![]() ![]() Patrick tells her unemotionally that he has met someone else, they love each other and want to marry. It’s then that Patrick drops his bombshell. She’s doing all the talking as he goes to pour himself a drink. Philip seems distracted, and Mary feels he’s tired. She seems very much in love calling him darling at every opportunity and seems happy in her lot. Patrick returns home to his devoted wife and soon-to-be mother of his child. The Maloneys are expected at a friend’s house for drinks later that evening. The story begins as young Mary Maloney (Bel Geddes) waits for her police chief husband, Patrick (Allan Lane) to come home from work. The episode title then follows with an ominous drum roll. This is told as Hitchcock sets the scene, he performs his role as a customer in a supermarket and he reports it is in this “milieu” that the story is set. Lamb for the Slaughter has Hitchcock’s traditional animated and comic monologue to open the episode. This actress spoke fondly of this “wonderful” director after he directed her in the movie Vertigo (1958). She also starred in Sybilla (1960), The Morning of the Bride (1959) and The Foghorn (1958). This is one of Hitchcock and Bel Geddes’ four collaborations for this series. This was for this episode and the leading role of pregnant Mary Malone. There he offered her a leading role in his TV series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Norman Bel Geddes was also the co-writer of this 1936 play of the same name, and the set designer for this movie.Ģ0 years later, Hitchcock met Barbara Bel Geddes, Norman’s daughter for lunch. Her father accompanied the leading lady Sylvia Sidney to this event. ![]() Back then, her father industrial designer, Norman Bel Geddes, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma attended the Dead End (1937) premiere. This leading lady’s links to the Master of Suspense appear to go back to 1937. This actress is now known – to my generation – as Miss Ellie (Ewing Farlow) in TV’s Dallas (1978-91). The episode also stars one of Hitchcock’s most popular leading ladies in this series, Barbara Bel Geddes. The icing on the cake, for this particular Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, was that it was directed by the Master of Suspense himself. Dahl was an author best remembered for writing the Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967) and penning those children’s books including Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Through the series episodes’ storylines, I read about a crime of passion tale named Lamb to the Slaughter (1958) that had all the right ingredients.īoth the story and screenplay were written by Roald Dahl. PassingsĪlfred Hitchcock died in 1980 of renal failure.Opening to The Best of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Volume One 1986 VHS, MrServoRetro and photos © NBCUniversal Television DistributionĪfter I watched the Dead Weight(1959) episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-62), this story immediately whetted my appetite for more of this TV suspense series. And there he was, every week, now in color. NBC revived the “Alfred Hitchcock Hour” in 1985 with all new episodes. Unbelieveably, it went back to NBC as a hour show in 1964, but that was the last season.Īlfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar for directing though he did receive the Irving Thalberg Award in 1967. Renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour the show was now an hour format. The show moved from CBS to NBC in 1960 where it remained for two years until CBS brought it back. But he had network moral codes to get past, so he’d come on after the story had ended with that clipped British accent of his and add a postscript which allowed good to triumph. (The monologues were written by James Allardice.)Įvil did very well in Hitchcock stories. Then he’d give you a teaser about tonight’s episode, take a little shot at the sponsor, and the chills would begin. Who can forget the camera showing him in silhouette? The story goes that this profile sketch is from a Christmas card designed by Hitchcock when he was in England. ![]() Although he only directed about 20 of the more than 100 original shows, his stamp was on every story. The critically acclaimed director had three decades of film experience to bring to his television venture. ![]() “When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.”‘ What I said was, actors should be treated like cattle.” “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” “Television has brought murder back into the home – where it belongs” The Funeral March of a Marionette by Gounod Alfred Hitchcock Quotes 30 minutes Black and White – 268 episodesġ hour on NBC – 93 episodes Alfred Hitchcock CastĪlfred Hitchcock – host Alfred Hitchcock Theme Song ![]()
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