Vintage Hitchcock, featuring murder with a light touch and a perfect cast. It's also a good chance to catch two of the quirkier actors around—Jones and Lloyd. Between them, they manage more droll humor than is in the script.
Harry (Jones) is a dull-as-cement husband who jumps at the chance to help coy blonde neighbor (Baxley), even when it means carrying a dead man out of her apartment. So what's going on here since everyone seems so ordinary and incapable of murder.
Those scenes with Jones and Lloyd are delicious. As a cop, Lloyd's eyes roll around more than a bowling ball on Saturday night. The real mystery is what police department he could possibly represent. At the same time, Bassett hound Jones almost drools over Baxley as she wraps him around her little finger. Add the super-strong Virginia Gregg as Jones's long- suffering wife, and we've got a cast that could hold audience interest by reading the proverbial phone book.
With a better upshot, this could be classic Hitchcock. But in my book, there's one twist too many and one that's not very well executed (were the director & the writer communicating?). Otherwise, it's a neat mix of droll humor and lightweight suspense.
Harry (Jones) is a dull-as-cement husband who jumps at the chance to help coy blonde neighbor (Baxley), even when it means carrying a dead man out of her apartment. So what's going on here since everyone seems so ordinary and incapable of murder.
Those scenes with Jones and Lloyd are delicious. As a cop, Lloyd's eyes roll around more than a bowling ball on Saturday night. The real mystery is what police department he could possibly represent. At the same time, Bassett hound Jones almost drools over Baxley as she wraps him around her little finger. Add the super-strong Virginia Gregg as Jones's long- suffering wife, and we've got a cast that could hold audience interest by reading the proverbial phone book.
With a better upshot, this could be classic Hitchcock. But in my book, there's one twist too many and one that's not very well executed (were the director & the writer communicating?). Otherwise, it's a neat mix of droll humor and lightweight suspense.