The thing that always gets me in stories like this, is how an otherwise smart guy like Walter King (Phillip Reed), business partner of the murdered Baldwin (Sebastian Cabot), never figures that the guy who killed the victim, could possibly at some point come after him with a similar motivation. In this case, it was the SAME motivation; Mr. Stepp (John Qualen) took a gun to King because the guy fired him after twenty years of service to the company, just like Baldwin did. Then of course, Stepp leaves the office as nonchalantly and upbeat as could be, totally opposite of the way he felt right after killing Baldwin when he went on a weekend sleeping jag, and would have been canned for sure if a secretary from the office hadn't called him back to work. I don't know, I do like the kind of irony Hitchcock's stories often presented, but this one was skewed in two different directions. Hitch's opening monologue here was the best part.
Review of A Bullet for Baldwin
