gene phillips wrote:
I taped ISWYD off Svengoolie the other night, and the "murder scene" baffles me.

Let's see-- the prankster girls call. They get Ireland's wife while he's in the shower. She goes to get him and finds that he's torn up a lotta crap in the bathroom, which she interprets as a demonstration of his jealousy. She chews him out through the shower door. He yanks her in with him and kills her. THEN, on top of that, neighbor lady Joan Crawford just--wanders in as if she has her own key to the house, or at least is accustomed to being there???

In what universe does this sequence of events make sense? Next to this Castle's other movies are as rigorous as Agatha Christie tales.
Logic knocked on the door, but Mr. Castle never answered.  He had a cigar to smoke.

I'm guessing his move to Universal meant a slightly higher budgets for his films and subsequently for the producer, so from that viewpoint it was good for him.  However, the fun shocks and the gimmicks of the Columbia days seem to have vanished.

I mean... come on.  The big "gimmick" of THE NIGHT WALKER was putting Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor together, since they'd been married 20 years before, and divorced for ten.  What ticket-buyer under the age of 60 gave two flips about that?