***SPOILERS*** Like a previous reviewer brought out the fact that William Shatner's John Crane is a lot like Anthony Perkins' Norman Bates' "Psycho" in this Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode. In that he's an uncontrollable mama's boy who has to choose between his control freak mother Claire, Jessie Royce Landis, and his "It's either my way or the Highway" girlfriend Lottie Rank,Gia Scala, a recent immigrant from West Germany. It's Lottie who John met while he was on vacation with his mom selling men's jewelry in Vermont and fell heads over heels for her. But it's his overbearing and over protective mom who wants to keep her boy John all to herself and share him with on one, man or women, else.
Mama goes so far out of way to cause friction and mess things up for John by her going to the store where Lottie works and bust her chops about how crummy the cuff-links are that she's displaying which Mama was looking to buy John for a birthday present.Things got so out of hand between Mama & Lottie that her son John prepared for them to meet at the waterfall that he and Lottie spent most of their time to make a peace settlement between the two and stop their fighting each other.
***SPOILERS***We already saw at the beginning of the episode that John was at an inquest in the death of someone that he claimed was an accident. By the end of the episode we finally get to see who his victim was due to process of elimination. And in him being the good and obedient son that he is it wasn't all that hard to see who his victim was and even more why he was acquitted of causing her death! In this case it didn't really matter who got killed since both-Mama & Lottie-were cut from the same cloth in trying to get the what seemed like feather and lame brain John to do their dirty work for each other. And it didn't matter whom John did in since either one of them deserved everything that they got.
Mama goes so far out of way to cause friction and mess things up for John by her going to the store where Lottie works and bust her chops about how crummy the cuff-links are that she's displaying which Mama was looking to buy John for a birthday present.Things got so out of hand between Mama & Lottie that her son John prepared for them to meet at the waterfall that he and Lottie spent most of their time to make a peace settlement between the two and stop their fighting each other.
***SPOILERS***We already saw at the beginning of the episode that John was at an inquest in the death of someone that he claimed was an accident. By the end of the episode we finally get to see who his victim was due to process of elimination. And in him being the good and obedient son that he is it wasn't all that hard to see who his victim was and even more why he was acquitted of causing her death! In this case it didn't really matter who got killed since both-Mama & Lottie-were cut from the same cloth in trying to get the what seemed like feather and lame brain John to do their dirty work for each other. And it didn't matter whom John did in since either one of them deserved everything that they got.