There is something about these plots, even though they turn up in movies all the time ie "Phantom Lady" - you know, someone does something a trifle on the shady side, needs an alibi and then nobody wants to know them!! In this quite good episode Ruth Hussey plays a woman accused of acquiring a mink stole by not quite honest means. The police are involved but she is puzzled - she claims she was given the name of a woman who had a mink stole she was selling cheap, by her hair-dresser. But as the police retrace her steps, no-one seems to know anything about it - and she is looking decidedly loopy!! Just when she feels that her world is becoming unstuck she is visited by an insurance assessor, but actually he is really Charley the scam artist and the instigator of the theft and he'd like to do a deal but will she be persuaded??
After the starkly dramatic "Never Again" this is like a nice storm in a teacup. Ruth Hussey who I thought was always better than the parts she played, specialised in nice "sensible wife" roles, she was good as the flustered Mrs. Hudson who may or may not have known she was buying stolen goods. As well, the lovely Veda Ann Borg is the glib hairdresser and Sheila Bromley, she of the many sexy pre-code bit parts played Lois.
After the starkly dramatic "Never Again" this is like a nice storm in a teacup. Ruth Hussey who I thought was always better than the parts she played, specialised in nice "sensible wife" roles, she was good as the flustered Mrs. Hudson who may or may not have known she was buying stolen goods. As well, the lovely Veda Ann Borg is the glib hairdresser and Sheila Bromley, she of the many sexy pre-code bit parts played Lois.