This follow-up to the same year's "The Letters" is equally starry in its cast of fan favorites, if not as glossy as the Stanwyck/Nielsen/Merrill segment of the previous film. Once again, veteran actor Henry Jones is the friendly neighborhood postman who basically repeats his same speech from the previous film and adds new narration to introduce the three segments.
There's wrongly accused convict Martin Sheen rejecting fiancee Belinda Montgomery after being sent to prison, neglected wife June Allyson cheating on businessman husband Robert Sterling with the sweet Barry Sullivan, and hard-working Ken Berry deciding he wants to meet a rich girl and mistaking classy Juliet Mills for someone with money. Letters to one of the parties end up in the same plane crash and are discovered then sent.
The setups are fine but certainly not as well developed with the Allyson/Sullivan segment by far the best. It's obvious that the writers were stretching for ideas and that for this to make it as a weekly series would take a lot better writing and ideas than what is presented here. The Aaron Spelling gloss shows through but the full execution has definite issues.
I found the Sheen episode rather disturbing because it's obviously not him stalking the victim he was accused of robbing and it's not properly resolved. The Berry segment is rather ridiculous in its set-up but in spite of the infidelity of June Allyson, hers is the most romantic and sweet, and the only one that gave me any sense of caring about how it was tied up.
There's wrongly accused convict Martin Sheen rejecting fiancee Belinda Montgomery after being sent to prison, neglected wife June Allyson cheating on businessman husband Robert Sterling with the sweet Barry Sullivan, and hard-working Ken Berry deciding he wants to meet a rich girl and mistaking classy Juliet Mills for someone with money. Letters to one of the parties end up in the same plane crash and are discovered then sent.
The setups are fine but certainly not as well developed with the Allyson/Sullivan segment by far the best. It's obvious that the writers were stretching for ideas and that for this to make it as a weekly series would take a lot better writing and ideas than what is presented here. The Aaron Spelling gloss shows through but the full execution has definite issues.
I found the Sheen episode rather disturbing because it's obviously not him stalking the victim he was accused of robbing and it's not properly resolved. The Berry segment is rather ridiculous in its set-up but in spite of the infidelity of June Allyson, hers is the most romantic and sweet, and the only one that gave me any sense of caring about how it was tied up.
