''Alfred Hitchcock presents'' was 30 minutes long,which was a perfect length.
This later show,the "Alfred Hitchcock Hour",is often too long for the actual story. Usually,the hour-long shows have time-wasting,
repetitive chit-chat and so forth to burn-up film. This episode is unfortunately a sad example of exactly this. Here is a great story that is greatly diminished by all sorts of time-wasting tomfoolery. It is truly a shame,because the actual original story itself is solid. Hour-long shows should not be made from short stories, I say.
As another reviewer pointed out,it is a shame that Hitchcock is even associated with this convoluted nonsense.
Review of The Monkey's Paw--A Retelling
