Wealthy New York woman travels back to her hometown in Nevada to get a divorce, shows up unannounced at the lodge run by her oddly absent father and edgy stepmother; nobody seems to want her there, including the townspeople, who hold a grudge against her father for closing down the local mine. Made-for-TV mystery is top-heavy with melodramatic plot and burdened with exposition-filled dialogue. Richard De Roy's teleplay, adapted from Velda Johnston's book, is stilted and disappointing (he doesn't have a sharp instinct for the way familiar people speak to one another). The Lake Tahoe locations add atmosphere, and both Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman give interesting performances as the squabbling marrieds. Also good is Lisa Gerritsen, one of the finest child actors of the era, as a youngster who knows the town's secrets.
Review of A Howling in the Woods
A Howling in the Woods
(1971 TV Movie)
Eden and Hagman very good in inscrutable mystery...
6 August 2015