The Stepmother | |
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Directed by | Howard L. Avedis |
Screenplay by | Howard L. Avedis |
Produced by | Howard L. Avedis |
Starring |
Alejandro Rey John Anderson Katherine Justice Larry Linville Marlene Schmidt |
Cinematography | Jack Beckett |
Edited by | Ralph J. Hall Tony De Zarraga |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Stepmother is a 1972 suspense film directed and produced by Howard L. Avedis and released theatrically in the U.S. by Crown International Pictures. It stars Alejandro Rey as an architect who murders a client he suspects is having an affair with his wife. [1]
Composer Sammy Fain and lyricist Paul Francis Webster were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Strange Are the Ways of Love." [1]
Leonard Maltin, writing in Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, gave the film one-and-a-half-stars, commenting that, "Rey is okay as anti-hero of this cheapie murder-suspenser in the Hitchcock mold." [2]