"Together" is an interesting episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" because it's one of the few times Joseph Cotten played a horrible person (one of the others was in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt"). Normally, Cotten played nice guys...or at least ordinary ones. But here he's a philandering murderer!
When the story begins, Tony (Cotten) is being confronted by his mistress. She is tired of their arrangement and insists that Tony tell his wife about her and get a divorce. However, Tony is pragmatic as well as evil...and his wife is rich...and he doesn't want a divorce to end his high living! So he does what any total scumbag would do...he murders his mistress! But there's a problem...when he tries to leave, his key breaks off in lock and he's stuck in the room with the dead woman!
This is a pretty good episode of the series. My only complaint, and it's not a huge one, is that the story seems to hinge on a very difficult to believe series of events. Still, it is enjoyable and worth seeing.
By the way, the IMDB trivia says that actor Sam Buffington died two years after completing this episode. Sadly, the man did die and it was ruled a suicide....and he was only 28. What a waste.
When the story begins, Tony (Cotten) is being confronted by his mistress. She is tired of their arrangement and insists that Tony tell his wife about her and get a divorce. However, Tony is pragmatic as well as evil...and his wife is rich...and he doesn't want a divorce to end his high living! So he does what any total scumbag would do...he murders his mistress! But there's a problem...when he tries to leave, his key breaks off in lock and he's stuck in the room with the dead woman!
This is a pretty good episode of the series. My only complaint, and it's not a huge one, is that the story seems to hinge on a very difficult to believe series of events. Still, it is enjoyable and worth seeing.
By the way, the IMDB trivia says that actor Sam Buffington died two years after completing this episode. Sadly, the man did die and it was ruled a suicide....and he was only 28. What a waste.