Review of The Older Sister

The Lizzie Borden notorious case were exploited by movie industry on several times, due they never found the real murder committed in 1892, thus the macabre roots of Alfred Hitchcock wisely introducing the episode with an Axe at his own hands creating a fear atmosphere, he explains that will approach the case one year ahead of the trial, which Lizzie Borden (Carmen Mathews) was claimed not guilty, the unsettled Emma Borden (Joan Loring) the young sister of Lizzie wants leaves the house afraid his old sister, although sudden appears a nagging reporter Nell Cutts (Polly Howles) overstress an interview from Lizzie, Emma is worries about to getting late on train station, when she gets rid of the annoying reporter, however show up his old sister Lizzy, she tries explains all about the reporter, then Lizzy Borden takes a hidden axe and shows to Emma, here Hitch implies his own version of the double murders, a psychological study of a sick mind, there's no doubt about who kill the father and the stepmother, plainly in that time the forensic procedures wasn't still proper developed yet, intriguing episode!!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5