This excellent variation on the movie "Detour" has Peter Lawford star as Charlie Raymond, a gambler who has to get out of the city fast!!! - for obvious reasons!!! He answers an ad in the paper advertising for a fellow Londoner to take a car trip to San Francisco and meets Walker Hendricks (John Williams who was memorable as the police officer in "Dial M for Murder").
For Charlie the trip is a complete bore, Walker wants to talk incessantly about London, what pub was on which corner, who was the waiter in what restaurant etc and even though Walker seems as British as the Queen things just don't add up. Charley finds out when they stop overnight and he sees Walker handle a wad of money and later when he looks into the suitcase he finds papers, birth certificates etc. He decides that he and not Walker is going to be the long lost heir and sets about covering all his bases, even visiting an old relative of the heir so he can find out some back ground information. The first thing to do is to get rid of Walker and he does, on a lonely road in Nevada but being an "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" he outsmarts himself and the end is a shot of his puzzled face - the scheme was a long shot but with his luck it just didn't pay off!!!
Also in the cast is Robert Warwick, once a matinée idol during movie's earliest days but now playing a grim, older detective.
For Charlie the trip is a complete bore, Walker wants to talk incessantly about London, what pub was on which corner, who was the waiter in what restaurant etc and even though Walker seems as British as the Queen things just don't add up. Charley finds out when they stop overnight and he sees Walker handle a wad of money and later when he looks into the suitcase he finds papers, birth certificates etc. He decides that he and not Walker is going to be the long lost heir and sets about covering all his bases, even visiting an old relative of the heir so he can find out some back ground information. The first thing to do is to get rid of Walker and he does, on a lonely road in Nevada but being an "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" he outsmarts himself and the end is a shot of his puzzled face - the scheme was a long shot but with his luck it just didn't pay off!!!
Also in the cast is Robert Warwick, once a matinée idol during movie's earliest days but now playing a grim, older detective.