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.