I should have seen the twist ending coming but I didn't. Deftly played by Dorothy Crane (Kathleen Maguire), her frantic requests for husband Stanley (Joe Mantell) to find out what happened with upstairs neighbor Ben Verber (Ed Kemmer) cleverly played to that finale in which Amelia Verber lowered the boom on both her philandering husband and the cheating wife. There was even some misdirection before the final reveal when Mrs. Verber brought up the name of the Glovetsy girl who was also one of her husband's girlfriends. You really had to feel for poor Mr. Krane, completely duped by his wife's secret, and stunned not knowing where he would go from here.
Though it has nothing to do with the story per se, I did happen to notice how characters in this episode constantly related to the heat by wiping their foreheads, and Stanley plopping himself in front of a fan when he knocked off work one afternoon. It speaks to that era of the Fifties when air conditioning wasn't yet a modern convenience that could be afforded by most everyone. Speaking of which, and I know it sounds kind of gross, but shouldn't Mr. Verber's corpse been giving off an odor by the time Stanley and Sergeant Halloran (Robert F. Simon) got to it. It should have been permeating the apartment building after three days, don't you think?
Though it has nothing to do with the story per se, I did happen to notice how characters in this episode constantly related to the heat by wiping their foreheads, and Stanley plopping himself in front of a fan when he knocked off work one afternoon. It speaks to that era of the Fifties when air conditioning wasn't yet a modern convenience that could be afforded by most everyone. Speaking of which, and I know it sounds kind of gross, but shouldn't Mr. Verber's corpse been giving off an odor by the time Stanley and Sergeant Halloran (Robert F. Simon) got to it. It should have been permeating the apartment building after three days, don't you think?