The movie opens with a man attempting to have sex with "Margo" who is half asleep. She says, "no" pretty much like a wife says "No" to her husband, but gives in anyway. Apparently they have some screen sex (bed sheet pulled up to her neck). The real husband Frank Delgado (Alejandro Rey aka Carlos Gomez of the "Flying Nun" series)comes home and the next thing you know he is loading a body into his car with the proverbial shovel while his wife (Catherine/Katherine Justice) showers (nudity).
The dead man is a client Alan Richmond (Mike Kulcsar). While he is burying him in a shallow grave there is a weird credit roll as if the movie was over. There is another couple out in the woods, although we don't know how close or what they saw. The guy went there to have some fun, the woman went there to frustrate him. They next thing you know he grabs her by the hair, gets her on the ground and slaps her and...well we don't know at this point.
The next morning a group of 4 hippy-esque people show up to go party. Frank reluctantly goes along with them, mostly because he will have to talk to Dick Hill, played by Larry Linville who is uncool in this movie as he was as Frank Burns in M.A.S.H. His wife Sonja is played by Marlene Schmidt.
Meanwhile the cops have found the body of a strangled Mexican woman and that of Alan Richmond who were both strangled about the same time. The case is investigated by Inspector Darnezi (John Anderson, Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Survivors") and Chief Inspector (Duncan McLeod).
The guys are architects. They were designing a house for Richmond, who was ready to seal the deal. It appears everyone knew he was sleeping with Margo, except Frank.
Now the movie is not a who-dun-it. We know who did it. So it is about crime solving, but the inspectors are not entertaining like Columbo, where how they find out holds our interest. The killing plays havoc on their lives. Frank is told about the affair and he is haunted with images of Alan Richmond. This is all find and well, but never fits into the movie. The title "Stepmother" is about Margo.
The script is very bad. The actors did what they could to rescue it. Not worth the time to watch.
The dead man is a client Alan Richmond (Mike Kulcsar). While he is burying him in a shallow grave there is a weird credit roll as if the movie was over. There is another couple out in the woods, although we don't know how close or what they saw. The guy went there to have some fun, the woman went there to frustrate him. They next thing you know he grabs her by the hair, gets her on the ground and slaps her and...well we don't know at this point.
The next morning a group of 4 hippy-esque people show up to go party. Frank reluctantly goes along with them, mostly because he will have to talk to Dick Hill, played by Larry Linville who is uncool in this movie as he was as Frank Burns in M.A.S.H. His wife Sonja is played by Marlene Schmidt.
Meanwhile the cops have found the body of a strangled Mexican woman and that of Alan Richmond who were both strangled about the same time. The case is investigated by Inspector Darnezi (John Anderson, Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Survivors") and Chief Inspector (Duncan McLeod).
The guys are architects. They were designing a house for Richmond, who was ready to seal the deal. It appears everyone knew he was sleeping with Margo, except Frank.
Now the movie is not a who-dun-it. We know who did it. So it is about crime solving, but the inspectors are not entertaining like Columbo, where how they find out holds our interest. The killing plays havoc on their lives. Frank is told about the affair and he is haunted with images of Alan Richmond. This is all find and well, but never fits into the movie. The title "Stepmother" is about Margo.
The script is very bad. The actors did what they could to rescue it. Not worth the time to watch.