Not the best entry in the hour Hitchcock series. Tony Randall was fine, but this "play" progressed quite slowly; would've been better- suited for one of Hitch's 30 minute episodes a la "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." The single-most redeeming aspect of "The Hangover" was the sight of voluptuous Jayne Mansfield. Shedding her usual gargantuan, stiff hairdo, she sported a short,Italian cut popular at the time. I don't think she ever looked more attractive. Her acting was very decent; actually, I'd say it was quite good.
The show ended with Hitchcock preaching against the evils of alcoholism.This message was quite ironic,I thought, because in the majority of his two series-- hundreds of episodes, I would venture to speculate, one or more characters eventually grabbed a bottle of booze and mixed a drink in their home in suburbia or sat at a public bar and tossed back a few. In its own way, the show PROMOTED drinking/alcoholism-- just as it did smoking (as did many movies and TV shows of that era).
The show ended with Hitchcock preaching against the evils of alcoholism.This message was quite ironic,I thought, because in the majority of his two series-- hundreds of episodes, I would venture to speculate, one or more characters eventually grabbed a bottle of booze and mixed a drink in their home in suburbia or sat at a public bar and tossed back a few. In its own way, the show PROMOTED drinking/alcoholism-- just as it did smoking (as did many movies and TV shows of that era).