User Reviews

"The Tip" lives up to the title of this series, as the 1/2 hour is packed solidly with suspense in a familiar variation on the "Gaslight" type of tale.

It's fairly easy to suss out the secret gimmick in the story, as Felicia Montealegre plays a wife with a weak heart, who is not believed when she tells her husband and family doctor of a stalker (Stanley Ridges) she's seen lurking outside her window.

When the stalker actually shows up inside her apartment and holds her hostage at gunpoint, waiting for her husband to come home and confront him over some unspecified grudge, the suspense builds and is sustained, until a wonderfully condensed climax scene loaded with twists and turns.

It's a delightful show, only marred by the insistent organ music on the soundtrack. Ridges makes for a fine villain in one of his final roles, while Ben Cooper makes a solid impression at the beginning of his career.

I was surprised after viewing to read in IMDb that the unfamiliar leading lady (who is terrific in expressing fear) was married for three decades to no less than Leonard Bernstein!

I don't understand. According to IMDb this episode was made for radio and then remade twice--once for the radio and once for the television versions of "Suspense". And, what I don't understand is why? This wasn't a very good episode, as it's full of overly familiar story elements as well as has a very dumb plot. After all, it's basically inspired by GASLIGHT and, in particular, SORRY WRONG NUMBER.

The show involves a nervous wife with a heart condition. She swears she's seen someone lurking on the property but instead of believing her, the husband calls the doctor and acts as if she's losing her mind. This is a HUGE giveaway that the husband is up to no good and nothing about what follows comes as any surprise. Later, when a man later invades the house and tells her he's going to murder her husband the wife pretty much does nothing but do what he says. Again, no surprises here.