Suspicion: Four O'Clock (1957)
Season 1, Episode 1
6/10
Man against the clock
27 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Highly suspicious watch repairman Paul Steppe, E.G. Marshall, is convinced that his wife Fran, Nancy Kelly, is having an affair behind his back and plans to do Fran and her "lover" who turns out to be "Pretty Boy" Dave, Richard Long, in the next time he shows up in the house at precisely 4:00 PM. that afternoon. Assembling a massive overkill time bomb-That can easily demolish an entire city block- to do the work, by knocking off Fran & Dave, everything is set to go off until two neighbor hoods Joe & Bill, Tom Pittman & Harry Dean Stanton, break into the house in a home invasion and after robbing Paul of his last 9 dollars gag and tie him up in the basement.

Knowing that he has a little time-Two hours- until the bomb goes off Paul forgets about his wife Fran cheating on him if that's what she's doing and tries to get her as well as her lover "Pretty Boy" Dave, who turns out to be just a friend of the family, to rescue his sorry a** when they both drop in to have their afternoon tea & crumpets. Totally ignoring his attempts to alerts both Fran & "Pretty Boy" Dave of his desperate condition Paul waits for the end to come as the clock, or time bomb, slowly ticks away to its final and explosive conclusion.

****SPOILERS*** Heart-stopping final that blows everyone's mind to how this story finally ends with Paul by then having already lost his own and gone almost completely brain dead . Not what you would expect in a story like this but still enough tension and suspense to give one an massive heart attack watching it. With Paul, who by then has finally seen the evil in his ways, realizing what a big mistake he made by letting his emotions take control of his reasoning. And thus setting himself up for the "Big Bang" that's to destroy his life home family as well as his entire universe!
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