The Woman Hunter

This was like a dull television show. I would hope that when a director looks at a script, he or she would make an effort to produce something that teaches or delights or does something to make the effort worthwhile. There is really nothing here. Barbara Eden is honeymooning with Robert Vaughn. He seems only interested in business. She has recently lost her first husband in a terrible accident. There have been some recent jewel thefts and a woman has been murdered. Barbara becomes attracted to a handsome young artist, and he becomes the murder suspect. There are efforts made to gaslight Barbara, but she knows what she knows. The movie grinds along to a contrived conclusion. We do get to see Barbara in all kinds of outfits. It's really not worth an hour and a half of your time.

This picture was released on September 19 1972 starring Barbara Eden as Dina Hunter, Robert Vaughn as Jerry Hunter and Stuart Whitman as Paul Carter. Dina Hunter and her husband are going on vacation to Mexico. While in Mexico, some international people get the idea that Dina has many jewels that are worth millions. Things start to happen to the point that Dina starts to get paranoid and to her disbelief that her husband doesn't believe her. I bought this movie because of Barbara Eden and I was somewhat disappointed. The Barbara Eden that was in this movie and the one that played the role of Jeanie where two different people. To me this movie also lacks action and drama. It was hard to stay interested in this picture that's why I'm giving this movie only 5 weasel stars.

I found this movie in a dollar bin which was actually on sale 10 for a buck and figured 'what the hell'. I usually don't like to buy those because the movies are mostly crap and the picture and sound quality is also mostly crap. But I was always a Jeannie fan so. . . While the plot is a little slow and a bit (much less than I thought it would be) dated, Barbara Eden doesn't fail to make it somewhat interesting. It's about a wealthy woman who is trying to recover from a dark incident in her past which has resulted in a precarious emotional state. Then there's the storyline of rich women being bumped off in various parts of the world. Stuart Whitman plays a mysterious character and Robert Vaughn plays her cold, distant, workaholic husband. The ending is a surprise ending and I'm probably the only viewer who didn't see it coming.

Someone on here made a disparaging comment about Stuart Whitman's pot belly and it made me think. I've been watching quite a few 70's movies and TV shows lately and have noticed how actors in those days and prior didn't seem to try to be so physically perfect the way they do now. They had pot bellies, balding heads, crooked stained teeth and (omg!) wrinkles--wrinkles when they were actually old and **should** have winkles! No botox, no "Hair Club For Men", no teeth bleaching. People were **real**. That reviewer was offended by SW's belly. I found it comforting.

Not a bad little 70's made-for-TV flick. A bit better than the usual dollar bin crap. Oh, and in the middle of the movie, Barbara Eden suddenly breaks into this cool and sexy dance for absolutely no reason. . .hence my review heading.

I found this video on the $3.00 bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Typical 1970s made for TV shlock. Barbara stars as a rich heiress(how come in the movies they all look like Barbara Eden and not like Barbara Hutton?)vacationing in the Bahamas with husband Robert Vaughn. It seems that Stuart Whitman is following her and recording her every move in his little 1972 tape recorder.(His middle-aged body is displayed in various forms of undress for those of you into pot bellies and flab.)Barbara finds Stu's tape recorder and goes to the police, but everyone thinks she's batty because all rich women think everyone wants to kill them. Very lame story, dreadful acting and predictable plot. The only reason to watch this film is to finally get to see Barbara's navel. Other than that stick to the reruns of "I Dream of Jeannie".

Stuart Whitman is stalking Barbara Eden. She's an heiress married to Robert Vaughan, and she's just gotten out of the hospital, so they take a vacation in Mexico, where Larry Storch tells stories at night, and Whitman is their next-door neighbor. He is a painter, so after meeting Eden (whose character is named Dina Hunter; the Hunter woman, get it) on the beach, and catching her in a bikini, he offers to paint her portrait. Then he 'runs into' Vaughan in town, and sticks himself in the middle of their lives. As Miss Eden grows more and more uneasy, Vaughan tries to remember where he's seen Whitman before. Well, the man's career was shrinking in prominence.

It's a TV movie of the 'cozy mystery' variety that now seems to run all the time on the Lifetime cable channel. Director Bernie Kowalski does a decent job with his highly professional cast and standard camerawork.It's nice to see Vaughan play a decent guy, and Miss Eden in a bikini. It looks like editor Melvin Shapiro had to leave the end to a couple of subplots on the cutting room floor.