An Alfred Hitchcock's manner topic and atmosphere, with a wife suspecting her husband to plot against her with murder, at least that's what it seems to be at first glance. A plot among a couple, that's the scheme which you are dealing with, providing some good turns and twists. It's one more time very difficult to bear this awful music score, which is the main hole in this TV show.
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The unreliable narrator
lor_28 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
A rather ingenious story depends on the literary device of "the unreliable narrator", giving this short play a delightful surprise ending.
Lilli Palmer spends the show explaining to a police detective how her husband has gone crazy and is planning to kill her this very night. He's a comic strip creator for the newspaper and she tells the cop in flashbacks how he and his partner became wildly successful with the violent comic Buzz O'Keefe. This resulted in hubby becoming overworked and neglecting his wife, while the partner became thrust into keeping her company and the two of them fell in love.
To hear Lilli tell it, the husband has become a madman, so entwined with the activities of his comic strip hero that he is planning to kill the leading lady of the strip, who was modeled after Lilii, and then do away with Lilli just as her fictional counterpart is gruesomely destroyed with acid.
The showdown comes, but the detective has been cleverly examining the situation and deduces that Lilli is the one planning murder, expecting to be able to claim self-defense, using the detective as her witness.
It's a well-written yarn, punctuated by the use of the comic strip and readers' reactions to it. Everything makes perfect sense when we realize that the depiction of her husband (and his madness) is simply from Lilli's corrupt point-of-view.
Lilli Palmer spends the show explaining to a police detective how her husband has gone crazy and is planning to kill her this very night. He's a comic strip creator for the newspaper and she tells the cop in flashbacks how he and his partner became wildly successful with the violent comic Buzz O'Keefe. This resulted in hubby becoming overworked and neglecting his wife, while the partner became thrust into keeping her company and the two of them fell in love.
To hear Lilli tell it, the husband has become a madman, so entwined with the activities of his comic strip hero that he is planning to kill the leading lady of the strip, who was modeled after Lilii, and then do away with Lilli just as her fictional counterpart is gruesomely destroyed with acid.
The showdown comes, but the detective has been cleverly examining the situation and deduces that Lilli is the one planning murder, expecting to be able to claim self-defense, using the detective as her witness.
It's a well-written yarn, punctuated by the use of the comic strip and readers' reactions to it. Everything makes perfect sense when we realize that the depiction of her husband (and his madness) is simply from Lilli's corrupt point-of-view.
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