A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
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- GoofsEd Mungo ( Robert Karnes ) tells Barbie Hallem (Barbara Cook) that he saw her drive up in a fancy car. Ed was behind the counter since she drove up and entered the roadside diner. The windows, including the one on the door, are all covered. There is no way he could have seen Barbaras car.
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Benny Mungo: You know, Marcella said the very same thing last night just before I put her to sleep.
Barbie Hallem: You put her...
Benny Mungo: Just like I did Ed. I do it real quick. I'll show you.
Barbie Hallem: [screams]
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Written by Charles Gounod
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This is a standout episode worth watching
Although this episode in and of itself, as other reviewers have commented, is not that great, there are several aspects to the story that make this entry quite noteworthy.
Number one is the enticing dance performed by actress Barbara Cook that opens the show. Wow! A slow, steamy grind that has all eyes, including those of the other ladies present, on Barbara. Although she is supposed to be playing a bad girl (in fact, an over-the-top, and therefore not all that believable bad girl), the dance is actually a great example of the timeless expression of femininity. It's not a "dirty dancing" performance at all. Rather it's seductive and at the same time a riveting example of a well shaped woman putting her curves in motion in a manner that both sexes can enjoy.
(btw - another episode that comes to mind in this genre is the very first Hitchcock Presents episode in the series; REVENGE. A young and stunning Vera Miles ('The Man who shot Liberty Valence', The Wrong Man') shows up in a one-piece bathing suit. I always thought this actress was attractive, but she knocks your socks off in this installment. For 1955, the amount of skin she exposes can only be measured in acres. My eyes actually popped out of my head.)
Anyway, also note the people in the dance scene sitting around Barbara watching her dance. Their body positions. The look on their faces. The concentration of beautiful women. You would almost expect to see such a scene in an installment of Playboy After Dark, which of course had not even been invented yet.
A couple of other things to watch for in this episode is the scene when Barbara shows up at her cabin and drinks a beer offered to her by Vic Morrow. It's an over-sized can labeled simply "BEER" in giant lettering. This must be the days before product placement took hold. Also check out the can of whatever Vic Morrow is eating his "dinner" out of. It was opened upside down! Fit the character perfectly. Someone was paying attention to the details here.
And check out that 1st generation T-bird Barbara is driving!! Looks like a '57, but I'm not an expert.
In the end though, as mentioned, this is not a very believable story. You have the selfish, self centered Barbara character abandoning her boyfriend on the side of a road in the middle of NOWHERE at 2AM, with no jacket, simply for being boring. I don't think so. Then you have the demented Vic Morrow character murdering this woman. Far more likely is that he would rape this fox! At least before the murder. Perhaps Hitchcock felt that murder was more palatable to 1950s audiences than sexual assault (it is only referenced indirectly in the aforementioned REVENGE episode). Perhaps that is still true today. Perhaps I even agree. I think I would rather be dead than undergo a rape (being a guy I'm thinking along the lines of prison rape). Yeah. I'd rather be murdered.
Finally, and on an entirely different note, I would have bet money that it was Vic DAMONE who died in that helicopter crash while filming The Twilight Zone, not Vic MORROW. I have always believed it to be Vic Damone, from those Coppertone commercials, who died in that tragic accident ever since the event occurred. Weird. I think I may be in a time warp or something. I mean what, am I going to wake up one morning and find out that Leonard Nimoy played Captain Kirk and Bill Shatner played Spock? And it will all seem normal??
Number one is the enticing dance performed by actress Barbara Cook that opens the show. Wow! A slow, steamy grind that has all eyes, including those of the other ladies present, on Barbara. Although she is supposed to be playing a bad girl (in fact, an over-the-top, and therefore not all that believable bad girl), the dance is actually a great example of the timeless expression of femininity. It's not a "dirty dancing" performance at all. Rather it's seductive and at the same time a riveting example of a well shaped woman putting her curves in motion in a manner that both sexes can enjoy.
(btw - another episode that comes to mind in this genre is the very first Hitchcock Presents episode in the series; REVENGE. A young and stunning Vera Miles ('The Man who shot Liberty Valence', The Wrong Man') shows up in a one-piece bathing suit. I always thought this actress was attractive, but she knocks your socks off in this installment. For 1955, the amount of skin she exposes can only be measured in acres. My eyes actually popped out of my head.)
Anyway, also note the people in the dance scene sitting around Barbara watching her dance. Their body positions. The look on their faces. The concentration of beautiful women. You would almost expect to see such a scene in an installment of Playboy After Dark, which of course had not even been invented yet.
A couple of other things to watch for in this episode is the scene when Barbara shows up at her cabin and drinks a beer offered to her by Vic Morrow. It's an over-sized can labeled simply "BEER" in giant lettering. This must be the days before product placement took hold. Also check out the can of whatever Vic Morrow is eating his "dinner" out of. It was opened upside down! Fit the character perfectly. Someone was paying attention to the details here.
And check out that 1st generation T-bird Barbara is driving!! Looks like a '57, but I'm not an expert.
In the end though, as mentioned, this is not a very believable story. You have the selfish, self centered Barbara character abandoning her boyfriend on the side of a road in the middle of NOWHERE at 2AM, with no jacket, simply for being boring. I don't think so. Then you have the demented Vic Morrow character murdering this woman. Far more likely is that he would rape this fox! At least before the murder. Perhaps Hitchcock felt that murder was more palatable to 1950s audiences than sexual assault (it is only referenced indirectly in the aforementioned REVENGE episode). Perhaps that is still true today. Perhaps I even agree. I think I would rather be dead than undergo a rape (being a guy I'm thinking along the lines of prison rape). Yeah. I'd rather be murdered.
Finally, and on an entirely different note, I would have bet money that it was Vic DAMONE who died in that helicopter crash while filming The Twilight Zone, not Vic MORROW. I have always believed it to be Vic Damone, from those Coppertone commercials, who died in that tragic accident ever since the event occurred. Weird. I think I may be in a time warp or something. I mean what, am I going to wake up one morning and find out that Leonard Nimoy played Captain Kirk and Bill Shatner played Spock? And it will all seem normal??
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- Jul 27, 2012
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