Alfred Hitchcock Presents A Woman's Help (1955–1962) watch online HD

A delicious episode of competing intrigues. Mrs. Burton (Fitzgerald) is a petty-tyrant invalid with money who keeps her fecklessly handsome husband (McKay) on a short leash. Into this unhappy household arrives nubile nurse Greco (Bower) as full-time help for the demanding wife. Unsurprisingly, hubby wants a share of nurse's ministrations too, but Greco wants a wedding ring first, while hubby refuses to divorce his wealthy wife. It's a classic set-up for the intrigues that follow.

Fine, clever script (Slesar) with a darkly amusing upshot. McKay delivers an effectively shaded turn as the gigolo husband; ditto Fitzgerald as the domineering wife. Together, their maneuvering provides a real lift to familiar material. Note how initially we're led to identify with the put-upon husband, that is, until his own devious nature emerges. After that, we can better understand the wife's sardonic attitude. In fact, this is an episode without a sympathetic character to identify with. So that ending may be emotionally satisfying, but it's still worth pondering whether poetic justice is served. Anyway, this half-hour shows how the series could breathe life into even the tritest of plots.

Geraldine Fitzgerald and Scott McKay play a wealthy but unhappily married couple; she's a demanding invalid and he's sick of nursing her. As the episode begins, it's obvious that the two haven't been in love with other since their honeymoon. Finally, it's decided that they bring in a twenty-four hour round-the-clock nurse to tend to Ms. Fitzgerald. That turns out to be good-looking Antoinette Bower. It doesn't take long before Scott and Antoinette fall for each other in a big way. Since this is vintage Hitchcock, their first order of business is to knock off unsuspecting Geraldine so they can live happily ever after. But the persistent and irritable Geraldine catches the lovers "in the act" and demands that her philandering husband get rid of Ms. Bower who is summarily fired. Since McKay interviewed the first round of nurses and chose Antoinette, Ms. Fitzgerald takes it upon herself to select her own "Woman's Help" from the latest batch of candidates. When McKay arrives home after the "selection" process is completed, his wife laughs at him derisively because the new nurse isn't exactly a bathing beauty. Instead, she's a frumpy old lady who looks like somebody's mother. As it turns out, she IS somebody's mother...and the real joke is on Ms. Fitzgerald. As they say, he who laughs last---laughs best. The plot for "A Woman's Help" is indeed "Standard" Hitchcock, but still well-executed by the cast and worth watching. It was directed by the prolific Arthur Hiller whose later career in films stands up to nearly everyone in his field. The great Irish beauty, Geraldine Fitzgerald, was a star for many years and only left us recently. Antoinette Bower is still a working actress and is seen occasionally on television. Scott McKay had a long and distinguished career and was a fine actor in his own right.