Set the stage for a dark and stormy night, where Nurse Stella Crosson ( Dana Wynter) and Nurse Betty Ames (T.C. The police are baffled by this madman who is preying exclusively on live-in nurses. Over the course of two weeks, a psychotic maniac is on the prowl, being reported all over the television and radio. Nurse Killer-“You’re Such a Pretty Nurse, Freda” cackle, cackle. Newman, from a story by Ethel Lina White. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, directed by Joseph M. Jones as Nurse Betty Ames, and Louise Latham as Maude Isles Overcome with passion as the two begin to talk, Julia tries to reach out and touch the object of her undying passion -Max Collodi, but it comes along with grave consequences.Īn Unlocked Window Season 3, Episode 17 aired on (15 Feb. He sits at a table with his small dummy George. The darkness envelopes him, and he asks her to keep her distance. Once she arrives at his hotel room, she finds him sitting in a dimly lit atmosphere of mystery, surrounded by shadows and subterfuge. Eventually quitting her meager job, in order to follow his show around Europe, Max agrees to meet Julia, setting forth certain conditions upon their first encounter. The proper, lonely, and romantically repressed Julia had fallen in love with a famous ventriloquist named Max Collodi ( Tom Conway)Becoming obsessed with the performer she saw all his performances, sending him letters requesting to meet him. Jim Whitely ( William Shatner) and Dorothy ( Rosemary Harris) begin cleaning out the apartment of his dead Cousin Julia ( Jessica Tandy), Jim comes across a small wooden box that contains a mysterious glass eye and starts to relate the strange and macabre story to his wife of why it remains in Julia’s possession. Jessica Tandy, Tom Conway, William Shatner, Rosemary Harris, and Billy Bartyįrom Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Directed by Robert Stevensand written by Sterling Silliphant. THE GLASS EYE Season 3 Episode 1 aired on (6 Oct. They never stale, they always tickle and cause that most delicious little shudder, from some of the finest mystery and suspense writers and re-experiencing the delight of seeing how the show had given some of the best acting talents their very first start…right here. Now, I offer a brief snapshot of my oeuvre featuring some of my very favorite episodes of both Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Hitchcock appears at first in a shadowy silhouette from the corner of the screen, then stepping prominently into the outline, filling his place as the master of the evening’s suspenseful ceremonies. Bernard Herrmann had scored so many of Hitch’s feature films, as well as John Williams and Dimitri Tiompkin. The camera frame evolves into a most simplistic line drawing, a chubby caricature of Alfred Hitchcock’s endearing profile which then converges with Charles Gounod’s “Funeral March for a Marionette” as suggested by Bernard Herrmann. It’s the pictures that got small! – “Good Evening” Leading Ladies of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Part 4 It’s the pictures that got small! – “Good Evening” Leading Ladies of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Part 3 It’s the pictures that got small! – “Good Evening” Leading Ladies of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Part 2 It’s the pictures that got small! – “Good Evening” Leading Ladies of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Part 1 “There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of hell”- Edgar Allan Poe