Robert Culp as a down-on-his-luck actor who has moved into a new apartment with his wife. They have a new phone number. Robert Culp staggers to answer the phone one morning. A kidnapper demands $50 thousand for the return of the daughter he doesn't have.
Culp realizes the call was meant for the doctor who had the number before them. He calls the doctor's answering service and they put him through. Culp should have worked out what he would say because it got garbled and the doctor (Eddie Albert) thought he was the kidnapper. The phone fell off the nightstand and they were disconnected before he could explain.
Culp could have called back, but his drunken harpy wife (Angie Dickenson) needles him into running with it and collecting the ransom himself.
"I'M SICK OF THIS DAMNED EMASCULATION ACT OF YOURS," Culp advises her. But he does what she wants.
What could possibly go wrong?
Eddie Albert drives a Mercedes without whiplash restraints. Cars didn't age well back then so we know Culp and his wife are struggling because they have a ten-year-old convertible.
72 minutes.
IMDb says there were two remakes of this in India.
Free on a streaming channel called Movieland TV, or HERE on YouTube.
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