“Good e-vening…”
I watch DVD’s while I do cardio exercise, and right now I’m working my way through a 20-title Alfred Hitchcock collection. It’s all really early stuff covering from the late 1920’s to the early 1960’s. After just one disk, I’m looking forward to the other three.
“I abhor violence. On this show, shooting, stabbing, and garroting will only be used when absolutely necessary to the story. Or, when we happen to feel like it on a whim.”
Some of the films are silent movies. Can you imagine that Hitchcock made some romances with mega-happy endings? Two of those were silent films, and I found myself using the fast-forward button. Others are mystery stories. And then there’s this quote:
“Suffice to say the saw worked very well, but the magic wand, not at all. Poor Hugo was very upset, and the lady was beside herself. The police completely misunderstood his story, and charged Hugo with murder.”
The dramatic tension in that story is amazing. The whole collection was five bucks at Meg-Lo- Wal-Mart. Some of the titles coming up, I’ve heard of but have never seen. It makes the heartbeats fly by…
Wait till you get to “The Rope”. At least I think that is what it is titled. I rather enjoyed that one.
I may try to find tat at my Wal Marts because I really loved that program. Thanks George.
More accurately, “I abhor violence. That is why on this program we use stabbings, shootings and garrotings only when they are absolutely essential to the plot. Or when the whim strikes us.” From the intro to “The Cheney Vase” ep of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959)
Noted only because I made a note of this quote when the article came along, and finally tracked it down.
Urg. 1955.