This is a failed pilot from Gene Roddenbery the creator of Star Trek. After the cancellation of Star Trek Roddenberry struggled with getting another TV series launched. One of his ideas was to do a supernatural series with two protagonists taking on devils and demons and whatever each week. This show was basically an update of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character with Robert Culp playing a paranormal investigator modeled on Holmes and Gig Young in the Dr. Watson part.
The TV pilot is generally diverting stuff mostly due to the cast and the director Clive Donner doing their best to move things along. Anyway the plot is about the heir to a British family being menaced by some kind of demon who looks a lot like one of Star Trek's aliens aka kind of phony.
There is an extended sequence with Gig Young being hit on by a group of sexy women which seems like a hold over from Roddenberry's film Pretty Maids All in a Row which probably could have been cut out of the script as it is not sexy or funny.
Well anyway the film ends with one of those sacrifice the innocent victims on the alter of evil conventionally located under neath the British family's estate.
I watched the European cut of this film which includes female nudity towards the end of the film. Never ones to miss a buck, Hollywood studios would frequently release their TV films as actual films and insert some salacious stuff in them for the European audiences.
The running time is 98 minutes.
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