The Diplomatic Corpse story
Married couple Evan and Janet are touring Mexico with their aunt Mrs. Tait, who dies of a heart attack. While Evan and Janet are searching for a doctor, their car is stolen with Mrs. Tait's corpse in it. They hire detective Thomas Salgado to find the car, and later the body. When Evan and Janet finally return home, they find Salgado has given them the wrong body. Directed by: Paul Henreid. Story by: Alec Coppel, Robert C. Dennis.
14 total · 7 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with the death of a family member | major | Evan and Janet Wallace found themselves in quite predicament when Janet's aunt dropped dead while the trio were on a road trip to Tijuana. |
| criminal fraud | major | The shady private eye Tomas Salgado suckered Evan and Janet out of sums of cash at every turn. |
| foreign customs | major | Evan and Janet Wallace found themselves in quite a pickle after losing Janet's elderly aunt's corpse while traveling in Tijuana. |
| greedy heir | major | Auntie Tait coped posthumously with her niece and niece's husband who were more concerned with the £30,000 they stood to inherit than with their beloved aunt's corpse. |
| husband and wife | major | Evan and Janet Wallace found themselves in quite predicament when Janet's aunt dropped dead while the trio were on a road trip to Tijuana. |
| private investigator occupation | major | Evan and Janet retained the services of the shady private eye Tomas Salgado in an effort to located the recently dropped dead body of Janet's aunt. |
| what if I got into trouble in a foreign country | major | Evan and Janet found themselves in a precarious situation when they lost their late aunt's corpse in Tijuana. |
| aunt and niece | minor | Janet's old aunt dropped dead in the back seat of her and Evan's car while the trio were driving to Tijuana. |
| coping with a nag | minor | Evan was visibly annoyed by Mrs. Tait because she wouldn't stop grumbling from the backseat of their car during a family excursion. |
| doppelgänger | minor | The closing narration was performed by a sombrero wearing man, named Omega, who was the spitting image of Alfred Hitchcock. |