The suspense also could have been more consistent, it's there but just not enough. ![]() It feels very rushed, sprawling in structure and needed a much longer length, this is a story that would have leant itself much better as feature length. However, "Into Thin Air" is another episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' that tries to cram in too much in too short a duration. ![]() Alan Napier was always great value, always liked him in 'Batman' for instance. Patricia Hitchcock does a good sympathetic job in the lead roles, one of her better performances of the series. Enough of the script intrigues and there is some nice suspense. The intro is wonderfully dry and acerbic and Don Medford directs in a way that is not static or routine, even if he is not in complete control in the latter stages. The music is suitably ominous without being over-emphasised, and cannot get enough of the theme tune for reasons that have been pointed out in my reviews for the previous 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' episodes. The production values are solid, some stylish shots and a nice atmosphere created. Very neat set up, with a clear 'The Lady Vanishes' and 'So Long at the Fair' influence, with generally solid albeit not amazing execution. More of somewhere in the middle, that does a good deal right but it could have been fresher and runs out of gas at the end (which is a shame). "Into Thin Air" is neither one of the best or worst episodes of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents', certainly better than the rating here implies (somehow managing to be rated worse than the previous episode "Don't Come Back Alive"). The story, while not novel which is acknowledged by Hitchcock himself in the bookending, was a very good idea and very Hitchcockian, even though not directed by Hitchcock. The biggest interest point of "Into Thin Air" is that it stars Hitchcock's own daughter Patricia in the first of ten appearances in the series in the lead role. The first two episodes to me were great, but the next two were disappointing. Either way, it's still an excellent episode.'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' was a bit of a mixed bag up to this early stages. Would you really leave a steady and reliable husband to go off with somebody that's a womanizer and smacks his wife around? Really? I realize people might have their own tales to tell so perhaps I'm just being naive saying the above comment. This is an interesting episode but I question that twist ending. Crane looking like he's in a complete daze over the reveal that just happened. Crane (!) The two ladies get into a cat fight as the camera pans over Mr. He was about to leave her and go off with Mrs. Verber complains about her husband but then she pulls out a wild card over what Mr. He claimed to be a building inspector in order to search the premises. The cop wasn't going around telling who he was. Verber comes down the stairs and she confesses she was afraid of the cop. Verber ends up being dead, killed by his wife. ![]() So much attention is being drawn that a cop comes around to investigate the whereabouts of Mr. She's got a nose problem and that's all there is to it. Crane off as just being a 'Gladys Kravitz' sort of character. I like how the episode plays out in some ways because you truly want to write Mrs. She's all the time nosing about the Verbers business. He even cautions his wife about his attitude and loses his temper because Mrs. He realizes what he needs to do/not do when it concerns getting involved with anybody's business. Crane is a nice man but he also knows when to mind his own business. They're all the time getting into arguments, I'd say it was equal footing in terms of both of them smacking each other around. One couple (the Verbers) is quite dysfunctional and sadly children are involved. That's something up under the house, I can't imagine a body (especially something as large as a human) stinking up a place for very long before somebody notices a corpse around. I remember one year an animal died up under the bathroom and the odor definitely wasn't pleasant. ![]() I'll start with my thoughts on one of those points and then get to the meat of the episode.
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