty house calling out for her mother and finds a bloody hand-print on the refrigerator just hit home with me. What would be a child's worst fear?? Losing their parent(s). The rest of the film is a decent enough murder mystery with some fairly big name 70s actors rounding out the cast. Watch for it in reruns on local TV; I have seen it a couple times over the years.