The perfect Hitchcock dark comedy, and with one of the best casts to pull it through.
Robert Emhardt plays old, fuddy duddy Professor Rankin, who has a much younger and beautiful wife. The proverbial questions; How? Why? What?? There's trouble brewing... 50s tv star Cara Willliams, who was groomed to be another Lucille Ball at the time, plays the lovely lady in question. And there's lots of questions to come.
The professor's two buds stop by, of course voluteering information about his wife's "loose" ways... all the while he is curiously digging a hole in his basement. And please be quiet.
A story you can't possibly resist. The talkiative buddies are well played by series regular Phillip Coolidge and Henry Jones, two of the best character actors in the business. Jones was always the reliably sly type while Coolidge played the quiet gent, who you had to keep an eye on. Coolidge was a cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, and there is a family resemblence. Many critics noted he was a gifted actor, but generally got minor roles that did not show off his true talent.
Cara Williams, after a long career, passed in Dec. 2021. By the way, De Mortuis (nil nisi bonum) in Latin means, "Of the dead, nothing but good is to be said."
A diamond in the rough, must see late night episode. Hitch, as always, has the last laugh, and enjoying it.
SEASON 2 EPISODE 3 remastered Universal dvd box set.