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Mildred Natwick plays a woman who has lived a sheltered life in Britain. Oddly, she suddenly decides in her middle age to go to Paris where she ends up having a surprising adventure...an adventure in the hotel in which she stays. It all begins after she takes a bath and like in many older hotels, the bathroom is not connected to the hotel room. When she returns to her room, she makes the mistake of entering the wrong room...a room in which a dead man is lying in bed!! And, to make it worse (and contrived) the door knob falls off and she's stuck with the dead guy. What's next? See the show.

While the outline sounds really neat, the show isn't. There really is no interesting twist at the end and the show was very dull despite the plot idea. Worth seeing, perhaps, but far from a must-see episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".

Something tells me this might be an episode that you might find the viewers divided. Some might find the episode boring because all Miss Bracegirdle does in this episode is worry herself to death. Or you might have some people that might find Miss Bracegirdle funny because of the peculiar way she acts.

I'm somebody that didn't find the episode boring or funny. It was an interesting story but unfortunately I can relate to Miss Bracegirdles worrying nature. Although I'll say Miss Bracegirdle does have some strength. She took this trip to Paris all by herself. That's a pretty brave/big move for somebody that probably never left the area she was born at. Doesn't matter if she's doing it because she's doing her duty or not. Fact is she did it.

But Miss Bracegirdle has a few difficulties thrown at her. She arrives at the hotel she's staying at and she wants to take a bath. She takes her bath but she gets lost on her way back to her room. She ends up in the room with a man that's a total stranger! Even worse, a part broke off the door knob and she's locked in. She's embarrassed and absolutely horrified at all this. Several scenes show her debating herself on what to do. One scene had the woman so nervous about this that she ends up under the man's bed. She eventually comes out from under the bed and decides to just wake the sleeping man up. New problem: the man isn't asleep, he's dead. Miss Bracegirdle panics some more. She's got to get out of this room! She sees some sealing wax and she starts to melt some so she can see if she can pull that piece of the door knob closer to her so she can attach the door knob again and get out. The poor lady sat there for hours but she managed to get it done.

She rushed back to her room and that's when she panics again. She'll have to go back to that man's room in order to get back her personal belongings that she left behind. She goes back and gets her things and picks up the stuff she used in order to get the doorknob back working.

It's morning and the hotel staff are serving tea or coffee to people. A lady comes into Miss Bracegirdle's room and she confides to Miss Bracegirdle about the man being dead in the nearby room. But there's more to the story than that! This deceased man was a killer! The lady goes back out and Miss Bracegirdle's horrified when a male hotel employee comes into her room. She was fully dressed in her night clothes but she still makes a mad dash to the bed so she can cover herself up more. The guy ends up pulling a stocking Miss Bracegirdle left behind and winking at Miss Bracegirdle, almost as if to say 'You're secret's safe with me.'