The David Niven Show (TV Series) Sticks and Stones (1959) User Reviews

Sticks and Stones

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 23 April 2024]

Twist Thompson (John Ericson) is a top pitcher in major baseball league.

Now facing an uncertain future with his skills declining. He receives a series of anonymous threatening letters.

It further affects his performance on the pitch. His wife Ann is worried about him.

The police get involved. Twist wants to publicise the threats to the press. The detective in charge of the case disagrees. Ann also wants no press involvement.

Only when Twist's wife changes her mind about going to the press. The detective is sure that the problems are close to home.

The police believe Ann write the threatening letters and owns up to it.

Only after the police leave. Ann confronts her husband. The twist is, Twist did it. Hoping to get the crowd on his side now his career is in his decline.

Ann will twist the knife in his back. Sick and tired of playing second fiddle to her cheating celebrity husband for all these years.

I did like how Ann took the blame but then decided that she will expose her husband.

Sweet smell of defeat

[searchanddestroy-1 · 17 July 2012]

Not so bad, this drama tale. We don't assist here at the rise of a sport star, but only at his fall, his problems with all his close friends, police, reporters and family. A kind of bitter story, with a pretty good atmosphere. It looks like a classic movie, but in the short way. You won't find here any thrilling sequences, as you may expect in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents like episode. A pure drama for TV releasing. I don't know the actors. I won't remind this episode very long. Only the ending may be interesting. The jealousy of a neglected wife that explains many unusual behaviors.

The director seems to have worked only for TV industry, and I guess I will see his name again in may TV shows.