Another fine episode by Frances Cockrell, who also brought lots of imagination and homicide to BATMAN a decade later.
Carmen Matthews and Dorothy Stickney, two superior stage and film actresses, are appropriately cast as the Enright sisters, about to lose the old homestead. In steps heartless, calculating Mr. Brenner (Ray Collins, just before his PERRY MASON days), ready to take control of the place and literally throw them into the street.
What to do? In the usual Hitchcock style, MURDER 101. He deserved it anyway, right? The thing Hitch must have recommended time and time again to his writers was to ALWAYS end an arguement with cold blooded murder. At least it spiced things up.
The two spinsters begin deliberations as to the best way to eliminate their guest, and eventually Brenner is sitting paralyzed and at their mercy. Didn't he like the tea and cookies?
Carmen Matthews, who was a Hitchcock favorite, much like Robert H. Harris, is again perfectly cast as the warm and gentle villain, and the brains of the outfit who is quite the cook... Wait for the ending...
Jules Bricken did a very good job directing this talented trio, and with experience; he also directed several episodes of Boris Karloff's macabre series, THRILLER. In the 60s Bricken produced one of the greatest WW II films ever, THE TRAIN, starring Burt Lancaster.
Best of SEASON 2, remastered Universal dvd box set (2006). These box sets are terrific, usually containing 5 dvds.