Review of Premonition

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Premonition (1955)
Season 1, Episode 2
8/10
Another quality episode!
24 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Episode 2 starts with Musician and Pianist Kim Stanger (John Forsythe) who returns home after a tour in Europe. Kim for some reason feels as if he's somehow being pulled there by mysterious circumstance. His main reason for being back is to see his father, who he hasn't had the best relationship with in the past. After his family acts strange around him, he is told that his father died four years earlier of a heart attack while playing tennis. However, Kim finds evidence that proves that his father was murdered and goes on a manhunt to find out the culprit, little does he know its someone he knows all to well...

This one was the first of 44 episodes to be directed by series veteran Robert Stevens, who was the only director on the series to win an Emmy for his work. Stevens does a great job building up the tension, and actor John Forsythe does a heck of a job as the protagonist. Cloris Leachman also appears here looking so young you cant hardly recognize her. Great actors Warren Stevens and George Macready also appear and do a fine job. The twist is nice and final scene is done very well, glad to see the series still going strong into episode 2.
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