An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.An executive plans to end an associate's love affair and save the man's career and marriage.
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- John O'Brien
- (as Philip Reed)
- The Drug Clerk
- (as G. Stanley Jones)
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- TriviaIn the opening scene at the restaurant, Philip Bartel (Dan Dailey) tells his friend Peter Harding (Howard Duff) that his mistress Lorna Dickson (Bettye Ackerman) is 28, and Harding reminds Bartel that his wife Beatrice (Jan Sterling) is 38. In reality, Bettye Ackerman was 38 while Jan Sterling was only three years older at 41.
- GoofsWhen Peter Harding is making the lethal drink for Philip Bartel in the hospital, the "water" in the glass had the powder in it before the poison was put in. The liquid in the glass wasn't clear.
- Quotes
Peter Harding: That was an excellent lesson you had, Barney. I thought you had something desperately important to tell me.
Philip 'Barney' Bartel: I have.
Peter Harding: I'm still listening.
Philip 'Barney' Bartel: I've got to leave Beatrice.
Peter Harding: Oh? Trouble?
Philip 'Barney' Bartel: No, it's just that I don't love her anymore. That's all. Funny, when we got married 15 years ago I loved her, needed her. Now it's Beatrice that needs me.
Peter Harding: You know, Barney, there are some people who would say you're pretty lucky to have Beatrice.
Philip 'Barney' Bartel: I know. That's what I'm saying. But, you know, when we got married Beatrice never really loved me. I learned that soon enough. Oh, she was fond of me all right.
Peter Harding: So now you're going to leave her, just like that. All right, who's the girl?
- ConnectionsVersion of Married Life (2007)
It's in all this confusion and whoring around that Barney's good friend Peter Harding, Howard Duff, pops in to offer both his help and advice. With Barney telling Peter to check out Lorna and keep her entertained while he's on a business trip in San Francisco he in fact falls for his best friend's secret lover Lorna and plans to screw Barney by stealing her from right under his nose. Peter in setting him up had given Barney the idea of knocking off his old lady when he was developing photos in his lab. Using the developer Altrapeine Peter tells an eager to learn, about film developing, Barney that if swallowed it can cause a person to go into convulsions and make it look like he or she died of a massive heart attack.
With that idea put into his head by Peter Barney gets a bottle of the stuff, Altrapeine, at the local pharmacy and plans to slip it into Beatrice's medication and finally get her out of his hair and life for good. Thus making it possible for him to finally marry Lorna! What Barney doesn't know is that his good friend Peter is setting him up to get caught in his wife's murder so that he, who's been getting it on with her while Barney's away, can have Lorna all too himself!
****SPOILERS**** Barney in fact got cold feet when it came to do in his old lady in finding out from Lorna that, by Peter telling her, Beatrice's suffering from heart troubles and him, Barney , leaving her would touch off a massive heart-attack on their, Barney & Lorna, part! The ending of this Alfred Hitchcock episode is a real lulu with Barney who after his entire plan to murder Betrice falls apart goes to plan B, after getting banged up in a car crash, which involves his own demise. But wait a moment Barney still has an ace up his sleeve in him getting even with his good friend Peter who in fact double-crossed him by trying to take Lorna away from him. And that ends up screwing and screwing real good Peter who naively went along, without knowing his part in it, with Barney's sinister plan!
- sol1218
- Nov 20, 2011
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- Runtime51 minutes
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