Fairly strong sequence of three in a row:
1.9
AH is playing slots and wins...three oranges come out of the chute. Our episode is about a gambler who is in over his head and looking for a way to skip town. He responds to an ad asking for an English companion to drive to San Francisco with him. He adopts a phony British accent, which sounds quite authentic as he is played by Peter Lawford (his fake American accent narrates). Very British episode with a twist ending, some hints along the way.
BTW, here's Lawford on What's My Line? Note the host's reference to "your brother-in-law, Senator Jack."
1.10
AH directs this interesting change of pace episode. After all, the show can't all be twist endings every week.
Tom Ewell is a rich guy with a butler and, apparently, an identical double. He tells about half the story in flashbacks. We wait for an explanation, half expecting to be disappointed. In these cases, I usually don’t want it to make perfect sense.
Tom Ewell is a rich guy with a butler and, apparently, an identical double. He tells about half the story in flashbacks. We wait for an explanation, half expecting to be disappointed. In these cases, I usually don’t want it to make perfect sense.
This story was later made into the film The Man Who Haunted Himself starring Roger Moore.
1.11
We move to a working class (mostly ethnic) setting, and our hero is a man who owns a grocery shop and lives upstairs. His wife makes him scrapple for dinner. A female neighbor looks like she’s been beaten by her husband. They hear them scuffle through the open windows.
Wife: “He’s beating her.”
Protagonist: (shrugs) “Some people like to fight.”
The theme has something in common with Rear Window (released the previous year) about whether to stick your nose into your neighbors' business if you think the business might be murder.
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