A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia.A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia.A mugging restores the memory of a man with amnesia.
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Neil Burstyn
- Chuck
- (as Neil Nephew)
Joseph Trapaso
- The Motorcycle Policeman
- (as Joe Trapaso)
Rudy Solari
- Mugger
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaOne of Richard Basehart's names was David Webber. Another amnesiac, Jason Bourne's real name David Webb.
- GoofsWhen Phillip Townsend (Baseheart) asks the taxi driver (Harold J. Stone) what day is it the Taxi Driver responds "It's Friday, no now it's Saturday September the 24th". He stated while checking his watch it as if it had just then past midnight into the next day. In fact he had remarked much earlier in the drug store that it was 1:00 AM. In addition September 24th fell on a Saturday in 1960 and not again until 1966. "The Black Curtain" aired in November of 1962.
- ConnectionsVersion of Street of Chance (1942)
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Hitch and Woolrich: Noir brought to the TV screen
Another great episode of that fascinating TV series "The Hitchcock Hour", which surprised us every time with a different kind of story, a different kind of atmosphere... Now, in this case, the story was written by Cornell Woolrich, probably one of the 'big four' of the 'hard boiled' school of crime writers together with Hammett, Cain and Chandler: he used to invent gritty and unusual tales about life in the big city - so we might well expect that this one is something like a 'TV Noir'. And it is.
The plot isn't exactly new: a man, after being hit on the head in a dark alley by some thugs, comes to and, helped by some friendly strangers like a cab driver and a drugstore owner, slowly starts to realize that he can't remember the past three years of his life! And of course, that's not enough: there's an unsolved murder involved, too...
Wonderful entertainment especially for Noir fans; a whole 'Film Noir' packed into 45 minutes of TV show length - which makes the plot all the more dense and suspenseful!
The plot isn't exactly new: a man, after being hit on the head in a dark alley by some thugs, comes to and, helped by some friendly strangers like a cab driver and a drugstore owner, slowly starts to realize that he can't remember the past three years of his life! And of course, that's not enough: there's an unsolved murder involved, too...
Wonderful entertainment especially for Noir fans; a whole 'Film Noir' packed into 45 minutes of TV show length - which makes the plot all the more dense and suspenseful!
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- Aug 11, 2014
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- Runtime48 minutes
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