Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Nightmare in 4-D (1957)
Season 2, Episode 16
4/10
Just Too Much to Swallow
12 June 2013
Realizing the low budgets and lack of consistent scripts, I'm generally pretty forgiving of these dramatic forays. This one, however, is lacking badly in just about every aspect. First of all, we are given almost no foundation for the motivations of the characters. We know that Jones is enamored with the sexy actress downstairs. We know he helped her dispose of a body in her apartment. We know the wife is kept knowledgeable of the whole business, so there isn't even anything secretive. So when Norman Lloyd shows up, he leaps to fantastic conclusions for which I was unprepared. The perpetrator had to be one of the principles in the episode. I still don't know what evidence the guy had to reach the conclusion. Other than a good cast, there's not much to work with. I found this one of the weakest of the series.
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