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George and Lucky both have a couple things in common. Both are crooks and both hate each other. When Lucky begins horning in on George's rackets, George confronts him and kills him. This is a problem, as practically everyone knows they hate each other and George is bound to be the prime suspect. So George runs from person to person trying to establish an alibi...and in each case, the person isn't able to or won't alibi this young thug. Because he's a jerk, it's really hard to feel sorry for the guy!

I really liked the twist in this one. The best episodes have this wonderful twist....and here it felt very satisfying...and again, as I said above, because George is a real jerk and watching bad things happen to him are a hoot!

Entertaining, if not riveting, entry. Slickster Georgie (Phillips) has a long time feud with rival gangster Lucky (Chandler). Trouble is Lucky cuts in on Georgie's pinball territory so Georgie confronts the interloper who believes the slickster's too soft to do anything. Then Lucky arrogantly mocks him. Big mistake. Georgie shoots the sneering son-of-a- gun. But now he's got a bigger problem because cop Larkin will immediately suspect him. Now he needs an alibi, and fast.

Interest is in watching desperate Georgie bounce from one potential alibi to the next. It's kind of like a profile of his life, and indicates why he's being hung out to dry. Outstanding is unknown actress Shirley Smith as cheap blonde Goldie, reminding me a bit of Shelley Winters. Her broken desires are indeed touching. At spectrum's other end is Chick Chandler who spreads on his loathsome character with a trowel. Payoff is deliciously ironic, something about it not paying to be a tightwad.

Season 2 had yet to have an episode above good, the best (such as "Fog Closing In") being good but not great. Compared to the quite strong start that the first season enjoyed, Season 2 up to this point was a bit of a disappointment (especially with its very underwhelming first episode) and generally wasn't as strong a season. The best of the previous Season 2 episodes were good, but about half of the previous episodes were slightly above average or less.

While a long way from being one of the best outings of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' and not my definition of great, "Alibi Me" is still well worth watching and is one of the better episodes of Season 2 up to this still quite early stage. It is the first of three outings directed by Jules Bricken, the other two being the next episode "Conversation over a Corpse" and "The Three Dreams of Mr Findlater", also worth a look.

"Alibi Me" has a lot to like. It is a slick looking episode with some nice atmospheric lighting in particular and while Bricken's direction is not what one calls imaginative or distinguished it is at least assured and not indicative of someone out of his depth. The music is haunting enough and the main theme is memorably macabre, keep saying that it is one of the best uses of pre-existing classical music in television and still stand by that. Hitchcock's contribution is amusingly ironic.

The first half is intriguing and tense with an unexpected and clever ending, while the script has the right amount of edge and entertainment value. Lee Phillips carries the episode with great assurance and Chick Chandler was clearly enjoying himself thoroughly.

Did feel though that the second half wasn't as strong, it intrigues enough still but the pace slackens and too much of it is also far fetched

Everything with the police detective was hard to swallow and quite silly. Also felt that more suspense was needed, everything here is present and correct but just lacks the extra something.

Overall, good but not great. 7/10.

A man walks upstairs to the final movement of the Moonlight Sonata, played in another room. He enters a door labeled "Brooklyn Amusement Corp." But this is a front and this is a gangster episode. A man pulls a "rod" (gun) on someone and we get our killing early, so the tale is about his post facto need for an alibi.

The actor who voiced Fred Flinstone pops up looking like Tony Soprano's uncle (he acted a lot in those days, including the original Postman Always Rings Twice).

I like the ending as written, but the slack story has lost all its energy by the time we get there.

Yes, unlike many other episodes of the series, this one is sad for my taste, especially in the twist ending...I felt Something weird in my mouth, Something that I am not used to in this series. I won't spoil it any further...besides, those two people, meeting again after twenty years, whilst they were in their Young years, i find this corny, because Jessica Tandy and her co star look more in their early sixties - at best- in this story than in their forties. Don't forget they were supposed to be really young when they knew each other before...So, it would have been better that the screenwriters chhose - let's say - thirty or forty years in between, instead of twenty. That's my opinion.

Rarely Hitch did a bad intro like this time, nothing to do with the story about to come, two crooks guys a notorious enemies from the past, the younger one Georgie (Lee Philips) threatens kill Lucky (Chick Chandler) due him put a pinball machine at your territory, on what Lucky doesn't give a sh.it, remembering George what Lt. James Larkin said about themselves years ago, if anyone of both come to die he'll charge the survivor for such crime, despite the warning George kills Lucky anyhow, now he needs an fair alibi, sadly whenever he asking for someone he caught in a mistake whereof he did.

He looking for his former girlfriend that accepts at once, unfortunately the girl finds out a stri.pper's photo at your jacket, aftermaths he meets an uncle which he helped in the past time, by mentioning the hardline Lt. James Larkin he refuses by any means, in another attempt he meets a sick friend recovering process at hospital, he aware his ill old friend concerning a reliable alibi which he agrees for old times, woefully the sick man has a heart attack instantly, this last hope should be your old landlady (Argentina Brunetti) the faltering lady is coerced to certified his alibi whereof he standing there all day long to Lt. James Larkin, not so fast worst is about to come on delivery boy.

Aside all flaws on those contrived happenings the unluck murder felt the bad taste at your mouth on every step chasing for an alibi, highly entertainment black humor oriented offering from the master Hitchcock.

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

The whole premise of this episode is so lacking in reality. First of all, there's a police detective who has openly stated that if one of two men die violently, he will go after the other. Of course, the principle character offs the other guy and then must begin to come up with an alibi. He is so inept. First he tries a restaurant owner who he has helped in the past. This is too risky for the guy. Then he goes to a former girlfriend. Of course, she finds a provocative picture of a chorus girl type and she realizes she is being used. Not to a man who is dying of a heart condition. The point is that unless the police are a bunch of total idiots, he would have left a trail of evidence to convict him. I won't spoil the ending. Let me just say that the encounter with the police detective is beyond belief. I see this as a hopeless, throwaway episode with little to offer.