![]() The rooms seemed barely furnished, the set dressing perfunctory. The series as a whole always had a parched look. Hitchcock was notoriously "mean", as the British put it, meaning he was tight with his pennies. He knows that they are being chased by two murderers as he drives Katherine to border, but he insists on pulling off the road to "think about it" and maybe have a little lunch. As an actor, he comes across as simple minded. Randy Boone may be a splendid country singer. On the other hand, Katherine Crawford, a blond teen ager, is cute enough in a thoroughly conventional way, and Michael Wilding and Anna Lee as the parents are accomplished actors. Furthermore, how drowsy must you be to go to sleep in the back seat of someone else's car after mistaking it for your own? Any normal person would have to be stoned out of her mind. If you can't stand the chili, get out of the cocina. Katherine has no business being in the little village of La Cucaracha or whatever it is. Even the chili a kind lady gives her is "poco piquante." She meets a nice boy, Randy Boone, and he tries to help her get straight. She gets into the wrong car! The car belongs to a couple of crooks and Katherine wakes up just in time to witness a murder, escape from the car, and find herself adrift in a small town across the Mexican border, pursued by the two murders, unable to speak Spanish, and - well, I don't know, everything is just WRONG. (They're English.) Sleepy Katherine says she's going back to sleep in the car and wait for Mom and Dad. Katherine Crawford and her parents are traveling through Arizona and stop for tea in a roadside cafe. Just don't give plot developments too much thought. All in all, it's a suspenseful hour, helped along by Crawford's compelling turn (catch the palpable feeling she projects as she parts with Pete, ). It's also good to see that fine actress Anna Lee picking up a payday, along with the sinister James Anderson whose diner is not exactly a Denny's. I expect actor Wilding did a rather minor role (Loren's dad) as a favor to fellow Englishman Hitchcock. But that's okay since we're wrapped up in vulnerable Loren's predicament. There's good suspense in the premise, even though it and many story developments are not very plausible. ![]() Poor Loren, she's a real damsel in distress, but where will her white knight come from. But everything she tries seems to backfire, while she's being chased by every low-life along the border because she's witnessed a murder. No wonder pretty blonde teen Loren is freaking out, as she tries to get back to her parents in Arizona after mistakenly taking a wrong car to Mexico. In Hitch's world, it's populated by car strippers, corrupt cops, and a nightmare Mexican town where the sun never shines. Guess I won't be going to the Arizona-Mexico border anytime soon. But the show is riveting and exciting to watch.and I generally was able to ignore a few instances where it didn't seem especially plausible nor well thought out. It just doesn't make any sense for several reasons. As I mentioned above, several things in the episode don't quite work.such as bursting across the Mexican border into America late in the show. Once there, she awakens.to witness seeing them kill a man! Through the rest of the episode, she tries to evade the ruthless gang and the parents desperately look for her. However, their young daughter goes back to the car to sleep before the parents finish their food.and she gets into the wrong car! The one she's in is being driven by crooks.and she ends up being accidentally driven into Mexico. ![]() An English family is driving across America and decide to stop at a cafe in a tiny Arizona town. "Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans" is a harrowing episode of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", though I must admit that it has quite a instances where there are plot rious plot problems.
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