Like Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men, he tries to establish reasonable doubt, and if the story had kept going in that angle, that would’ve been better than what they ended up doing for the sake of a twist ending. It struck me as a reason that couldn’t have been so easily concealed, like no one knew this fact only so it could be revealed at the end and be all dramatic. This one had me until the very end, when Forsythe reveals why he knows he’s innocent. Five people are ready to testify he did it, but he insists he’s innocent-and will act as his own lawyer in court to prove his innocence! Hitch himself directed this one: John Forsythe, long before he became Blake Carrington on Dynasty, is accused of involuntary manslaughter in a hit-and-run crash. The episode was written by Psycho author Robert Bloch. If it didn’t have Hitch’s imprimatur, I wonder if anyone else could’ve gotten away with it. Though we don’t actually see what happens in detail, it was still a pretty shocking (for the early 60s) ending. I instinctively expected a Twilight Zone-kind of ending when I saw in which direction this was going and didn’t really think it would go there, but this is not TZ, so it did indeed go there. She’s secretly having an affair, though, and she cons DeWilde into knocking off her husband by playing on his innocence, but her plan works a little too well. Shane child star Brandon deWilde, grown up, plays a drifter a few cards short of a full deck who wanders into a carnival and gets taken in by the show’s stage magician and his wife, his on-stage assistant. I didn’t realize when I began planning for this post AHP (a half hour) was a little different from AHH (an hour), though it’s all basically the same show. So nothing fancy here just my take on a few episodes picked at random. Here’s a collection of some of his more memorable intros and outros and here are some fun facts about the show. The creepy theme song and the stylized cartoon silhouette of him also helped sell him as an iconic persona that one looked forward to seeing as much as the stories themselves. His introductions to each episode painted him as macabre yet self-depreciating, with a dry wit and a strong sense of the absurd, much like The Addams Family years later. For TV, it was like he became an eccentric uncle with whom you were never sure if he was pulling your leg or not. His droll sense of deadpan humor was often on display in his movies, sometimes as part of the cameo appearances he’d make in them. Perhaps more than any other director of the Golden Age, Alfred Hitchcock was a personality, someone known by movie audiences as well as any movie star, and never was that more apparent than when he made the leap to television in 1955 with Alfred Hitchcock Presents, AKA The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.Ī weekly anthology of suspense and horror stories, it’s notable not just for the quality of the stories but for how it shaped the Hitchcock persona. For a complete list of participating bloggers, visit the link at the host site. The Alfred Hitchcock Blogathon is an event dedicated to the life and career of the legendary filmmaker, hosted by Maddy Loves Her Classic Films.
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