***SPOILERS*** The total arrogance of these two double crossing swines has no bounds in this Alfred Hitchock episode. The two Madge and her boyfriend Maxie, Jean Hagen & Steve Brodie, had set up their partner in crime Joe Kedzie, Steven Hill, to take the rap for a $100,000.00 bank robbery they participated in. It was Joe who was left holding the bag and getting caught and convicted for the crime that he spent 10 years and four days behind bars in the joint San Quentin Prison. The drawback in all that for the two was that Joe hid the cash where they couldn't find it in the middle of the Mojave Desert. With Joe now released from prison both Madge & Maxie expect him to lead them to the money and better yet murder him after they get their greedy hands on it. But unknown to them Joe has other plans and those plans are to get even with what they did to him in setting him up and now wanting to double cross him for a second time. This time around Joe will be the one doing the double crossing.
A bit tricky as well as surprise ending in that Joe in fact trusted his partners in knowing what their up to and capable of doing. Still playing along with them in finding the stolen cash and splitting it with them the two-Madge & Maxie-dding't seem to realize what he had planned for them. Thinking that they had the winning cards both Madge & Maxie let Joe live long enough to show them where he hid the money but Joe turned the tables on them just when they though their plan was to succeed.
***SPOILERS*** It was Madge who got the worst of it when Joe, after dispatching Maxie, allowed himself to get trapped in the bottom of the mine shaft in the middle of the desert where he hid the cash by Madge cutting the rope where he lead her to it. With Madge now having all the $100,000.00 to spend on herself what she dding't have was the key to the jeep to drive her out of the desert that Joe secretly kept on him where she's now facing a certain and agonizing death. And the only way she can get the car key is to join Joe at the bottom of the mind shaft where she left him to die!
A bit tricky as well as surprise ending in that Joe in fact trusted his partners in knowing what their up to and capable of doing. Still playing along with them in finding the stolen cash and splitting it with them the two-Madge & Maxie-dding't seem to realize what he had planned for them. Thinking that they had the winning cards both Madge & Maxie let Joe live long enough to show them where he hid the money but Joe turned the tables on them just when they though their plan was to succeed.
***SPOILERS*** It was Madge who got the worst of it when Joe, after dispatching Maxie, allowed himself to get trapped in the bottom of the mine shaft in the middle of the desert where he hid the cash by Madge cutting the rope where he lead her to it. With Madge now having all the $100,000.00 to spend on herself what she dding't have was the key to the jeep to drive her out of the desert that Joe secretly kept on him where she's now facing a certain and agonizing death. And the only way she can get the car key is to join Joe at the bottom of the mind shaft where she left him to die!