"Ambition" is the final episode of season six of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and it's a story of a District Attorney (Leslie Nielsen) who happens to owe a big debt to a local gangster (Harold Stone). But it's not a financial debt....it's that during the war, the gangster saved the future DA's life!
When the story begins, the DA has lined up a witness who might be able to crush organized crime in this unnamed town. But the mayor and others are unsure if the DA has the guts or honesty to take on organized crime since they are aware of the relationship the DA used to have with the leader of this gang. So does the DA prove his honesty or does he throw the case or is there a third alternative?
This is a good but not great episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". And, as at least one other reviewer pointed out, a District Attorney is a job that involves politics and many folks use it as a launch pad for political ambitions. Enjoyable.
When the story begins, the DA has lined up a witness who might be able to crush organized crime in this unnamed town. But the mayor and others are unsure if the DA has the guts or honesty to take on organized crime since they are aware of the relationship the DA used to have with the leader of this gang. So does the DA prove his honesty or does he throw the case or is there a third alternative?
This is a good but not great episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". And, as at least one other reviewer pointed out, a District Attorney is a job that involves politics and many folks use it as a launch pad for political ambitions. Enjoyable.