Comments On “The Hangover” A Great “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” Episode

Someone in “Comments” writing about a superb, 1962 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, impressed with a great note that I will insert later.

Tony Randall stars and excels as an advertising executive who is an alcoholic. Jayne Mansfield, less than 5 years before her tragic death and in the episode which aired a scant 4 months after Marilyn Monroe died, gives an excellent performance.

Most times, Mr. Hitchcock joked in some manner before and after episodes of this great show. After “The Hangover,” he not only refrained from doing so, but also cited alcoholism as the serious problem it always will be. He also passed on humor and commented on the serious problem of juvenile delinquency in another episode.

Below the anonymous comment/excellent note. However, the movie with Lemmon was “Days and Wine and Roses,” released in December, twenty days after the episode aired. It was 10 years until Lemmon’s magnificent performance, not as an alcoholic, in “Save The Tiger.”

Yet thanks for the IMDB comment below, mistakes and all.

Very well done. If there were any sort of ironies is that the other Felix Unger, Jack Lemmon from the film version, just a few years later played a hapless drunk in ‘Save the Tiger’. Randall was at his best in this episode.

Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall are pictured above.