Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a decision: this evening he will take a rifle and shoot and kill his wife, their three children and then himself.

• Utopia
• Hal Holbrook
• Louise Fletcher
• Peter Armstrong
• Elizabeth Berridge
• José Ferrer
• Viveca Lindfors
• Alisha Fontaine
• Steve Austin