Six months ago in Beacon Hill, Vivian Heldon (Jan Sterling) demands a meeting at "The Grass Skirt" but the man never shows. She finds a drunken Henry Shanway at the bar and pretends to help him. Instead she drives him to Cape Cod to confront her rich married boyfriend. Henry needs to get back to his wife in a hospital but she leaves him at the side of the road. The mystery boyfriend shoots Vivian dead and dumps the car into the waters. Later, a skeleton is found on the beach. Police Lt. Pete Morales (Ricardo Montalban) investigates with the help of Harvard forensic specialist Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett).
This starts very well. Jan Sterling plays a great broad and her story is interesting. However the movie kills her off in 15 minutes and it turns into a dry boring CSI episode. It was probably interesting stuff in the old days but it's too stale to be interesting today. They don't have the bells and whistles yet. The police investigation is pretty stiff with Ricardo Montalban although it may have been progressive to have a non-white as the lead authority character.
This starts very well. Jan Sterling plays a great broad and her story is interesting. However the movie kills her off in 15 minutes and it turns into a dry boring CSI episode. It was probably interesting stuff in the old days but it's too stale to be interesting today. They don't have the bells and whistles yet. The police investigation is pretty stiff with Ricardo Montalban although it may have been progressive to have a non-white as the lead authority character.