(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. John L."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.Carlos Romero - cast: Alfau Mexican Chief of Police.Frank Albertson - cast: Constable Tom Batterman.Russ Conway - cast: Henderson Customs Insp.Katherine Crawford - cast: Loren Saunders.Alfred Hitchcock - cast: Himself - Host.Amber Dean - novel "Encounter with Evil".The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Complete First Season - Madman Entertainment (Australia, 2013)Īlfred Hitchcock Zeigt: Teil 1 - Koch Media Home Entertainment (Germany, 2008) ![]() ![]() Later Loren reunites his her family at the cafe. ![]() Eventually the criminals find her, but she manages to get away with the help of a friendly rancher named Pete Tanner. She is spotted before she can get away and the criminal begin to search for her as do her parents. Thing get worse for Loren when the car deal goes awry and she witnesses a murder. She gets into a stolen car that is headed for Mexico. Unfortunately she get into the wrong car. Since Loren cannot stay awake she heads to the car and goes to sleep in the backseat. They stop at a cafe in Arizona late one evening. Visiting from Englad, David Saunders is making a cross-country tour of America by car with his wife Roberta and their daughter Loren. "Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans" was originally broadcast on 19/Apr/1963 as part of the first season of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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