Reunites Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield from Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and Randall even plays an ad man again. He's got a hangover and can't remember what he did. There was a Cornell Woolrich story with that plot but this one is based on a story by John D MacDonald.
Randall is excellent and believable in his descent to murder. Mansfield is quite good - better than the actor who plays Randall's wife. Mansfield's short hair is a shock and it works for the reality of her performance.
It didn't need to be an hour. It feels like half an hour. I thought it would be Randall retracing his steps and he does a bit of that but there's no real accumulation of narrative. It's more, he was on the piss, remembers how he stuffs up, accidentally kills his wife.
Worth a watch though esp for that Randall-Mansfield re-teaming.
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