"The Perfect Crime" is an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" where John sits down with Charles (James Gregory and Vincent Price) and Charles regales him with the story of a murdered he helped send to his Maker. However, it turns out Charles is NOT the genius private detective he fancies himself to be, as John knows that the man in question was, in fact, innocent! Needless to say, Charles does not handle this information well!
There are two problems with this episode, though the acting is quite good. First, it is VERY talky and Charles and John talk and talk and talk through most of the episode. This is a minor issue. But the big problem is the network or sponsors' insistence that evil MUST be punished, so after presenting a seemingly perfect crime, Hitchcock does an epilogue where he explains how the man WAS captured and prosecuted...though there is zero indication of this in the episode itself. It really is frustrating to watch. Although I usually love Hitchcock's little intros and epilogues, in cases of murderers, he would often explain that the audience didn't see it in the story, but the killer was caught and punished...which is REALLY annoying and essentially ruins the episode. Without this stupid ending, I might have scored this one a 7...it really ruins an otherwise decent episode.
There are two problems with this episode, though the acting is quite good. First, it is VERY talky and Charles and John talk and talk and talk through most of the episode. This is a minor issue. But the big problem is the network or sponsors' insistence that evil MUST be punished, so after presenting a seemingly perfect crime, Hitchcock does an epilogue where he explains how the man WAS captured and prosecuted...though there is zero indication of this in the episode itself. It really is frustrating to watch. Although I usually love Hitchcock's little intros and epilogues, in cases of murderers, he would often explain that the audience didn't see it in the story, but the killer was caught and punished...which is REALLY annoying and essentially ruins the episode. Without this stupid ending, I might have scored this one a 7...it really ruins an otherwise decent episode.