Columnist Dick Powell is tired of the frivolous news stories he's writing on inconsequential subjects and writes a story on a huge fire where he saw supposedly brave men acting in a panicked manner. Fellow columnist Dorothy Malone comes along and tells him that he's going to regret such actions as that's not what his readers want. He begins to receive some mysterious letters and while out on assignment finds himself confronted by whom he believes is the writer. This results in a very eerie situation that makes him feel as if he is in danger, teaching him a grave lesson.
A moral lesson is attempted in this Four Star Playhouse episode that really takes its time in getting underway after the scathing story he writes in the first scene. The highlight comes when he goes to visit bubble dancer Claire Carleton, a scene that isn't really even part of the main story. Carlton is indeed as bubbly as the bubbles she dances with and lightens up the macabre plot line. When Powell is by himself, standing in a foggy, dark setting, it changes it seem to be almost like something out of one of the early film noir he had done, or even an old horror movie. The problem is that this has so many different moods that it changes every few minutes, and that becomes frustrating after a while.
A moral lesson is attempted in this Four Star Playhouse episode that really takes its time in getting underway after the scathing story he writes in the first scene. The highlight comes when he goes to visit bubble dancer Claire Carleton, a scene that isn't really even part of the main story. Carlton is indeed as bubbly as the bubbles she dances with and lightens up the macabre plot line. When Powell is by himself, standing in a foggy, dark setting, it changes it seem to be almost like something out of one of the early film noir he had done, or even an old horror movie. The problem is that this has so many different moods that it changes every few minutes, and that becomes frustrating after a while.