![]() ![]() SEASON 7 EPISODE 19 remastered Universal dvd box set. Following a train accident, a man plans to cheat an insurance company out of a large amount. in season Title Directed by Written by Stars Original air date 40: 1 'Wet Saturday' Alfred Hitchcock: Story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Marian Cockrell: Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. The camera fades in on a simple line-drawing caricature of Hitchcocks rotund profile (which Hitchcock drew), to the theme music of Charles Gounods 'Funeral March of a Marionette' (suggested by Hitchcocks long-time musical collaborator Bernard Herrmann). not to miss the ending, and perhaps one of the best ever karma tales. Alfred Hitchcock Presents is well known for its title sequence. A good lawyer would insure he kept that large bank book with all the 000000s. Best of it all is the casting of veteran Eduardo Ciannelli, usually at home playing nasty villains, this time around playing a priest! Hitch had to have a say in this! There IS one realistic, true to life footnote. Master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock presents several short stories. Marian would later appear in the EDGE OF NIGHT and many episodes of GUNSMOKE. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (19551962) - episodes with scripts. They make a terrific team in this story, playing so well off each other. Pedro Sicueros fakes paralysis after a train wreck in order to collect a huge insurance settlement. Pedro comes up with the idea of a blessed "miracle" that will set him free, so he thinks! Terrific support from actress Marian Colon as Pedro's concerned wife. Greed rears its ugly head -insurance money plus the prying investigators -and its time to change things rapidly. ![]() David Opatoshu, never to turn in anything less than an excellent performance, plays Pedro who is involved in a train accident and supposedly has both legs paralyzed. This story, though, leans more to the very dramatic than dark and dreary. Welles had an impressive background in the macabre, writing for SUSPENSE and later NIGHT GALLERY. Stay tuned! Excellent writing on the part of Halsted Welles, who did several episodes for the master of chills. I agree with the last reviewer, Hitchcock was a devout Catholic all his life, and both his tv show and movies would have references to the church or clergy. ![]()
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