Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Crack of Doom"(1956)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Crack of Doom"(1956)
Director: James Neilson
Writers: Robert C. Dennis (teleplay)
Don Marquis (story)
TV Series: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955)
Original Air Date: 25 November 1956 (Season 2, Episode 9)
Genre: Crime - Drama - Mystery - Thriller


* Cast :

Alfred Hitchcock ... Himself - Host
Robert Horton ... Mason Bridges
Robert Middleton ... Sam Klinker
Gail Kobe ... Jessie Bridges
Dayton Lummis ... Tom Ackley
Gavin Gordon ... Card Player
Kay Stewart ... Secretary Della
Francis De Sales ... Card Player (as Francis de Sales)
Pierre Watkin ... Porter
Keith Britton ... Whitman
Jess Kirkpatrick ... Card Player
Alan Reynolds ... Card Player

* Plot :


In the club car of a New York-Chicago streamliner, Mason Bridges adamantly refuses his friends' request to join him in the next car for a game of penny-ante. One of the friends presses him about this refusal, and Mason tells him a story of the time he had unwittingly become a thief.


Years before, he was an office manager for a real-estate firm. An unpleasant business associate named Sam Klinker gives him $10,000 to put in the company safe--and then invites him to a no-limit game of poker. Circumstances conspire to bring Mason Bridges to the brink of ruin. And a single card will make all the difference.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents/ Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents/ Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Roald Dahl
TV Series: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955)
Original Air Date: 13 April 1958 (Season 3, Episode 28)
Genre: Crime - Drama - Mystery - Thriller
Runtime: 30 min


* Cast:


Alfred Hitchcock ... Himself - Host
Barbara Bel Geddes ... Mary Maloney
Harold J. Stone ... Lieutenant Jack Noonan
Allan Lane ... Patrick Maloney
Ken Clark ... Mike
Robert C. Ross
William Keene ... Print Man
Thomas Wilde (as Thomas Wild)
Otto Waldis ... Sam


* Plot :

Mary Maloney is a devoted wife and an exceptional housekeeper. One day, her husband, the police chief, announces that he wants a divorce because he has met another woman. Mary is quite angry and kills him with a blow from a frozen leg of lamb. She calls the police and provides and alibi for herself with the story that she'd been out to the store when the murder took place.


The investigating officer, Lieutenant Noonan, is further frustrated when he cannot to find the murder weapon. Knowing of the long and hard hours spent looking into the case, Mary invites Noonan and the other investigators for a bite to eat. They dig into Mary's leg of lamb and Noonan still thinking about the missing murder weapon says "For all we know, it might be right under our very noses.

Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)

Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Thornton Wilder
Sally Benson
Release Date: 26 September 1945 (France)
Genre: Crime - Film-Noir - Mystery - Thriller


* Cast:


Teresa Wright ... Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton
Joseph Cotten ... Uncle Charlie Oakley
Macdonald Carey ... Jack Graham
Henry Travers ... Joseph Newton
Patricia Collinge ... Emma Newton
Hume Cronyn ... Herbie Hawkins
Wallace Ford ... Fred Saunders
Edna May Wonacott ... Ann Newton
Charles Bates ... Roger Newton
Irving Bacon ... Station Master
Clarence Muse ... Pullman Porter
Janet Shaw ... Waitress Louise Finch
Estelle Jewell ... Catherine


* Plot :


The Newton family lead a quiet life in the North California town of Santa Rosa. The Newton's eldest daughter, 'young Charlie', decides that things need brightening up and resolves to contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she is named) and invite him to stay.


On arrival at the telegraph office she discovers he is already on his way. However, Uncle Charlie is being pursued by a couple of detectives who suspect him of being "The Merry Widow Murderer", an evil strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several rich East coast widows.

Number Seventeen (1932)

Number Seventeen (1932)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
Genre: Crime - Mystery -| Thriller
Runtime: 63 min


* Cast:

Leon M. Lion ... Ben
Anne Grey ... Nora - the Girl
John Stuart ... Barton - the Detective
Donald Calthrop ... Brant - Nora's Escort
Barry Jones ... Henry Doyle
Ann Casson ... Rose Ackroyd
Henry Caine ... Mr. Ackroyd
Garry Marsh ... Sheldrake


* Plot :


Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves.


In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, then they are running away from police.


It will not be easy for the detective to recover the jewel..

Secret Agent (1936)

Secret Agent (1936)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Campbell Dixon
W. Somerset Maugham (based on the novel "Ashenden")
Release Date: 15 June 1936 (USA)
Genre: Comedy - Drama - Mystery - Romance - Thriller


* Cast :


John Gielgud ... Ashenden
Peter Lorre ... The General
Madeleine Carroll ... Elsa
Robert Young ... Marvin
Percy Marmont ... Caypor
Florence Kahn ... Mrs. Caypor
Charles Carson ... 'R'
Lilli Palmer ... Lilli


* Plot:


British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home during WWI to find that a government agency has faked a report of his death.


They get him to change his name to Richard Ashenden and travel to Switzerland to track down a German agent.

Sabotage (1936)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Joseph Conrad (novel)
Charles Bennett (screenplay)
Release Date: 11 January 1937 (USA) more
Genre: Mystery - Thriller


* Cast :

Sylvia Sidney ... Mrs. Sylvia Verloc (as Sylvia Sydney)
Oskar Homolka ... Verloc - Sylvia's Husband (as Oscar Homolka)
Desmond Tester ... Stevie - Sylvia's Young Brother
John Loder ... Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer
Joyce Barbour ... Renee
Matthew Boulton ... Superintendent Talbot
S.J. Warmington ... Hollingshead
William Dewhurst ... Professor A.F. Chatman


* Plot :


Mr. Verloc, a cinema owner, is part of a gang of saboteurs in London. He lives with his wife, Sylvya, and her young brother, Stevie.


They know nothing about Verloc's secret. Scotland Yard assigns an undercover detective, Ted, to work in a shop near the cinema and investigate the man. The head of the gang assigns Verloc to put a bomb in the metro.


The man sends Stevie there with the "bag".

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Sidney Gilliat (screenplay) &
Joan Harrison (screenplay) ...
Release Date: 20 July 1939 (France) more
Genre: Adventure - Crime



* Cast :


Charles Laughton ... Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Horace Hodges ... His Butler
Hay Petrie ... His Groom
Frederick Piper ... His Agent
Herbert Lomas ... His Tenant
Clare Greet ... His Tenant
William Devlin ... His Tenant
Jeanne De Casalis ... His Friend (as Jeanne de Casalis)
Mabel Terry-Lewis ... His Friend (as Mabel Terry Lewis)
A. Bromley Davenport ... His Friend (as Bromley Davenport)
George Curzon ... His Friend
Basil Radford ... His Friend
Leslie Banks ... Joss Merlyn
Marie Ney ... Patience - His Wife
Maureen O'Hara ... Mary - His Niece


* Plot :


Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn.


Mary soon realizes that her uncle's inn is the base of a gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast.


The girl starts fearing for her life.

Design for Living (1933)

Design for Living (1933)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writers: Noel Coward (play)
Ben Hecht (screenplay)
Release Date:
29 December 1933 (USA) more
Genre: Comedy - Romance


* Cast :

Fredric March ... Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers
Gary Cooper ... George Curtis
Miriam Hopkins ... Gilda Farrell
Edward Everett Horton ... Max Plunkett
Franklin Pangborn ... Mr. Douglas, Theatrical Producer
Isabel Jewell ... Plunkett's Stenographer
Jane Darwell ... Curtis' Housekeeper
Wyndham Standing ... Max's Butler


* Plot :

Two Americans sharing a flat in Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and painter George Curtis, fall for free-spirited Gilda Farrell.


When she can't make up her mind which one of them she prefers, she proposes a "gentleman's agreement": She will move in with them as a friend and critic of their work, but they will never have sex.


But when Tom goes to London to supervise a production of one of his plays, leaving Gilda alone with George, how long will their gentleman's agreement last?



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"Alfred Hitchcock Presents": The Cheney Vase (1955)

The Cheney Vase (1955)
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: Robert Blees (written by)
TV Series: "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1955)
Original Air Date: 25 December 1955 (Season 1, Episode 13)
Genre: Crime - Drama - Mystery - Thriller


* Cast :

Patricia Collinge ... Martha Cheney
Darren McGavin ... Lyle Endicott
Carolyn Jones ... Pamela Waring
George Macready ... Herbert Koether
Kathryn Card ... Bella
Ruta Lee ... Ruby Boyenton

* Plot :

Lyle Endicott is a smooth manipulator, but he's not smooth enough to save his job at a Manhattan art museum. And his talent doesn't seem to have gotten him anywhere in life. "Why not just once can something go right for me?" he wonders. Luck finally seems to shine on him when he overhears his boss, Mr. Koether, talking to one of the museum's patrons, Martha Cheney, an invalid who uses a wheelchair. She and Koether call each other by their first names, but their friendship isn't enough to persuade Miss Cheney to sell him the famous Cheney vase. Lyle realizes the heirloom is worth a lot of money -- money that can be his if he manages to insinuate himself into the old woman's life.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:Charles Bennett and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Release Date: 15 April 1935 (USA) more
Genre: Mystery - Thriller
Length: 01:15:09



The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period.


Hitchcock remade the film with James Stewart in 1956 for Paramount Pictures; it's the only film he ever remade. The two films are, however, very different in tone, in setting, and in many plot details.



* Synopsis:

The plot concerns Bob and Jill Lawrence, (Leslie Banks and Edna Best), a British couple on vacation in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and their daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). The couple befriend a foreigner, Louis Bernard (Pierre Fresnay), who is staying in their hotel. One evening, as Jill dances with Louis, she witnesses his assassination as a French spy. Before dying, the spy passes on to them some vital information to be delivered to the British consul.


In order to ensure their silence, the assassins, led by a charming and nefarious Abbott (Peter Lorre), kidnap their daughter. Unable to secure much meaningful help from the police, the couple return to England and, after following a series of leads, discover the group intends to assassinate a European ambassador during a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Jill attends the concert and distracts the gunman with a scream. The assassins are killed by the police, Betty's sharpshooting mother dispatching the assassin who formerly beat her in a sharpshooting contest. A single assassin commits suicide rather than be captured. Betty is returned to her parents.