Interesting little film more about old age than anything else. The intrigue is not that exciting, just unusual, I admit, but I was careful about Robinson 's performance, sometimes foreseeing what he will do four years later in Richard Fleischer's SOYLENT GREEN. This stuff was made bt Walter Grauman, a vet TV director, a very prolific one. This is not a comedy, nor a thriller, but a kind of Hitchcock like scheme about an old man witness of his best friend murder and who is not believed by anyone about what he saw. It is predictable and for this reason a bit boring. The good thing is that this TV movie is gloomy, very downbeat, as many early seventies features.; my favourite period. That's precisely for this reason that I say only Edward G Robinson is worth in this poignant role. Painful ending.
Review of The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
