This episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" is unusual in that you have a teenager who is actually played by a teenager! In so many films and television shows, teens are played by 21-35 year-olds and it's pretty ridiculous. See such films as "The Blog" and "Teenagers From Outer Space" and you'll see what I mean....leads who are old enough to have several kids or almost old enough to have grandkids! In this case, Carol Lynley is 15 and plays Janice, a girl who wants to become an adult way, way too quickly. And her actually being the correct age is good casting and improves the episode as it makes it more believable and frightening.
When the story begins, Janice is on a date with her boyfriend. The waiter brings them lemonades....after Janice tried ordering alcohol! And, she responds by whining about how unfair it is that they have rules and how they shouldn't apply to her. She then begins flirting with a much older (Vince Edwards). When she gets home, she continues along the same vein--complaining and whining to her aunt about how she wants to be treated like a woman. She's pretty hysterical, very annoying and you can't help but think that Janice is in for a terrible fall if she continues this way. Later, she returns to the bar at the beginning of the show and once again starts trying to vamp the man in the bar, Tex (Edwards). What's next for this brat? See the show for yourself.
While I don't think the big twist was all that wonderful, this is a wonderful portrait of an Antisocial (or perhaps Borderling) personality. Sadly, there are folks like Janice in the world and the scriptwriter sure did a good job here, as did an amazingly good Lynley.
When the story begins, Janice is on a date with her boyfriend. The waiter brings them lemonades....after Janice tried ordering alcohol! And, she responds by whining about how unfair it is that they have rules and how they shouldn't apply to her. She then begins flirting with a much older (Vince Edwards). When she gets home, she continues along the same vein--complaining and whining to her aunt about how she wants to be treated like a woman. She's pretty hysterical, very annoying and you can't help but think that Janice is in for a terrible fall if she continues this way. Later, she returns to the bar at the beginning of the show and once again starts trying to vamp the man in the bar, Tex (Edwards). What's next for this brat? See the show for yourself.
While I don't think the big twist was all that wonderful, this is a wonderful portrait of an Antisocial (or perhaps Borderling) personality. Sadly, there are folks like Janice in the world and the scriptwriter sure did a good job here, as did an amazingly good Lynley.