In keeping with the irony of so many Hitchcock episodes, this one could have gone either of two ways. The way it DID end was one solution, and one you could see coming after panicked college student Alan (Burt Brinckerhoff) felt he had to find a way to deal with the unfortunate 'accident' of killing his friend Mark (Duke Howard). But the other way would have been to turn the tables on the whole gang after Mark revived from the injection of that mythical phenoboride that Robert (Joel Crothers) came up with. Then both of them could have pulled the same burial stunt that freaked everyone out. However, that wouldn't have allowed Hitchcock his usual closing remark about how the perpetrators didn't get away with their vicious prank. Probably the best thing about this story is catching future horror queen actress Barbara Steele in a somewhat more sedate role. Oddly, in her very next movie appearance, she portrayed the wife of "The Horrible Dr. Hichcock"!
Review of Beta Delta Gamma
