Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Young One (1957)
Season 3, Episode 9
6/10
"It's easy to be honest with strangers."
6 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Did you notice the sign on the wall at the Wooly Bear Road House that stated - 'No Boisterous Conduct Allowed'? You think that ever happened?

Well, this episode of Hitchcock Presents plays like a bad soap opera. The self centered teen Janice (Carol Lynley) has no qualms about doing whatever it takes to get out from under her Aunt Mae's (Jeanette Nolan) thumb, and will use anyone to help her do it. Since her boyfriend Stan (Stephen Joyce) is a little more level headed, she turns her attention to a stranger passing through (Vince Edwards), with an evil scheme as part of her backup plan if he won't simply whisk her away. Quite honestly, I was shocked at the way Jannie set up the unsuspecting Tex (Edwards) with her frantic appeal to the local sheriff (Rusty Lane). You really have to have a twisted mind to do what she did to someone she didn't even know. This episode's title actually could have been called "The Wild One", but Brando had already put his stamp on that one.
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