The narrative's as twisty as a mountain road, nonetheless stick with the hour since the ironies do pile up. It's quite a cast of characters. There's an ice queen neighbor (Cutts), her meek and mild husband (Hayes), an Audrey Hepburn look-alike (McNamara), and above all, a feisty old matriarch (Gish). Hayes thinks mean wife Cutts might kill him. So when he disappears and a decomposed body turns up in their barn, it looks bad for the wife. Meanwhile Gish doesn't trust anybody-- always a wise move in a Hitchcock story.
I can't believe it, but is that really a 70-year old Gish dashing up the road in the opening scene. I think it is. Anyone seeing that energy burst ought to know her character is no one to mess with. And isn't that former RKO leading man Kent Smith as the doctor. Good to see him picking up a payday. Too bad McNamara quit the business after this outing. I guess she had trouble acceding to Hollywood's commercial demands. And on a really somber note, both she and Cutts died by their own hand at age 48. Something like the downside of the celebrity ladder, I guess. On a lighter note, Gish survived to age 99, and after seeing this, I'm not surprised
Anyway, the entry holds interest by not telegraphing where it's going. And unless I missed something, the scales of justice don't exactly balance out at hour's end. So see what you think.