Alfred Hitchcock presents
The Doubtful Doctor
Genre: Thriller
Erstausstrahlung: 4.10.60
Filmlänge: 23 Min.
Drehbuch: Jerry Sohl nach einer
Geschichte von Louis Paul.
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Kamera:
Regie: Arthur Hiller
Produzent:
Darsteller: Dick York (Ralph
Jones), Gena Rowlands (Lucille Jones), Michael Burns (Sidney), John
Zaremba (Talbert Collins), Ralph Smiley (Waiter), Robert Sampson (Ted
Parkinson), Joseph Julian.
Inhaltsangabe: Ralph Jones (Dick
York) describes to his psychiatrist an unusual event that happened to him.
The psychiatrist feels the event is in reality simply a daydream brought
on by Ralph’s anxiety, that is until Ralph presents to the psychiatrist
three items he purchased in his “daydream”.
Info:
Following an hard day at work and then a trying argument about money with
his wife at home, Ralph Jones (Dick York) longs for his bachelor days when
he was still single, happy and carefree. Shortly thereafter, he wakes up
in his old bachelor apartment only to find it's now two and half years ago
shortly before he met his wife-to-be Lucille (Gena Rowlands) only Ralph
finds his bachelor days a whole lot less fun than he remembered especially
when Lucille now shows no recognition and/or interest in him. Life looks
cold and lonely all of a sudden so Ralph decides to give his money away to
a kid for three baseball cards and jump in the river. He wakes up instead
in his own apartment's cold shower and sees his wife Lucille waiting for
him as he gets out.
This is quite enjoyable. Dick York is wonderful as Ralph Jones, a man
whose emotions range from annoyed and angry to befuddled and frightened to
regretful and saddened to happy and overjoyed all during the course of one
episode. His reactions and timing are quite good and it's really too bad
York would find himself typecast following "Bewitched" such was the range
he showed in shows like this one. Gena Rowlands meanwhile simply looks
beautiful in her role as Jones's frequently pouting wife. A fun episode
which should please genre fans.
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