Pen Pal story

ahp6x06 · 1960-11-01

Elderly Miss Lowen learns from Detective Berger that her niece Margie has been exchanging romantic letters with convict Rod Collins for the past two years, and Collins has just escaped prison and may come for her. When Collins breaks into Miss Lowen's house in search of Margie, Miss Lowen knocks Collins out and calls the police, who capture him. Unknown to all, Miss Lowen is the one who has been writing to Collins all along, using her niece's name. Directed by: John Brahm. Story by: Henry Slesar & Jay Folb, Hilary Murray.

14 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 10 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
loneliness	choice	The elderly Miss Lowen was evidently very lonely to have started up a romantic correspondence with a young man who was serving a life-sentence in prison. Collins spoke of how lonely he'd been in prison.
facing a home invader	major	The escaped convict Collins broke into Miss Lowen's house demanding to see her niece. In the end, she bonked him over the head with a candelabrum and waited for the police to collect him.
impossible love	major	The elderly Miss Lowen loved the young convict Collins, but he loved her niece. All this transpired on account that Miss Lowen had been sending romantic letters to Collins in her niece's name.
long-distance relationship	major	Collins escaped from prison to meet the girl he'd been exchanging romantic letters with over the past two years.
aunt and niece	minor	Miss Lowen had a college aged niece, of which she spoke.
capital punishment	minor	Collins had been too young for the chair, we heard, and so had his sentence commuted to life in prison with no chance of parole.
coping with aging	minor	The elderly Miss Lowen examined her facial wrinkles in the mirror.
disapproving parent	minor	Miss Lowen, in the capacity of her niece's guardian, disapproved of the girl's pen pal.
law enforcement	minor	Detective Berger was on the trail of the escaped convict Collins.
murder	minor	Collins was a convicted man slayer.