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Caravan to Vaccares [VHS]

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SEDUCED is a mediocre made-for-TVer in which not a single character is worthy of sympathy.

Here, a rich businessman is killed during an apparent botched home invasion. Young D.A. Mike Riordan (Harrison) doesn't know not to mess around with former gal pal Vicki (Shepherd), who's now the geezer's third wife and widow. The beneficiaries, including buxom stepdaughter (Barbeau), greedily grapple for loot as they accuse Vicki and Mike of murder.

The plot is predictable, but not in a Hitchcockian "let the audience in on it" kind of way. Long before we reach this tedious story's denouement the killer's identity is a given, and when the baddie holds a pistol to our unlikeable hero's gut, one hopes that the trigger gets pulled.

It's THAT bad. Save your time and money!


The DVD of "Seduced" is a discontinued item, available in limited numbers.


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.

(5.1) Seduced (TV-1985) - Gregory Harrison/Cybill Shepherd/José Ferrer/Michael C. Gwynne/Ray Wise/Adrienne Barbeau/Mel Ferrer/Barbara Pilavin/William Bryan Curran

Let me say one word - dumb. The characters in this movie do not show too much intelligence. It's a movie about twisted ideas of love, twisted sex and twisted individuals. Why this may sound like it appeals to you in the beginning you will quickly find out that it won't Sam Elliott should take this movie off his resume.

Flashing back and forth from a police interrogation room to events of the past it is not hard to follow but at times it doesn't flow smoothly. It's a murder mystery. A who dunnit. A man is being questioned about the murder of a woman's husband, a woman he wants badly. Did she kill the husband or did he? Or someone else? What happened to the woman now, is she dead? Lots of questions to ask, if you can get through the dumbness and the kinky nympho scenes.

What would you do for another man's wife? What are the limits of your deeds? These are questions that pop into my mind while watching the movie, along with the thought, "dumb".

Although the ending did provide a nice twist the movie was kind of weird over all and a real downer. But peoples lives can be like this I suppose, how pathetic. I just personally feel there are more entertaining ways for me to spend two hours than watch a movie like this, which was dumb.

Cast of this movie: Charlotte Rampling (from Angelheart), David Birney, and Michel Lonsdale (Ronin, The Day of the Jackal, Moonraker). This thriller has few advantages over other movies which base themselves on international intrigue: good locational photography. Faithfully follows the book but stumbles only when Bowman is forced into the ring with the Bull and loses its pace thereafter. Actually, the book had more suspense and thrills (who can ever doubt Alistair MacLean?).

Alistair MacLean's thriller that falters only in the end, is nevertheless a good nostalgic trip for those faithful MacLean's fans. Viewers will sit up and recognize Charlotte Rampling (also in Angelheart), Michel Lonsdale (in Ronin who fixes DeNiro). Good thing about the movie: locational photography (shot in Arles, France among other places). Worth a glance!