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2.6??
planktonrules18 February 2024
Tonight I watched several of Joan Crawford's TV appearances from the 1950s and was shocked at how low the scores were for all of the episodes....as if someone or a group of people dislike Crawford and have bombarded the episodes with 1s. In this case, the episode has 130 1s and the second most common score (only seven of them) was a 10! Clearly some folks don't like Joan.

This episode is set in New York as well as some British colonial setting in Asia (perhaps Singapore). A traveler stops at a home in search of lodging. At first the owner is nasty but soon relents when he learns the traveler has whiskey! Over the course of the evening, he watches the man of the house act cruelly and abusively...and his poor wife is stuck with the jerk. What's next? See the episode.

I didn't love this one...the story was odd and occasionally Crawford did seem to overact a bit. But it still is very watchable and the 2.6 just seems bizarre.
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1/10
When Mommy Dearest met Alfred the Butler.
mark.waltz3 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
A truly messy, convoluted and confusing script make this anthology show episode perplexing among the handful of TV shows that Joan Crawford did. In the opening scene, she's at a museum where she runs into old acquaintance Tom Helmore and invites him to a party, and then the action apparently flashbacks 2 years before in Singapore where Crawford and husband Robert Douglas are living unhappily when Helmore shows up. Here, she's revealed to be mute, only gaining her voice back when she falls down a flight of stairs after her abusive husband accuses her of trying to kill him.

It's obvious that there were several other people with motives, but there would be an easier way to kill someone then taking a snake above their bed hoping that when it falls it will bite him. Alan Napier ("Batman") is the local law in Singapore investigating the cobra incident. Eye rollingly bad, laughable and beyond comprehension. Only worth watching for conference fans because it is so short. Nothing about her part indicates any reason for comfort to have taken it outside of the desperation to work.
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