The Babysitter

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• 1969
• 1 hr 15 mins
• Suspense, Drama

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Babysitter Candy Wilson (Patricia Wymer) is driven home by assistant district attorney George Maxwell (George E. Cary) after she has been sitting with the baby of George and his wife, Edith Maxwell (Ann Bellamy), who have been playing bridge. At a drive-in restaurant Candy tries to "turn him on", succeeds and observes, "You and your wife aren't making it, are you?" George has been assigned to prosecute Laurence Mackey (Robert Tessier), accused killer of Doris (Ruth Nooman) in a brutal gang slaying. Marckey's girl friend Julie Freeman (Cathy Williams)plans to get him off by getting evidence on Maxwell's lesbian daughter Joan (Sheri Jackson). But she runs on to something bigger: Maxwell's affair with Candy, trails them everywhere and gets incriminating pictures. Summoned to Julie's beach pad, Maxwell sees the pictures and Juie says she will send them to his boss, district attorney Raymond Willas (Ken Hooker) and to his wife if Maxwell doesn't drop the case against Mackey. He gives her no answer. Instead, he calls Candy and both realize their affair must be ended. Candy gets Richard (Paul Wilmuth) and a friend to pay a visit to Julie, where they threaten her with disfigurement, end up cutting her hair and strewing her pad with "pot" after she devulges the hiding place of the negatives which Candy destroys. Cany calls the police and they bust bad-hair-day Julie. Next day, the newspapers tall of the conviction of Mackey and laud Maxwell for his dramatic prosecution. Maxwell write a resignation letter to his boss and the next morning arrives just as Willas is looking over the special delivery photographs taken by Julie. He refuses to accept Maxwell's resignation and advises him to hurry home and intercept the postman before Edith sees the pictures, but he is too late as Edith is already looking over the pictures. Instead of the blowup he expects, Edith says, "Maybe we do play too much bridge." And at a teen-age hangout where kids are dancing to "Cathy's Theme", Candy smiles at a new acquaintance, a boy about her own age, and tells him "You really turn me on."