Robert Horton seems to have shown up in a fair number of these Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes; this was his third in the second season and fourth overall.
The resolution to this story is right there in the title, but not in a way one might expect. The misdirection of the episode occurs when Judge Condon (Herbert Marshall) opens a bottle of wine unseen by Wallace Donaldson (Robert Horton), the man who came by to run off with the judge's wife (Jarma Lewis). The hook for the viewer is an expectation that the wine is poisoned, but oddly, both men drink from the same bottle. The payoff here is especially ironic for all the parties involved; the judge in all his scheming probably didn't expect to be shot for his trouble, while Grace Condon saw her boyfriend as a spineless coward. Too bad, because now he's going away for murder, over a perfectly fine bottle of sherry.
The resolution to this story is right there in the title, but not in a way one might expect. The misdirection of the episode occurs when Judge Condon (Herbert Marshall) opens a bottle of wine unseen by Wallace Donaldson (Robert Horton), the man who came by to run off with the judge's wife (Jarma Lewis). The hook for the viewer is an expectation that the wine is poisoned, but oddly, both men drink from the same bottle. The payoff here is especially ironic for all the parties involved; the judge in all his scheming probably didn't expect to be shot for his trouble, while Grace Condon saw her boyfriend as a spineless coward. Too bad, because now he's going away for murder, over a perfectly fine bottle of sherry.