Review of The Derelicts

Alfred Hitchcock opens the episode as Magician at lunch time when he takes a look on the sandwich he saw a rabbit meat and says "If I wanted rabbit in my lunch I would take out of my own hat", thereafter the odd episode starts with a morbid story about a business man Ralph Cowell (Philip Reed) who is in trouble with his stunning blonde wife Herta (Peggy Knudsen) which he seemingly can't afford in so expensive lifestyle, when the phone rings his hidden partner Alfred J. Sloane (Cyril Delevanti) asking for a nighttime meeting at main park, there he charges his share of the secret partnership of 10.000 bucks plus 50% of the profits, Ralph tries postpone in one year the payment, the old man didn't agree and threaten deliver the promissory note to his lawyers, Ralph trapped on a dead end kills Sloane by throttling, afterwards taken his valet thinking that the promissory note was there, however Sloane hidden it on the cigarette case that was dropped in the moment of murder, guess who witnessed the whole thing? Yeah the ironic homeless Peter J. Goodfellow (Robert Newton) with his hard British accent, also dully escorted by his mate the shorty gambler Fenton Sanks (Johnny Silver), hereinafter Ralph was blackmailed to pay mere 1.000 bucks a month, worst they moved to the apartment's couple for a while, Herta sees such thing simply outrageous and warns Ralph that says that they are a distant cousins and in a week or so they will went away, fabulous ending, wait and see by yourself!!

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First watch: 2021 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.