It is a story about brothers' mutual hate, and for this they picked two extraordinary actors, who get the most out of the script. The prepared twist, and the 2nd twist, are rather random. Perkins' character isn't selfish or manipulative, but psychotic, a moral evaluation is meaningless. People mostly don't expect anything from him; such is the case with the psychotics, and this enhances the cold void around them. There's a short scene straight out of Hitchcock (Allan driving, during his psychotic breakdown), but otherwise the whole teleplay has a certain restrained Hitchcock feel to it
; the best thing in it are the actors, and they do make us wish to know better what life must have been like in that home before one died and two were injured, it's intriguing, Julie Harris does a masterly role.
There's a tempest, fever, dream sequences, a suggestion of incest (between Katherine and her dad).
There's a tempest, fever, dream sequences, a suggestion of incest (between Katherine and her dad).