Hitchcock was at the peak of his powers in the 1950s, and this debut episode of the anthology series "Suspicion" is further evidence of that. How he had time to crank out high-quality feature films at a rate of one about every 8 or 9 months, host his own TV anthology series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (for which he also directed a number of episodes), AND do side projects such as this one, I'll never know.
The story is straightforward: E. G. Marshall (in the same year he appeared as Juror Number 4 in Sidney Lumet's "Twelve Angry Men") portrays Paul Steppe, a nerdy and socially awkward watch repairman who suspects his wife Fran (Nancy Kelly) of cheating on him, so he's decided to kill her and the man Paul believes is her lover. But other circumstances intervene and Paul finds that he is trapped by his own elaborately-planned plot, and the clocks (several of them) tick away mercilessly and relentlessly away as Paul tries desperately to extricate himself. Hitchcock was known as the master of suspense and this episode of "Suspicion" is superb confirmation of that.
The story is straightforward: E. G. Marshall (in the same year he appeared as Juror Number 4 in Sidney Lumet's "Twelve Angry Men") portrays Paul Steppe, a nerdy and socially awkward watch repairman who suspects his wife Fran (Nancy Kelly) of cheating on him, so he's decided to kill her and the man Paul believes is her lover. But other circumstances intervene and Paul finds that he is trapped by his own elaborately-planned plot, and the clocks (several of them) tick away mercilessly and relentlessly away as Paul tries desperately to extricate himself. Hitchcock was known as the master of suspense and this episode of "Suspicion" is superb confirmation of that.