"Alibi Me" has a great plot structure with a vicious twist ending and is propelled along at a rapid clip by the manic narration of Mickey Rooney, who plays Georgie. Larkin understands that Georgie's alibi is blown and the messenger boy puts icing on the cake by delivering Julie's final message: "To the biggest sucker in town." Georgie refuses to tip the young man, who complains that he climbed the stairs to Georgie's room twice that morning and three times that afternoon to deliver the gift but Georgie was never in. Larkin grudgingly accepts it and is about to leave when a messenger boy shows up with Julie's gift: an oversized lollipop. At 6:15 p.m., Larkin comes knocking on Georgie's door and Mrs. Ettinger, his landlady, to give him an alibi by threatening to expose her 15-year-old daughter's attempted theft of a fur jacket from a department store. Only 45 minutes are left till Julie will be missed and Larkin will go looking for him and discover his corpse. As the time ticks away, Georgie visits Timmy in the hospital Timmy agrees to alibi Georgie but suddenly dies of a heart attack. With only 95 minutes left till Julie will be missed at his check-in for probation, Georgie visits an old girlfriend named Joanie, who falls for his flattery at first but soon understands that he just wants to use her for an alibi and rejects him. He first visits Leo the bartender, who refuses to provide a false alibi even though he owes Georgie a favor. and understands that he has less than two hours to establish an alibi for the time of the killing. Realizing that he will be the first one suspected for Julie's murder, Georgie sees that it's 4:10 p.m. and dismisses Georgie, who loses his temper and bashes Julie over the head with a telephone receiver, killing him. Julie has to report to Larkin for a parole check-in at 6 p.m. The two men have hated each other since they were children and a police lieutenant named Larkin warned them long ago that if one of them is ever killed, the other will be the prime suspect. Julie tells Georgie that he sent him a present of the biggest lollipop he could find, since Georgie is the biggest sucker in town. It seems Julie has taken over Georgie's punch board racket (punch boards were an early form of lottery) in the neighborhood candy stores and bars and Georgie is not happy about it. Schoenfeld's second teleplay for Alfred Hitchcock Presents was "Alibi Me," which was based on a story by Therd Jefre that had first been dramatized on the Suspense radio show on January 4, 1951.Īs the radio play opens, a small-time crook named George ("Georgie") Lennox visits his competitor, Julius ("Julie") Moore, looking for a showdown.
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