Our host Hitchcock display an extinct language to stablish the episode title, he somehow put it willfully the subject on black humor oriented, the clever Hitch also implied on the storyline a human gossips as guideline, pretty sure a dark humorous introduced by latin De Mortuis.
The old and fat Prof. Rankin (Robert Emhardt) was working in his cellar fulfilling a hole as cement, meanwhile arrive there his two buddies of fishing, Wally Long (Henry Jones) and Bud (Philip Coolidge) to aiming for fishing with them, nonetheless Rankin denied for be so tired on the hard work on such seller, whilst Wally and Bud is taking a coffee at kitchen alone they starting figure out why the hell Rankin had digged such hole and aftermaths fillet out it as cement, when asked by doing such thing he states that fixing some leaking of water from underground.
In the meantime Wally and Bud try implied Rankin's wife Irene (Cara Williams) bad behavior on her life due she really is a unfaithful young woman, both talking about last happenings involving Irene, sadly Prof. Rankin hears the whispers and watch it as a gossip or a bitter true, their friends grumble it so hard themselves that Prof. Rankin decides do something about.
De Mortuis is a fabulous episode leaving the Alfred Hitchcock Presents trademark, moreover the story is stunning doing justice with this valuable series, one the best at this point and have a solid casting as Robert Emhardt, Cara Williams, Henry Jones and Philip Coolidge that were often a regular guest casting in several shows!!
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.