Cockrell, and while it has that fun campfire ghost story kind of feel in the world of Victorian-era British detectives, it is a little disappointing once you find that the hand that fashioned such showpieces of allusion, aurally and visually figurative inferences, plays on cinematic language like Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Lifeboat, Psycho and Vertigo is letting the wheel spin while he's off in the corner looking at blue pictures. It's a, well, fast and efficient storyline weaved by Rupert Croft-Cooke and adapted by workhorse Alfred Hitchcock Presents telewriter Francis M. Unable to wait until rick unpacks, Jackie goes through his Uncles bags and finds a loaded gun.
Six-year old Jackie Chester is delighted when his Uncle Rick arrives from Africa with a surprise gift. Hitchcock, who himself directed this particular episode, has not only done vastly superior work, to say the least, he has also done better episodes, including the very first one, Revenge, which is deeply implicit within its seemingly simplistic story, but Banquo's Chair could easily have been a mere exercise, like the determined Solitaire game the office manager plays in his free time, having gone so impressively far already that he can afford to take such part in such frivolities. Youre Dead' (directed by Alfred Hitchcock) was originally broadcast on 17/Oct/1961 as part of the seventh season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I was going to say that the mindset behind this featherweight bathroom break-long Hitchcock TV episode was, 'Ha! I'm so clever because I churned this one out real fast and efficient like!' But that would not be fair.
