1.5.
This is basically The Lady Vanishes (AH says as much in the intro). Hitchcock's daughter Pat stars in an old-fashioned helpless-young-woman role. She's visiting France with her mother, but after returning from fetching medicine for her mom, the hotel staff denies ever having seen either of them. Lots of upper class Brits and shifty Frenchmen here.
So it's all a question of whether the ending makes sense. The explanation turns out to be bat guano crazy, which, IMO, somehow redeems it.
1.6.
The introduction is a bit about the crew trying to kill AH. First line of the episode: “we don’t serve un-escorted ladies at the bar." Ah, the '50s.
This one's a hardboiled story of a desperate woman who had pushed a man into a robbery, leading to his death. Now the man's brother is back but rather than take revenge, they become partners in a dress shop. Nice surprise ending.
This one's a hardboiled story of a desperate woman who had pushed a man into a robbery, leading to his death. Now the man's brother is back but rather than take revenge, they become partners in a dress shop. Nice surprise ending.
Some context to the TV landscape of the time: in the same year, our lead actor Gene Barry also appeared on The Ford Television Theatre, Science Fiction Theatre, Jane Wyman Presents Fireside Theatre, and TV Reader’s Digest.
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