As another reviewer has noted. Ruth Hussey who plays the gaslighted Mrs Paula Hudson does remind one of Lucille Ball playing Lucy Ricardo. When James McCallion who plays the real mink thief Charlie Harper comes in, he looks like a younger Nathan Lane. Eugenia Paul who plays the fake model Dolores Dawn is undoubtedly one of the loveliest actresses to have ever graced a Hitchcock episode; she plays up her ingenue looks with her large innocent eyes perfectly.
The bloodlessness of this episode (apart from all the poor animals who became furs) extended to a couple of little comic touches with police sergeant Bradford and her need for a permanent wave. And while it was treated like a joke in many a Hollywood production up till then, Hitchcock's flippant remark about wife-beating would not have made the final cut today.
Right at the end, after Sgt Delaney hints that she ought to have suspected the mink she was buying was stolen, the ambiguous look on Mrs Hudson's face suggests that, in the deepest recesses of her mind, for all her moral ethics, she probably did.
One loose thread: Mrs Hudson never got back the $400 she paid for the stolen mink; one can only assume it would have been returned to her eventually.
The bloodlessness of this episode (apart from all the poor animals who became furs) extended to a couple of little comic touches with police sergeant Bradford and her need for a permanent wave. And while it was treated like a joke in many a Hollywood production up till then, Hitchcock's flippant remark about wife-beating would not have made the final cut today.
Right at the end, after Sgt Delaney hints that she ought to have suspected the mink she was buying was stolen, the ambiguous look on Mrs Hudson's face suggests that, in the deepest recesses of her mind, for all her moral ethics, she probably did.
One loose thread: Mrs Hudson never got back the $400 she paid for the stolen mink; one can only assume it would have been returned to her eventually.