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There is another version of this movie made a few years earlier


I cannot remember the name nor the stars, but the plot was essentially the same. I have been trying to find the title and compare the two movies. Does anyone remember the other movie?

Salt Dog

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There was another movie done, I did see it, but I cannot remember the name as well. It was not as good as the original (1976) as I recall and I even though the plot was the same, the characters jobs and roles, differed. I think the ending was different in the remake as well. I love this movie and saw it when I was 10 years old. It scared me to death at the end when the husband went to verify his wife was actually dead and found out that she may still be alive...not. Very cool movie.
Cindy, VA Beach

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One of My Wives is Missing was based on the Robert Thomas novel Trap for a Single Man.
The book had previously been filmed for TV in 1970 as Honeymoon with a Stranger and would be remade in 1984 as Vanishing Act

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=36459

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Thanks for that info, superman1! Both of those TV movies are currently on YouTube for anyone who's curious -- just type the title into the YouTube search bar. Both have all-star casts.

Honeymoon with a Stranger (they say it's from 1969, just seven years before OoMWIM) has a middle-aged husband disappearing, on his honeymoon in Spain. It stars Janet Leigh as the wife and Rossano Brazzi as the cop.

Vanishing Act (they say 1986, just ten years after OoMWIM) stars Mike Farrell, Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder, and Fred Gwynne. Judging by the synopsis, it's fairly similar to One of My Wives.

Back then, of course, just about everything on TV was seen once (or twice, counting summer reruns) and then disappeared. Some series (e.g., I Love Lucy) were syndicated, but the TV movies didn't fit that five-days-a-week system. So apparently, instead of re-showing an "old" TV movie, they'd remake it with a different title and different actors, and people would watch the "new" movie. Some of them might think it seemed kinda familiar, but by then they'd already watched it and made the Nielsen Ratings happy.

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