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This tale of a married, mild-mannered salesman who innocently met up with a facially beautiful flower child girl of some kind starts off excellent. A neat first meeting, their ride through the Golden Gate bridge then back at her place all done very believable. Unfortunately here is where the story goes too violent for many squeamish. She falls hurts her head and we think she sadly passed away. Her boyfriend comes in, finds her alive ( our relief) then he viciously kills her. The to-women beef cake actor playing her boyfriend is much too hateful in some of his scenes including this one ( his character seems too monstrous as he is rather without good qualities)! It is too suggestive and graphic for kids under 15 and any sensitive viewers.

You are better off watching till they get to her apt. Then going over to act 2 on the DvD. For those who seen this slightly too brutal episode of SOSF here is an analysis of the rest of the ep. Starts off looking simple enough of a plot but grows far more complicated when we get to the convention the salesman was headed for when the beauty met up with him. The epilogue seems not to explain anything like of any importance like whether or not the salesman got off easy with the cops after being taken into custody along with the murderer. Jo Ann Harris is very sexy and beautiful in her part as the young murdered lady. Jacqueline Scott is sexy as the salesman's actual loving and concerned wife.

In the 70's city of love, art and kooks gives us 45 Minutes from Home. A square type of guy from old school suburbia Los Angeles has a strange gal jump into his rented convertible while visiting for a convention in the Bay city. What works for 45 Minutes from home is a very 70's plot twist. A suspect who just keeps getting into deeper and deeper trouble. A nutty bad guy who is using the cops. The two sub stories make the viewer thinks this is going to get good. Of course the wise Stone starts to figure out the con with the help of Keller. The usual 70's climax, but still entertaining. Well acted and directed. 7 stars.

****SPOILERS****Going to the annual drug, legal not illegal, convention in San Francisco drug salesman Russ Renkin, William Windom, picks or was picked up by wayward lassie Lita Brewer,Jo Ann Harris, who drove her to her boathouse on the bay only to have her in a fit of anger try to scratch the shocked man's eyes out. Trying to defend himself Russ knocks Jo Ann flat on her pretty butt putting her temporarily to sleep. It's just then that Jo Ann's boyfriend biker Bret Wilson, played by real life rough & tumble Hell's Angel Steve Oliver, shows up with Russ fleeing from the scene. Seeing Jo Ann recovering from her fall Bret sees his golden opportunity to whack her, with an empty flower pot, and make it look like Russ murdered her.

It turns out that Jo Ann had discovered that the macho and manly Bert isn't half the man, he only shoots blanks, he claims to be. And if that ever got out to the public he'll be the laughing stock of all the biker gangs in the Frisco Bay area! Much less his act as being macho man #1 will become the joke, especially among the women, of the year with him having to leave the city before sundown to avoid any farther embarrassment! Framing poor Russ who he mistakes, on a name on a pact of matches Russ left at the scene, for drug salesmen Tom Garver, Robert Hogan, Bret feels that his secret of being sterile or impotent would have died with Jo Ann with Russ, at first mistaken for Tom, taking the rap for her murder!

***SPOILERS*** With hot shot SFPD cops Det. Let. Mike Stone, Karl Malden, and his partner Inspt. Steve Keller, Michael Douglas, on the case Bert playing the Innocent eye witness to Jo Ann's murder soon falls completely apart. Realizing that he not Russ murdered Jo Ann the two policemen had not only to prevent Russ, who was also being blackmailed by Bert,from doing something stupid like, on being on a guilt trip, jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge or, in an act of revenge, blowing Bert's, the man who framed him, brains out! We all see as if we didn't know already that Russ didn't have in in him to kill anybody he just didn't have the heart to pull the trigger on Bert. But as for Bert who by now was exposed as Jo Ann's murderer he still, after overcoming an earlier suicide attempt on his part, had his sense of self preservation which made it that much easier for him, in trying to save himself from drowning, to be captured and taken alive.