My summary quote pretty much says it all about Angie (Doris Dowling), the gold digging girlfriend of barely-making-ends-meet Larry Chetnik (Robert Loggia). Although quite honestly, a hundred fifty bucks a week wasn't a bad week's pay back in 1960. That's what Larry was earning when he decided to chuck it all for half that amount by going to work for a gangster importer. His scheme involved robbing his boss Bregornick (Will Kuluva) at some point, he just needed the right plan to make it happen. Impersonating a business acquaintance of Gregornick, Larry puts himself in position to deliver thirty thousand dollars in cash to Miklos (Wolfe Barzell), but in what looks like a rare move of humiliation and piety, Larry arrives with hat in hand and puts himself at the mercy of his employer. I thought Larry's exercise in patience for a bigger score was a well considered Plan B on his part, but with a gal like Angie, you had to wonder when her own tolerance would give out.
6 Reviews
OK Story of Manipulation
Hitchcoc27 May 2021
Robert Loggia plays a guy who is going nowhere. He is hooked up with a greedy, money-grubbing woman. He manages to get a job with a man who knew his father, but honest work is never enough, so he plans to rob the guy. The ending has a little punch, but the story is pretty pedestrian.
It's Not Lucy and Desi
dougdoepke24 May 2009
It's a slender premise, but the low-key lesson has stayed with me over the years. Robert Loggia is a tough guy in an ethnic neighborhood, with a grasping wife who will only stick around if Loggia can make a big score. Fortunately, Loggia's father had a family friend from the old country who's now a shady, prosperous importer. So Loggia uses his connection to land a strong-arm job, but one that still does not pay much. So how will he make the big score since the racketeer is no one to mess with. There's a good lesson in human psychology in the upshot.
Loggia is a very persuasive actor, good enough to carry the entire half-hour. However, this is also a chance to catch Doris Dowling in a patented role as the greedy wife. With her wicked eyes, sharp features, and sensual figure, she's a memorably exotic presence. Here she's entering early middle-age, but 15 years earlier, she had a promising movie career before falling afoul of Hollywood's Red scare and moving for a time to Italy. Nonetheless, her role as Alan Ladd's faithless wife in the Blue Dahlia (1945) is not to be missed. Here, her smouldering exchanges with the intense Loggia remain unusually compelling for episodic TV.
Anyway, it's a solid Hitchcock entry with a food-for-thought ending.
Loggia is a very persuasive actor, good enough to carry the entire half-hour. However, this is also a chance to catch Doris Dowling in a patented role as the greedy wife. With her wicked eyes, sharp features, and sensual figure, she's a memorably exotic presence. Here she's entering early middle-age, but 15 years earlier, she had a promising movie career before falling afoul of Hollywood's Red scare and moving for a time to Italy. Nonetheless, her role as Alan Ladd's faithless wife in the Blue Dahlia (1945) is not to be missed. Here, her smouldering exchanges with the intense Loggia remain unusually compelling for episodic TV.
Anyway, it's a solid Hitchcock entry with a food-for-thought ending.
A good actor...a sub-par script.
planktonrules14 April 2021
Larry (Robert Loggia) wants to marry his girlfriend, Angie, though you can see no reason why. She isn't beautiful, they argue horribly and she insists he must have a lot of money...or else. So, Larry gets a job with a mobster, Mr. Bregornick, and although the money initially isn't much, he hopes he'll soon be rolling in the dough. But when it doesn't happen fast enough, Larry decides to rob his boss...and, as I mentioned, the boss is a gangster and is not a guy you'd want to cross....meaning if he does it, Larry is an idiot!
This is a very weak episode...with a poor payoff. It seems more like the first half of an episode of "The Untouchables" and offers none of the irony or fun you'd associate with "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"....it also feels very incomplete and disappointing.
This is a very weak episode...with a poor payoff. It seems more like the first half of an episode of "The Untouchables" and offers none of the irony or fun you'd associate with "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"....it also feels very incomplete and disappointing.
Weak
stevenfallonnyc7724 January 2021
Pretty weak entry in the Hitchcock series, with a man trying to rob some money off an old friend of his father's, in order to please his money-hungry wife.
The wife's ranting about how much she loves money makes one wonder why doesn't the guy just leave her, because it's obvious she only shows affection for him when there are dollar signs.
The ending however isn't so bad, kind of a surprise really, but getting there was definitely a bit painful. There are worse episodes but plenty better than this one.
The wife's ranting about how much she loves money makes one wonder why doesn't the guy just leave her, because it's obvious she only shows affection for him when there are dollar signs.
The ending however isn't so bad, kind of a surprise really, but getting there was definitely a bit painful. There are worse episodes but plenty better than this one.
The Money
coltras3516 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
A bookie named Larry Chetnik Robert Loggia) has a girlfriend ( Doris Dowling) who will only marry if he has money, plenty of it, and in order to do that he quits and decides to work for an exporter named Bregornick who was once a friend of his father. Larry embezzles money from his new employer, but has a change of heart when Cash Bregornick talks to him about Larry's father. Larry goes to his girlfriend's and tells her that he now has Bregornick's trust and that they can bilk even more out of him later.
Not bad story with a good performance by Loggia, though his character is a bit of a sap for hanging on with a hag of a girlfriend. All she cares for money. She's well played by Doris Dowling.
Not bad story with a good performance by Loggia, though his character is a bit of a sap for hanging on with a hag of a girlfriend. All she cares for money. She's well played by Doris Dowling.
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