Another great episode of that fascinating TV series "The Hitchcock Hour", which surprised us every time with a different kind of story, a different kind of atmosphere... Now, in this case, the story was written by Cornell Woolrich, probably one of the 'big four' of the 'hard boiled' school of crime writers together with Hammett, Cain and Chandler: he used to invent gritty and unusual tales about life in the big city - so we might well expect that this one is something like a 'TV Noir'. And it is.
The plot isn't exactly new: a man, after being hit on the head in a dark alley by some thugs, comes to and, helped by some friendly strangers like a cab driver and a drugstore owner, slowly starts to realize that he can't remember the past three years of his life! And of course, that's not enough: there's an unsolved murder involved, too...
Wonderful entertainment especially for Noir fans; a whole 'Film Noir' packed into 45 minutes of TV show length - which makes the plot all the more dense and suspenseful!