tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post3410879781770051728..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: The Hitchcock Project-Henry Slesar Part Twenty-Seven: "Keep Me Company" [7.5]John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-31519902386254481012018-04-28T11:01:29.338-07:002018-04-28T11:01:29.338-07:00Crosland did some very fine TV work. I've beco...Crosland did some very fine TV work. I've become familiar with his name. He worked on Hitchcock's hour long show as well. You probably know that the reason he used the "junior" was because his father was a prominent silent movie director.john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-54279538296587242732018-04-28T07:29:50.756-07:002018-04-28T07:29:50.756-07:00I really wish Universal would put out DVDs of the ...I really wish Universal would put out DVDs of the 7th season. There are some very good shows here that are not as well known as they should be. Thanks for reading and for your detailed comment. I have been impressed with Alan Crosland, Jr.'s AHP work and I did not expect to be.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-12767612712787263312018-04-27T00:28:11.023-07:002018-04-27T00:28:11.023-07:00Once again: thanks for the write-up, Jack. I just ...Once again: thanks for the write-up, Jack. I just watched this one again for the second time and enjoyed it more than the first. The pace, acting and writing were just right. Anne Francis was maybe too young and good looking to be wholly credible as a bored housewife type,--and with no children--and a husband still "hustling" for a living. Ten years later Sally Struthers would have been perfect in the part, but Anne was a sympathetic presence, and that helped.<br /><br />As her husband, Edward Hashim was outstanding in the short time he had on screen. This is the second night in a row I've seen him in a Hitchcock show, and in totally different roles. He was a very good, somewhat exotic looking actor, and I've come to like him a lot, having seen him in a number of vintage TV shows lately, many from Hitchcock. With better luck and, needless to say, health, I can see a potential for a career as a character star. He had a take charge-big guy charisma along the lines of Telly Savalas. I was sorry to read that he died fairly young.<br /><br />Jack Ging, as the police detective who becomes a late in the episode hero, was capable, though it was a thankless role in many ways. I've always liked him as an actor, and he seems at his best somewhat under stress, as a young under-achiever who needs a break. His part could likely have been played as well by any number of other actors (William Reynolds, Richard Long). <br /><br />Overall, well as I thought of Keep Me Company I had all but forgotten the Big Reveal of the last act at the end! I remembered that something was up with the husband, not quite the extent of it. If I were a professional critic I'd rate this a first rate journeyman episode, and a good study of its two main characters in a marriage far worse than it looks in the early scenes.john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.com