Am I watching the right show?
Is this Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Insight?
Unwanted boy and sad old wealthy man are united by circumstances for a happy ending. It is very difficult to believe that his impromptu and informal adoption at a police station would ever actually be allowed. "Run along, we'll take care of the legal formalities, no problem."
Sure thing. It helps a bit that the amnesiac is apparently correctly identified as a well known local prominent and affluent citizen of good character and the setting is a small town not the big city.
The missing twist here seems to be that when the juvenile services officer arrives it doesn't turn out that the helpful sergeant has just turned the unfortunate lad over to a known sex offender or serial killer. Boys Town suddenly becomes M.
That it is a nice spot for the great Claude Rains is some compensation for the contrived slop I suppose, as was the comic gambling priest a few episodes before. But we do have Rains in And So Died Riabouchinska in season one to restore the balance in Rains' favor.
Is this Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Insight?
Unwanted boy and sad old wealthy man are united by circumstances for a happy ending. It is very difficult to believe that his impromptu and informal adoption at a police station would ever actually be allowed. "Run along, we'll take care of the legal formalities, no problem."
Sure thing. It helps a bit that the amnesiac is apparently correctly identified as a well known local prominent and affluent citizen of good character and the setting is a small town not the big city.
The missing twist here seems to be that when the juvenile services officer arrives it doesn't turn out that the helpful sergeant has just turned the unfortunate lad over to a known sex offender or serial killer. Boys Town suddenly becomes M.
That it is a nice spot for the great Claude Rains is some compensation for the contrived slop I suppose, as was the comic gambling priest a few episodes before. But we do have Rains in And So Died Riabouchinska in season one to restore the balance in Rains' favor.