The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I was searching youtube for made-for-TV mysteries one night and came across this little 1970's ABC mystery.It begins innocently; a little girl gets dropped off at her house and wanders inside... and suddenly all hell breaks loose when the girl discovers a ton of blood all over the kitchen. She goes to the neighbors and a police investigation begins to find the girl's mom... but Marian was not the most faithful of wives.Not only was the mystery intriguing but the acting was excellent, especially for a TV movie. I loved the title credits' originality and the soundtrack. Check this underrated little movie out with All the Kind Strangers (1974) and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), you won't be disappointed.

I am dying to see this film again but cant find it anywhere and everyone i ask about it gives me blank looks! Mommy i'm home is the opening line, and what follows has stuck in my head for 38 years! just goes to prove that this era produced some of the best entertainment around! the bloody hand print on the fridge, the mess in the kitchen, all simple stuff by todays standards but left a much bigger impression on me than some of the rubbish that passes for entertainment nowadays! I was only 6 years old when i first saw this film so i didn't really appreciate Janet Leigh's professionalism and beauty until i watched Psycho much later, i then realised the similarity between the two films! if the powers that be are reading, please release this on DVD!

I saw the initial telecast of this crime drama on ABC in 1970. The Sunday Night Movie was usually a theatrical film trimmed for broadcast and every so often a made for TV "world premiere" was shown as well. This was one of the best of those in-house TV movies.I was in junior high and it made quite an impression at the time. Well-acted, more sophisticated than many of the procedurals we have on television today. Not gratuitous but pretty graphic for the time on ABC.Christopher George was an under-appreciated actor who was often cast as the heavy. Here he gave a layered, realistic performance as Lt. Dan August.I recently found a DVD-R copy of this title at www.adifferentcity.com. The quality was pretty good and it was great to see the movie after 34 years!

TV-movies, especially those from the late-'60s and early-'70s, are an under-appreciated breed (probably the least-respected in the film industry). Leonard Maltin has all but dropped them from his annual review book, and you never hear about anybody trying to preserve Barbara Eden in "Let's Switch!" or Gloria Swanson in "Killer Bees". Every once in awhile, a TV-movie gets mentioned with respect, such as "Brian's Song" or "Sunshine". I've always thought "House On Greenapple Road" could have been a theatrical film, it is produced with such style and has a great, scary set-up: a young girl gets dropped off from school, runs up the driveway to her house, opens the door and finds the entire place ransacked, with blood spattering the walls. This sequence terrified me as a kid (I was amused to discover years later that the young actress was "Brady Bunch"'s Eve Plumb!). Onto the mystery, which surrounds a missing lady (Janet Leigh) and the investigator on the case (Christopher George playing Dan August). The character of August later got his own series (starring Burt Reynolds), but this feature is more than just a pilot, it has twists and a sophisticated script. The ending doesn't cop-out, although I must say it followed a rather routine development. Overall, a neat little yarn, and Janet Leigh is just gorgeous.