Final Vow story
An apprentice nun tracks down the robber who stole a priceless figurine that she was entrusted to bring to her convent. Directed by: Norman Lloyd. Story by: Henry Slesar.
12 total · 5 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| beating one's self up | major | Sister Pamela was so distraught after she lost the priceless statue that she forsook her vows and left the convent. |
| coping with a crisis of faith | major | After making a fool of herself one too many times, Sister Pamela decided she was not cut out to be a nun and left the nunnery. She said something about people running towards God while she herself run away. |
| greed for riches | major | The statue thief became particularly avaricious when he realized that the item in question might be worth a fortune. |
| religious occupation | major | The story followed some adventures of the various inhabitants of a nunnery. |
| theft | major | A young nun lost a priceless statue to a thief at the railway station. |
| art discussion | minor | The rich art dealer explained something about the priceless old statuette made by Donatello, to the two nuns. |
| boyfriend and girlfriend | minor | Jimmy and Bess had a violent blow up after the dance party. |
| coping with unwelcome romantic attention | minor | Pamela did not much care for the attentions of Jimmy, but she decided to play along because she wanted to recover the statue he had purloined. |
| domestic violence | minor | Jimmy roughed up his girlfriend, Bess. |
| human pleasure | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock practiced his new hobby of tattooing of a side of beef, and later was about to do the same on a live cow. |