No real twist ending to this episode, we know Bruce Richmond (Don Chastain) locked Adelaide Snow (Patricia Collinge) in her rather large walk-in safe, and even though it was airtight, it didn't seem a stretch that she could survive up to a weekend through the ordeal. But what was he thinking anyway, like he could get away with the attempted murder? Good luck explaining how Mrs. Snow locked herself in, you had to spin the dial on the safe on the outside to get it locked. There were two close-ups of actor Richmond in which his face and brow were sweating profusely under conditions that didn't warrant it, so I guess you'd have to say his guilt over forging Mrs. Snow's personal checks were bearing on his conscience. The closing scene rather abruptly seals Bruce Richmond's fate, but unlike most of Hitchcock's programs, there was no irony to it. The thief got caught just as sure as if he wrote those checks in front of witnesses.
Review of The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
