"The David Niven Show" The Twist of the Key (TV Episode 1959) Poster

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The Twist of the Key
Prismark1015 March 2024
Marna Edwards (Anne Francis) is the frustrated housewife who has madea rendezvous with her lover at the beachouse.

He is going to let himself in, as she has left the key behind.

Only her husband Tom (John Dehner) walks in unexpectedly and hears the phone conversation.

Tom is a domineering husband. He drinks, he gambles and keeps Marna about as an accessory.

Tom knows about his wife's affair. Although he does not know who the man is. Tom has made an arrangement that his wife lover's will be killed as an intruder.

Now Marna needs to get a message through to her lover, no matter what.

I did think the twist was easy to guess. Only Marna has paid a heavy price.
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Worth, worth, worth !!!
searchanddestroy-114 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This episode could have been made for Alfred Hitchcock presents. Exciting, taut, tense story of a married but unfaithful wife - Ann Francis - who has to meet a lover one night, when she thinks her husband - John Dehner - will be away. But Dehner listens her wife calling her lover and then calls his own friend and asks him to "get rid" of a trespasser who prowls around his beach house, not far from his home. The night in question, Dehner decides to stay at home with her wife, who suddenly understands that her lover will wait for her at the beach house before falling in a trap. After a struggle with her husband, she kills him and calls her lover.

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Her lover answers and tells her that she has not to be afraid of anything, because the husband's friend is no one else than himself. Dehner ignored that his wife's lover and "friend" were the very same person.

That's here Francis understands that she killed her husband only "for the birds". But I still don't get where the guy ringing at the door, supposed to add suspense to the story, has to do with this.

A very ironic ending in the AH PRESENTS series tradition.
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