Bad Ronald

"Bad" Ronald (Scott Jacoby) has been in hiding in a secret room ever since going off the deep end and killing a teenaged girl who'd made fun of him. Ronald's mother (Kim Hunter) helps her son to remain hidden, even when the house in which he is sequestered is rented by a family. As luck would have ...more

This amusing made-for-TV thriller, based on John Holbrook Vance's novel, tells the story of a high-school outcast (Scott Jacoby) who accidentally murders a young girl for teasing him. Jacoby's over-protective mother (Kim Hunter) is concerned about his future, so she decides to hide him from the police by constructing a secret walled-up room in the house. Jacoby's hiding-place goes undetected and everyone thinks he ran away, but trouble brews when Hunter dies during gall-bladder surgery and the ...more