"O Youth and Beauty!" is certainly NOT among the better episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". It's depressing and the big twist really didn't make a lot of sense.
When the story begins, Cash (Gary Merrill) is with his wife at a country club. Oddly, the various men there began bating Cash...making fun of the fact that he's a has-been. It seems in his youth, Cash had been a champion hurdler...and now these jerks are trying to get him to demonstrate his hurdling skills right there in the club. He obliges them and instead of enjoying his triumph, he sulks because at heart, he also is a jerk.
Later, after LOTS of brooding, Cash once again decides to set up a course in his house and runs about like a teenager jumping his homemade hurdles...and ends up breaking his leg. After months of rehab and sulking, he returns to the country club but instead of enjoying it, he sulks once again.
When they return home, Cash insists on doing his homemade hurdling course again...at which time tragedy strikes....mostly because his wife is apparently rather dim.
The story is only marginally interesting...mostly because you didn't like anyone. Additionally, the twist is lame (making little sense) and the double they used to run for Merrill was incredibly obvious in one of the scenes...laughably so. All in all, they really seemed to have slapped this one together...and it's not well constructed or even that interesting.
When the story begins, Cash (Gary Merrill) is with his wife at a country club. Oddly, the various men there began bating Cash...making fun of the fact that he's a has-been. It seems in his youth, Cash had been a champion hurdler...and now these jerks are trying to get him to demonstrate his hurdling skills right there in the club. He obliges them and instead of enjoying his triumph, he sulks because at heart, he also is a jerk.
Later, after LOTS of brooding, Cash once again decides to set up a course in his house and runs about like a teenager jumping his homemade hurdles...and ends up breaking his leg. After months of rehab and sulking, he returns to the country club but instead of enjoying it, he sulks once again.
When they return home, Cash insists on doing his homemade hurdling course again...at which time tragedy strikes....mostly because his wife is apparently rather dim.
The story is only marginally interesting...mostly because you didn't like anyone. Additionally, the twist is lame (making little sense) and the double they used to run for Merrill was incredibly obvious in one of the scenes...laughably so. All in all, they really seemed to have slapped this one together...and it's not well constructed or even that interesting.