The Trains of Silence

I randomly came across this on YouTube. I love psychological thrillers. I've never seen one that made me feel unsettled. I'm the same person who has the tolerance for UK crime dramas and some Scandinavian noir, so programs that contain disturbing elements, as long as there's mystery involved and the characters are fascinating, don't bother me. However, I found "The Trains of Silence" to be the weirdest thing I've watched in a really long time. It was bizarre and made no sense. I was perplexed the whole time. I had to make myself watch it to the end because my interest was waning (looking back, I should've just turned it off and watched something else because it was giving me the creeps). The acting was also pretty bad. Fred Girard (Jeffrey Hunter) is a geologist who lives in Vancouver, Canada. He goes to the US to visit a friend from college, Wolfe Hastings (Lloyd Bochner). Unbeknownst to Fred, Wolfe has been a recluse for years. Both his assistant Mark Wilton (Warren Stevens) and secretary Lee Anne Wickheimer (Tippi Hedren) do everything in their power to keep Fred away from Wolfe, and Fred almost gets killed trying to see him. The plot of this episode sounds so silly now that I've typed it out. I'm sure it looked just as ridiculous on paper back in 1965 as it does now on a computer or cell phone screen, so why people used the money and resources to make it into a TV episode is beyond me. I honestly have no desire to watch anything else from Kraft Suspense Theatre. I know you can't judge an anthology series based on 1 episode, but I can tell it's not on the same level as Alfred Hitchcock or Twilight Zone. This just wasn't my cup of tea.