"The West Warlock Time Capsule" is an okay installment of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". I say okay because you know exactly what is going to happen...and because Hitchcock's epilogue helped ruin the story as well.
George Tiffany (Henry Jones) is a taxidermist who is creating a stuffed horse for a bizarre ceremony involving a time capsule placed within (huh???). As he works on this huge project, his brother-in-law, Waldren, comes for what is less of a visit and more of an extended period of mooching and drinking. But Waldren has his sister's number...as he's convinced her he's sick and she wears herself out taking care of the bum. It got so bad that she even passed out due to stress and fatigue...and the doctor recommends that George get rid of Waldren....and you can figure out exactly what's coming next....which is a major problem...you know EXACTLY what he'll do long before it happens. And, to make it worse, Hitchcock in the epilogue announces that George was caught for this murder...something he did too often in the epilogues. No suspense and a moralistic ending which really made no sense and only seemed to be there to appease folks who insisted that crime be punished. About the only thing that you like is to know that the parasitical brother-in-law is dead.
George Tiffany (Henry Jones) is a taxidermist who is creating a stuffed horse for a bizarre ceremony involving a time capsule placed within (huh???). As he works on this huge project, his brother-in-law, Waldren, comes for what is less of a visit and more of an extended period of mooching and drinking. But Waldren has his sister's number...as he's convinced her he's sick and she wears herself out taking care of the bum. It got so bad that she even passed out due to stress and fatigue...and the doctor recommends that George get rid of Waldren....and you can figure out exactly what's coming next....which is a major problem...you know EXACTLY what he'll do long before it happens. And, to make it worse, Hitchcock in the epilogue announces that George was caught for this murder...something he did too often in the epilogues. No suspense and a moralistic ending which really made no sense and only seemed to be there to appease folks who insisted that crime be punished. About the only thing that you like is to know that the parasitical brother-in-law is dead.