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In spite of some mistakes and unexplained turns already mentioned by other people, what makes this episode of "The Streets Of San Francisco" interesting, is the fact that there is some kind of "salute" to ALfred Hitchcock's classic. Not only the city of Frisco itself, with some of the same spots(they seemed to me), but the plot also contains elements... it is about a man who recreates the same lover, over and over again. Is like the "dark" side of James Stewart (Scottie Ferguson felt guilty, but was no serial killer). There are even some remarks about the hair of the girls, as Stewart did with Kim Novak... By the way, the name of one of Powers' characters is... Kim.

Indeed. An extraordinary exercise on style. It is one of the best short features I´ve seen. Of course, a salute to the old noir films, filled with femme fatale and losers (like that Ulmer´s masterpiece "Detour") but mixed up with that sign of the times called "twists of the plot". Anyway, it´s a pleasure to watch this funny game of seduction, murder, jealousy and... ¡oh, sure!... that beautiful and sooooo evident screen shots like they used to make on the forties and fifties. Should be played in cinema schools.