Review of Salvage

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Salvage (1955)
Season 1, Episode 6
8/10
Excellent work by Gates and Barry
18 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Spoilers.

The story is very well-done. Almost too heavily plotted in the first three minutes but you get into it very well. Miss. Gates is beautiful to look at and highly appealing in her role as a suicidal gangster-girlfriend. Her great character is the central. In comes Mr. Barry as the man who horribly wants to kill this beauty for obviously causing his brother's death.

This episode is almost all brilliantly done and it's ending is not known until just 30 seconds before its climax. An unusual filmed shot of Gates being shot. OTOH it is a total shame that a pretty girl gets murdered and the climax should have had Gates nearly get murdered by Barry but him deciding that he has grown to easily love her and the Two live-on together for good.

About Hitch's opening and closing narrations. I have seen them over the years and they are just filler space and I hardly care about them. The stories always matter more than them.
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