![]() bank clerk who'd fallen hard for her while on vacation when she finds out the chump handles payrolls, Eva lures her old flame back to the States and together they blackmail Oscar into robbing his bank -but a tricky triple cross provides an out in more ways than one. With nowhere to go, Eva marries Oscar Blinney (Larry Sorch), a meek L.A. Sultry Las Vegas hostess Eva Ashley (Linda Christian) and her ruthless lover (Henry Silva) make a living shaking down smitten saps but when she kills one, Eva gets black-listed in the gambling mecca and her casino-employed boyfriend is exiled to Mexico. By the way, as of today, Larry Storch is still going strong at 98 and Henry Silva at 92! But one too many times the show ended on such a low note.and it takes the show from a perfect 10 to a still respectable 8. First, given it's a perfect crime.HOW would the person get caught? Second, considering the person was morally (though not legally) entitled to kill an evil person, why undo this and leave the audience wondering why the epilogue to say that they were incarcerated? My theory is that sponsors or the network demanded these awful epilogues, though I noticed a few episodes similar to this didn't have such endings. It seems that in many 'perfect crime' episodes of both "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", despite seeing a well constructed crime (in which MANY times you are pulling for the criminal because they are quite morally justified in committing some murder), Hitchcock ends the show with an epilogue saying essentially that later the killer was caught and punished. ![]() What's poor Oscar to do?! This is a perfect episode until Alfred Hitchcock's inexplicably bad epilogue. ![]() But she has a heart of stone.and will only leave if he gives her $50,000.which would mean him embezzling from the bank where he works. She only perks up when one of her old lovers, Bill (Henry Silva), arrives for a visit.and Oscar isn't stupid and knows what's going on.so he asks for a divorce. Soon, Oscar realizes the honeymoon is over, as Eva sits around drinking all day and won't work nor keep house nor make him dinner. She's broke and marries him.simply to use him. On her way from the boss' office, Eva runs into a poor shnook, Oscar (Larry Storch), and gives him a hard luck story because she knows he's stuck on her. The owner of the casino has no doubts that she murdered Peter.but he doesn't care.he just fires her an insists she leave. However, Peter has had enough and confronts Eva.and she kills him in a surprisingly violent scene. It seems that Peter and Eva (Linda Christian) work there and are skimming funds. Anyhow, in my book the entry's a series essential. Only Hitch's revolutionary transposing of the law triumphant from on screen to his epilog could get away with that soul-satisfying last scene, where justice, I think, triumphs over law. But what really impresses me is the ending. Then factor in the sinister looking Silva as a master manipulator, and you've got a terrific triangle. You just know she's going to victimize the little guy. And what guy wouldn't fall for the beauteous Eva. He's about as repressed in his role here as he is clownish as Cpl. I'm still in doubt, but I guess miracles do happen. Is that really the buffoonish Storch from the infamous F Troop, playing Oscar. Then again, being Hitch, you know things aren't always as they seem. So what's going to happen to poor meek and mild Oscar. But, of course, Eva has no intention of being the good wife, especially when former other lover Bill (Silva) shows up. Mousy bank teller Oscar is immediately smitten, and together they marry and escape. Slutty Eva (Christian) bludgeons one of her two lovers, and needs a quick way out of town. Excellent entry that sustains interest all the way through.
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