Union mortelle

Treat Williams makes this film an enjoyable nightmare of horrors unspeakable and a thorough dive into the depth of extreme psychopathology. At first it is all bewildering, we have no idea what it is all about, all we have is an outrageous crime of murder with the victim shot many times through and burnt up at his home, a placid man who did no harm to anyone nor had any enemies In the world. The widow gets her insurance money, and the case is closed, but one clerk is not happy about it and refuses to let it drop into oblivion. When the widow's lover remarries after his divorce from a wife he almost beat to death, and his new wife is shot through a number of times, it is enough. There is no evidence, but the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.

Treat Williams plays the self made superhero who thinks he can get away with anything and is consistently superior in all his relationships and enterprises, and he does it admirably. Although you become convinced of his crimes at an early stage, you stay on fascinated by him until his own bitter end. As a documentary film it is on par with the early Henry Hathaway films and other films too realistic to be pleasant, but all the actors are more than excellent. It's a horrible story of a horrible man, but you can't help relishing it thoroughly all through.