EDITOR’S NOTE: Originally airing on February 9, 1974 as an ABC Suspense Movie of the Week, The Elevator was on the CBS Late Movie on February 24 and October 27, 1975.

Directed by Jerry Jameson (Trapped on the 37th Floor, Hotline, Secret Night Caller) and written by David Ketchum (Agent 13 from Get Smart; he also wrote ten episodes of Happy Days and The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse) Rhonda Blecker and Bruce Sheeley, The Elevator is a unique film that finds an elevator stuck with the entire cast inside.

The Elevator features a stellar cast, including Eddie Holcomb (James Farentino, Dead and Buried), a hitman on the run from his last contract; Marvin Ellis (Roddy McDowall, always perfect), the building’s leasing agent; Dr. Reynolds (Craig Stevens, The Deadly Mantis) and his wife Edith (Teresa Wright, Shadow of a Doubt) and his mistress, Wendy Thompson (Arlene Golonka, who played characters named Millie on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.); Amanda Kenyon (old Hollywood represented by Myrna Loy) and young rich kid Robert Peters (Barry Livingston, Ernie Douglas himself), all trapped inside the tiny elevator that could drop at any minute.

While Eddie’s claustrophobia gets to him, Pete Howarth (Don Stroud, Bloody Mama) and Irene Turner (Carol Lynley, The Poseidon Adventure) wait outside in the getaway car. It all gets tense — I mean, would you like to be inside an elevator for a few hours? — and it is sort of a mini-disaster movie.

You can watch this on YouTube.