It's ironic that the reporter played by Polly Powles is a complete hatchet face, an intrusive battleaxe barn stormer who seems like the type to swing from chandeliers as she breaks barglasses in alignment with Carrie Nation. The way that she storms into the home of Lizzie Borden (Carmen Matthews) and her younger sister Joan Loring a year after the murder makes her despicable from the start. But one question does arise when she talks to Loring. Was Lizzie the guilty one?
Enjoyable if not entirely believable variation of the famous crime, with amusing performances by the all women cast emoting as if they were playing to the third balcony. This gives the thought to what Hitchcock could have done with a full length film about the Borden tragedy, but he only told fictional stories, or at least fictionalized variations of stories he read about, changing the names and major details. The music is very eerie, giving a "Psycho" feeling to the mood. I wouldn't call this one a great episode but it is a lot of fun, that is once your anger over the nasty insensitive Rowles subsides.
Enjoyable if not entirely believable variation of the famous crime, with amusing performances by the all women cast emoting as if they were playing to the third balcony. This gives the thought to what Hitchcock could have done with a full length film about the Borden tragedy, but he only told fictional stories, or at least fictionalized variations of stories he read about, changing the names and major details. The music is very eerie, giving a "Psycho" feeling to the mood. I wouldn't call this one a great episode but it is a lot of fun, that is once your anger over the nasty insensitive Rowles subsides.