She served him dinner. Then served him justice. Weapon? Eaten.
An enraged detective's wife kills her husband by smashing in his skull with a heavy blunt instrument - but no murder weapon can be found, and the police are baffled.
Acting
Susan George's chillingly calm transformation from victim to architect.
Writing
Roald Dahl's razor-sharp irony—every line a trap.
Direction
Davies lets horror live in the mundane, never sensationalizing.
Director
John Howard Davies
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brian Blessed—yes, SHOUTY Brian Blessed—plays it surprisingly restrained as the lead detective, making his obliviousness even funnier.
Roald Dahl originally wrote this as a short story in 1953; Alfred Hitchcock Presents adapted it first, but this version lets the camera linger on Mary's performance in ways television couldn't in 1958.
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