A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.
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- TriviaThe title refers to the last alcoholic drink the patron has before he or she leaves the bar, restaurant or his or her host's residence. Also a line in the song "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" that is a popular song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the 1943 musical "The Sky's the Limit" (1943) and a standard sung by Frank Sinatra.
- GoofsIn the last scene when she hands him the coffee cup, it is less than half full. When he hands it back and she puts it down on the tray and adds the sugar, it is full again.
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[introduction]
Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is standing locked in a stockade] Good evening. Methinks I should never have come to the colonies.
[opens hands briefly]
Alfred Hitchcock: Here I am, the producer's dream, a captive audience.
[camera moves in to a tighter shot of Hitchcock]
Alfred Hitchcock: Unfortunately, knowing the producer, I have already seen tonight's story several times. It is called, "One for the Road." They say there are two sides to every question, but tonight's little problem has three sides. For it is that age old bit of marital geometry, the eternal triangle.
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Written by Charles Gounod
Vintage Hitchcock. It's a stellar cast, but I particularly like Louise Platt as the dowdy, put- upon wife. Her eyes are especially expressive. Watch her emotions run the gamut from abject devotion to hardened resolve, all in convincing fashion. Her character is the epitome of the wronged woman. Actress Platt had an odd, abbreviated career that peaked with the classic Stagecoach (1939), but she definitely had the talent as demonstrated here.
And what a perfect two-timing louse Baragrey makes. There's enough oil in his performance to create a major spill. Wondering how poetic justice will eventually deal with his smug self- absorption is worth waiting for. And Georgeann Johnson as the blonde "other woman" creates a surprisingly sympathetic character who also believes in one last chance.
Anyway, in my book, this is classic 50's Hitchcock, with its suggestion of criminal potential among non-criminal types as mundane as a suburban family. It's an episode that may also make you think twice about that last cup of coffee.
(In passing—if you were the law, how would you apportion guilt. Seems to me like it's something of a legal conundrum, given the facts of who did what.)
- dougdoepke
- Jun 9, 2010
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1