**SPOILERS** very uneven Alfred Hitchcock Presdents episode that has Beatrice Straight as Ida Blythe trying to play it straight nd keep herself from cracking up with the off the wall material she's got in the script. And in this case comes out looking ridicules as she's cut off from all communications in a country house that's in danger of being home invaded by an escaped psycho from a local mental institution for the criminally insane. Cooking up a pot of coffee Ida notices that she has an unexpected guest in her cabin young Madelenie Hall,Fay Spain, who seemed to have slipped in under the radar. With the news that and escaped lunatic is on the loose Ida of course suspect Madeleine as being that person. The very person she's now alone with in her cabin isolated for all humanity!
Claiming that she's the one being stalked by the escaped madman it soon should become apparent to Ida that Madeleine is telling the truth when someone unannounced comes violently knocking on the cabin door! With Ida later coming to the conclusion that Madeleine is the one that the both cops and men in the white suites are looking for she finally lets the person in! And it's then that the sh*t ends up hitting the fan or was it the cabin's antique cuckoo clock!
***SPOILERS*** Check out the creepy and wild eyed "The Man at the Door" Donald Buka who really ends up stealing the show or acting honors here. Buka who was so good as the knife wielding psycho "Shivvy" back in the 1948 movie 'Street with no name" even outdid himself,in the nut case department, here. It was the cuckoo clock that set the guy off in, what he thought, disrespecting him and in revenge he not only ended up doing a number on it but the two helpless women with him in the cabin as well.
Claiming that she's the one being stalked by the escaped madman it soon should become apparent to Ida that Madeleine is telling the truth when someone unannounced comes violently knocking on the cabin door! With Ida later coming to the conclusion that Madeleine is the one that the both cops and men in the white suites are looking for she finally lets the person in! And it's then that the sh*t ends up hitting the fan or was it the cabin's antique cuckoo clock!
***SPOILERS*** Check out the creepy and wild eyed "The Man at the Door" Donald Buka who really ends up stealing the show or acting honors here. Buka who was so good as the knife wielding psycho "Shivvy" back in the 1948 movie 'Street with no name" even outdid himself,in the nut case department, here. It was the cuckoo clock that set the guy off in, what he thought, disrespecting him and in revenge he not only ended up doing a number on it but the two helpless women with him in the cabin as well.