Final Performance

Episode aired Jan 18, 1965
48m

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Sharon Farrell and Franchot Tone in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)

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Cliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced he... Read allCliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced her. What's more, his car won't start, and it's towed to a repair shop. While he waits for t... Read allCliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced her. What's more, his car won't start, and it's towed to a repair shop. While he waits for the car, Cliff gets a room at the hotel, run by Rudolph Bitzner - a former vaudevillian, wi... Read all

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- John Brahm
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- Robert Bloch(story)
- Clyde Ware(teleplay)
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Cliff's driving when a young woman flags him down and asks for a ride. He soon has trouble - both legal and automotive, when they're stopped by the police and she lies, and says he forced her. What's more, his car won't start, and it's towed to a repair shop. While he waits for the car, Cliff gets a room at the hotel, run by Rudolph Bitzner - a former vaudevillian, with a specialty act with his only employee, Rosie. She pleads with Cliff to help her escape from Rudolph, who plans to marry her as soon as she becomes 18. There's a lot about Rudolph, and the relationship between the two, which Cliff isn't aware of, but he should, because it'll soon be one of their last performances. —Seriously edited by Rob

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Sharon Farrell and Roger Perry had one other collaboration 12 months earlier in the 'Onward and Upward' episode of the 'Arrest and Trial' TV series.

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Shades of Psycho...

Driving down a lonely stretch of highway......checking into an isolated motel......a mentally unbalanced proprietor......an unexpected murder......an innocent victim......"Final Performance" may be Psycho's distant cousin, but the connecting elements are there.

Franchot Tone, an actor from Hollywood's Golden Years, has an apparent field day portraying the crazed proprietor of a rustic motel (the cabin variety) located somewhere in rural California. Actress Sharon Farrell is perfectly cast as an emotionally distressed young soul who is Tone's "white slave." She gains the audience's empathy within the first seconds of her screen time, and (we) hope that she attains her freedom by episode's end. If you haven't already read the other comment writer's "spoiler" summary or this web site's synopsis, you'll be surprised at what is disclosed in the final scene of "Final Performance"-- macabre, to say the least. Norman Bates, your Mother's calling......

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