Party Line

This film begins with a young woman by the name of "Angelina" (Greta Blackburn) seducing a married man through a 900-party line and, after bringing him to her home, having her brother "Seth" (Leif Garrett) kill him with a straight-edge razor. The scene then shifts to a local Los Angeles police station with a vice detective known simply as "Dan" (Richard Hatch) tailing a drug dealer only to discover that his suspect has had his throat cut in the same manner as a couple of earlier homicides. Being rather short-handed, his supervisor "Captain Barnes" (Richard Roundtree) subsequently transfers Dan from vice to homicide and assigns him to investigate the case. Along with that, Captain Barnes also assigns a female DA assistant named "Stacy" (Shawn Weatherly) to work with Dan as his partner. The problem, however, is that there are very few clues to work with and the District Attorney named "Henry" (James O'Sullivan) is looking for an excuse to fire Dan for several issues that occurred between them in the past. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this film suffered from a lack of suspense, weak acting and bad chemistry between the main characters overall. That being said, while I don't consider this to be a terribly bad film necessarily, it just didn't impress me all that much, and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.