If we be allowed a word about the '57 episode THE WEST WARLOCK TIME CAPSULE, a Teleplay by Marian Cockrell based on a story by Cahn, with Henry Jones and Mildred Dunnock; Hitchcock makes his offices with his usual wit and wryness. This episode, brilliantly Hitchcockian, opens with the master's _divagations about taxidermy and hunt and shooting Santa Claus, to go on with scenes of a marriage of two mild oldsters—a taxidermist and his wife; the man is devoted to his craft, and prepares a quadruped to offer it to the town's museum, when this family receives the visit of a nuisance—the wife's brother, a fat, lazy, rude and disgusting fellow who pretends being ill only to live with these relatives and to wreck their lives with his antics and whims and gluttony.
The West Warlock Time Capsule registers as one of the best episodes of Hitchcock's TV show; briskly narrated, with the usual note of strangeness, it benefits from Jones' extraordinary performance and _expressivity—his physiognomy allowing for both ends to be attained—the devilish cruelty, and the provincial boredom and routine of a soft—spoken citizen , so that this episode perfectly expresses Hitchcock's idea of fun—the gruesomeness and the ingenuity and a certain nakedness of what is more horrible in the facts.
The West Warlock Time Capsule registers as one of the best episodes of Hitchcock's TV show; briskly narrated, with the usual note of strangeness, it benefits from Jones' extraordinary performance and _expressivity—his physiognomy allowing for both ends to be attained—the devilish cruelty, and the provincial boredom and routine of a soft—spoken citizen , so that this episode perfectly expresses Hitchcock's idea of fun—the gruesomeness and the ingenuity and a certain nakedness of what is more horrible in the facts.