Awesome Movie

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A real delight, for the often ugly early 70's decor, the cheesy stereotypes, and the unexpectedly good job done by David Hartman. It is a simple premise, with a few holes. But as the tension and suspense escalate, we see his desperation and worry build nicely. The wife, who is high maintenance, and dumb, is adequate, and by the resolution has the sharp edges knocked off her. Likewise the husband has his very typical bullheadedness beaten out of him, as he really discovers the truth, and his deep love for his new, and highly strung wife. Direction above average, and economic, and very good by the TV movie standards of the decade.

Dorky drip of a sasquatch Ned Bliss (Hartman) designs grotesque modern architecture for a living. He has a beautiful young wife (Walton) and everything seems like it is going his way up until she wants to visit her parents and he says he can't go.The argument they have deteriorates and he ends up hitting her. She leaves without him, tells him he will never see her again and he waits for her to come back but she doesn't.There is real suspense here. Any woman married to a schlub like this guy is always a threat to split...I mean look at him! The host of Good Morning America?! Yikes! Of course it turns out there is a lot more to it and things with her parents are not at all what they appear to be.

Adapted from a pulp novel by Cornell Woolrich, YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN features a rare performance by David Hartman, best known as a long running host of GOOD MORNING America. Truthfully, Hartman's calling as an on-screen talent was probably better suited to host rather than actor; here, he comes across as sort of a poor man's Jimmy Stewart, and never really seems comfortable on screen (though he does seem rather creepy when his character gets angry). Jess Walton is certainly lovely to look at, even if her performance seems a bit wooden (but that could also be due to the rather skimpy lines she's been given to read). One or two twists in this adaptation are Woolrich-worthy, but on the whole, it's probably a bit predictable for a modern audience, and ultimately rates as standard fare for an early 70s TV movie...even with direction by Jeannot Szwarc (a veteran of TV and feature films). All that being said, I'm still glad to have this one in my collection.

This couple had just married (David Hartman and Jessica Jones) and they had an argument and her husband hit her so she slammed the front door and said...... "YOU`LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN". He just tapped her a little but it hurt her deeply so she left and then things started happening. He went to the police to report her missing and they came out and found blood on her coat, that she left in there car where she had slept that night. The cops thought he killed her but she went back to her mothers home. He was climbing the wall looking for her and her mother said she hadn`t seen her but it wasn`t her real mother, she had died and being a builder he noticed the room off center...I would like to see this and other good MOVIES available on video.