Alfred Hitchcock Presents (20 Episodes) - 5-DVD Box Set ( The Perfect Crime / The Case of Mr. Pelham / Mr. Blanchard's Secret / One More Mile to Go / Arthur / I Saw the Whole Thing / Revenge / Wet Saturday / The Trap / Bang! You're Dead ) ( Lamb to the Slaughter / Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat / Breakdown / Poison / The Crystal Trench / Incident at a Corner / Back for Christmas / Banquo's Chair / Dip in the Pool / The Horse Player )

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (20 Episodes) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Perfect Crime / The Case of Mr. Pelham / Mr. Blanchard's Secret / One More Mile to Go / Arthur / I Saw the Whole Thing / Revenge / Wet Saturday / The Trap / Bang! You're Dead
Alternate Title: Lamb to the Slaughter / Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat / Breakdown / Poison / The Crystal Trench / Incident at a Corner / Back for Christmas / Banquo's Chair / Dip in the Pool / The Horse Player
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
540 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1955 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alfred Hitchcock

Written By:
Francis M. Cockrell
John Collier

Actors:
Alfred Hitchcock ..... Himself - Host
Claude Rains ..... Father Amion
Ed Gardner ..... Sheridan
Percy Helton ..... Morton
Mike Ragan ..... Mr. Cheever
William Newell ..... Second Bank Teller
David Carlile ..... First Bank Teller
Ada Murphy ..... Elderly Woman
Kenneth MacKenna ..... Bishop Cannon
John Williams ..... Herbert Carpenter
Isobel Elsom ..... Hermione Carpenter (as Isabel Elsom)
Arthur Gould-Porter ..... Major Sinclair (as A.E. Gould-Porter)
Lillian Kemble-Cooper ..... Mrs. Sinclair (as Lily Kemble-Cooper)
Gavin Muir ..... Mr. Wallingford
Katherine Warren ..... Mrs. Freda Wallingford
Gerald Hamer ..... Mr. Hewitt
Irene Tedrow ..... Mrs. Hewitt
Ross Ford ..... Butler
Theresa Harris ..... Elsie the Servant
Mollie Glessing ..... Maid
James Donald ..... Mark Cavendidge
Patricia Owens ..... Stella Ballister
Werner Klemperer ..... Mr. Ranks
Ben Astar ..... Swiss Innkeeper
Patrick Macnee ..... Professor Kersley
Harold Dyrenforth ..... Frederic Blauer (as Harald O. Dyrenforth)
Frank Holms
Eileen Anderson
Otto Reichow

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***12 Episodes - VOST & French audio and 8 Episodes - VOST***Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
List of Episodes:
The Perfect Crime (1957)
The Case of Mr. Pelham (1955)
Mr. Blanchard's Secret (1956)
One More Mile to Go (1957)
Arthur (1959)
I Saw the Whole Thing (1962)
Revenge (1955)
Wet Saturday (1956)
The Trap (1965)
Bang! You're Dead (1961)
Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960)
Breakdown (1955)
Poison (1958)
The Crystal Trench (1959)
Incident at a Corner (1960)
Back for Christmas (1956)
Banquo's Chair (1959)
Dip in the Pool (1958)
The Horse Player (1961)

The Perfect Crime (1957)
A lawyer, with blackmail in mind, meets with a famed prosecutor to prove he convicted an innocent man.
The Case of Mr. Pelham (1955)
A series of troubling incidents lead Mr. Pelham to believe that he has a double who is deliberately impersonating him.
Mr. Blanchard's Secret (1956)
A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.
One More Mile to Go (1957)
Sam Jacoby has his wife's corpse in the trunk of his car, and is menaced by a motorcycle cop, who nags him about a taillight.
Arthur (1959)
When his fiancée Helen leaves chicken farmer Arthur for another man, he accepts her decision by conveniently enjoying the life of a bachelor. A year passes and Helen pays him a return visit, asking for forgiveness. It seems her love interest didn't work out and she wants to rekindle an old flame, against Arthur's wish to remain a bachelor. Accostomed to strangling chickens for a living, Arthur angrily applies the same method to Helen, then hides her body. The police suspect him of murder, but can do nothing for lack of evidence.
I Saw the Whole Thing (1962)
A mystery writer named Michael Barnes is accused of causing a fatal motorcycle accident with his car. The eyewitnesses prove less than reliable, however, when he defends himself in court and shreds their testimony by demonstrating that in each case the witnesses saw only what they wanted to see rather than the actual truth. Finally, George Peabody is called in as a witness. He was the only one who really saw the whole thing. This episode marked Alfred Hitchcock's last directorial effort for television.
Revenge (1955)
When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.
Wet Saturday (1956)
Mr. Princey's daughter has just murdered the schoolmaster. A murderess in the family? That won't do. It's up to Mr. Princey to frame someone else for her crime.
The Trap (1965)
Toy manufacturer's assistant has an affair with the child-like toy-man's enchanting young wife. After enduring an humiliating interview the bright, college grad aide proves valuable to the middle-aged manufacturer through his hard work. But the young man is impatient for advancement.
Bang! You're Dead (1961)
A 5 year old boy finds his uncle's revolver, partial loads it with bullets, and plays it with in public, unaware of it's deadly power.
Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)
When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon.
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960)
Twice a month, Mrs. Bixby travels to Baltimore to visit an elderly aunt, her only living relative. Or so she tells her dentist husband. In fact, she visits the Colonel, her rich lover. Before returning home, he gives her a gift of a fur coat - along with a letter saying that they won't be seeing other any more. Mrs. Bixby decides to pawn the coat but her elaborate scheme to explain the coat to her husband doesn't quite go as planned.
Breakdown (1955)
William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road, that leaves him so paralyzed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he's really dead.
Poison (1958)
Harry Pope is lying in bed and discovers that there is a sleeping snake on his stomach.
The Crystal Trench (1959)
An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain.
Incident at a Corner (1960)
Vera Miles plays the daughter of a man accused of an unspeakable act. Hitchcock tells a powerful story of the devastating effects of gossip in a small town. Through his most elaborate and ambitious work for television, Hitchcock sensitively shows the cancerous effects, the pain and tension arising from false accusation.
Back for Christmas (1956)
Herbert Carpenter plans to murder his wife Hermione, bury her body in the basement, and then leave on a long business trip.
Banquo's Chair (1959)
A wealthy woman named Miss Ferguson is murdered and a Scotland Yard detective is determined to force the lead suspect John Bedford to confess. The detective stages an elaborate hoax, hiring actress May Thorpe to play the ghost of Ferguson. The hoax goes off as planned, as the ghost appears and Bedford confesses. Later, Thorpe arrives and apologizes for being late. She asks if she is too late to give her performance.
Dip in the Pool (1958)
William Botibol is a compulsive gambler. While on a cruise, he enters a betting pool to guess the number of miles the ship will travel in 24 hours. William hears that the ship will slow down to avoid an upcoming storm. The storm passes, however, and the ship continues to speed on its course. He thinks of a plan to slow the ship by throwing himself overboard. He figures that when word gets out of someone going overboard, the ship will slow down to rescue him. He picks out a witness and jumps overboard. The witness doesn't say a word, however, as she's mentally ill and tells no one of his plight.
The Horse Player (1961)
Father Amion discovers that the large amounts of money turning up on the collection plate come from a grateful horse player who has hit a winning streak.

The Perfect Crime (1957)
An arrogant detective, Charles Courtney, prides himself on never having committed a single mistake in his long and distinguished career. He keeps a shelf of labeled mementos from each of his cases. On the shelf there is an open space and a blank tag for what Courtney calls "The Perfect Crime". One day a defense lawyer stuns Courtney when he confronts him with evidence that the detective helped convict an innocent man who has since been executed. Courtney kills the lawyer, bakes him in a pottery kiln, and places the vase in the open space on his shelf as a memento to his perfect crime.
The Case of Mr. Pelham (1955)
Mr. Pelham consults a doctor about a series of troubling incidents. Recently a number of his acquaintances have claimed to have seen him in places where he could not have been. The doctor suggests that there must be another man with a strong resemblance to Pelham. But it soon becomes obvious that the other man is also deliberately impersonating him - even to the point of using Pelham's apartment as his own.
Mr. Blanchard's Secret (1956)
The kooky Babs Fenton's imagination is a great asset when writing murder mysteries. But it does not foster peace and harmony in the home, especially not when she has an unimaginative corporate lawyer for a husband. Her overstimulated mind begins working on her new next-door neighbors, the Blanchards, when she realizes she's never seen Mrs. Blanchard. And Mr. Blanchard seems less than eager for her to pay a call. Has Mr. Blanchard, a high school teacher and former university professor, murdered his wife?
One More Mile to Go (1957)
In the midst of a heated quarrel, a man lifts up the fireplace poker in his hand and brings it down on his wife, who drops to the floor. She's dead. The man puts her body in the trunk of his car and drives off, hoping to find somewhere to dispose of it. If he thought his wife was a nag, she'll seem like sweetness and light compared to a motorcycle cop, who stops him and insists he fix his broken taillight.
Arthur (1959)
Arthur is a successful New Zealand chicken farmer. One evening, his fiancée Helen Braithwaite tells him that she is to marry someone else. Arthur releases her from her promise but also warns her that the man she plans to marry is no good and she will live to regret her choice. A year goes by and Arthur continues to improve on his yield of chickens. He now mixes his own feed and his goal is to become entirely self-sufficient in terms of running the farm. One evening, Helen reappears to tell him that she had made a terrible mistake and was leaving her husband to move in with him. Arthur now realizes that he has grown quite accustomed to the solitude of his farm and has only one option open to him.
I Saw the Whole Thing (1962)
Michael Barnes is a mystery writer who is accused of causing a fatal car accident. Each eyewitness, however, proves to be unreliable when their testimony is shredded by Barnes who is acting as his own defense attorney. He is exonerated after he shows that each witness only saw what they wanted to see. Ultimately, however, it is revealed that he was not the driver. The driver was his pregnant wife. Barnes arranged to have himself accused because he knew that his wife would not be able to stand the strains of a trial.
Revenge (1955)
Carl and Elsa Spann have moved into a trailer park in California, after Elsa suffered a nervous breakdown. She is adjusting well to a more peaceful lifestyle, after her rigorous training as a ballerina. But then Carl comes home from work to find Elsa shocked and traumatized after a man assaulted her in the trailer. The police investigate, but find little to go on. Carl becomes increasingly angry about what has happened, and he is determined to kill the man responsible, if he can find him.
Wet Saturday (1956)
Mr. Princey's batty daughter, Millicent, has just killed the schoolmaster, with whom she was in love, when she found out he had gotten engaged to another woman. A murderess in the family? That won't do. Mr. Princey has a shallow dimwit for a son and a wife who, whatever her other qualities, is no good when it comes to covering up a murder. Mr. Princey takes it upon himself to keep Millicent out of prison or the madhouse. Good luck is on his side when Captain Smollet stops by for a visit. Captain Smollet, it seems, has just as much a motive for murder as Millicent.
The Trap (1965)
Anne Francis stars as Peg Beale, the wife of Ted Beale (Robert Strauss), a boorish executive of a toy company. When Ted hires new personal secretary John "Harvard" Cochran (Donnelly Rhodes) Peg and John begin plotting against Ted's life, with results that take the unexpectedly macabre turns that one would expect from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bang! You're Dead (1961)
Rick Sheffield visits his brother and sister-in-law after a lengthy absence living in Africa. His nephew Jackie unpacks his suitcase and finds a revolver. Jackie and his friends are always playing with their toy guns and Jackie goes around town, pointing the gun and pulling the trigger, oblivious to the fact that there is a live round in the chamber. When his parents and uncle realize he has the gun, they set off on a frantic search but not before he fires at someone.
Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)
Mary Maloney is a devoted wife and an exceptional housekeeper. One day, her husband, the police chief, announces that he wants a divorce because he has met another woman. Mary is quite angry and kills him with a blow from a frozen leg of lamb. She calls the police and provides an alibi for herself with the story that she'd been out to the store when the murder took place. The investigating officer, Lieutenant Noonan, is further frustrated when he cannot find the murder weapon. Knowing of the long and hard hours spent looking into the case, Mary invites Noonan and the other investigators for a bite to eat. They dig into Mary's leg of lamb and Noonan, still thinking about the missing murder weapon, says "For all we know, it might be right under our very noses."
Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents moved from its familiar Sunday-night slot on CBS to a new Tuesday-night berth for rival network NBC to launch its sixth season with this amusingly ironic tale from the pen of frequent series contributor Roald Dahl. Audrey Meadows adroitly suppresses her familiar "Alice Kramden" characterization in the role of Mrs. Bixby, the pampered -- and faithless -- wife of a prosperous doctor (Les Tremayne). When Mrs. Bixby's latest paramour, a colonel (Stephen Chase), decides to break off their relationship, he gives her a costly mink coat as a parting gift. Not wanting to have her husband find out how she really got the coat, Mrs. Bixby works out an elaborate subterfuge involving a "found" pawn ticket. But it turns out that Dr. Bixby is not entirely above a bit of subterfuge himself!
Breakdown (1955)
Mr. Callew, a demanding businessman, is resting by the beach when he receives a telephone call from a recently discharged employee. The man is in tears, but the unyielding Callew shows no sympathy, and hangs up on him. Later, when Callew starts to drive home, his car runs off the road at a construction site. When he comes to, Callew is paralyzed. Several persons come by, but he is unable to communicate with them, so they think he is dead. Fully aware of his predicament, he becomes increasingly terrified.
Poison (1958)
Harry Pope is an alcoholic plantation owner. One day he awakens with a deadly snake in his bed. It lies sleeping under the blanket right on his chest. Afraid to move, he calls for help and Timber Woods arrives and later gets a doctor. Woods attempts to knock the snake out by using chloroform poured under the blankets through a rubber tube. When they pull back the blankets they find no snake. The doctor leaves angrily. Woods laughs at Harry and jumps onto the bed. The snake comes out from behind a pillow and bites him right on the face.
The Crystal Trench (1959)
While staying at a hotel in the Swiss Alps, Mark Cavendidge is asked to break some bad news to the only other British guest in the hotel, Mrs. Stella Ballister: her husband of six months has perished on the mountain top, dying from exposure and exhaustion. Unfortunaltely, an attempt to recover his remains fails when his body falls into a deep crevasse. Over the following years Mark very much falls in love with Stella but she will not marry him. She is waiting for the days when her husband's body will re-appear, pushed down the mountain by the advancing glacier. Forty years later, she does finally recover his body, but also a surprise that affects her deeply.
Incident at a Corner (1960)
A school crossing guard reprimands the PTA president for careless driving. He is later dismissed from his job on the basis of an anonymous note accusing him of being too friendly with little schoolgirls. His daughter's boyfriend takes up his cause, assuming that the PTA president sent the note out of spite. It turns out that the note was sent by a woman living across the street from the school, who knew the guard from another city, and feared he would expose her past life. Story is told with the same incident repeated from several different viewpoints.
Back for Christmas (1956)
Herbert is digging in his basement when his wife Hermione calls him upstairs to eat. She thinks he is making a wine cellar, but he is really planning to kill her and bury her in the basement. At lunch, Hermione goes over all the arrangements she has made for a business trip to California that they are about to take together. Several friends then come over to visit, and after they leave, Herbert looks for the opportunity to put his plan into practice.
Banquo's Chair (1959)
John Bedford is suspected of being the murderer of his wealthy aunt, Miss Ferguson, but the police are unable to break his alibi. Now, exactly two years after the crime, a retired Scotland Yard investigator named William Brent, puts together a plan that he hopes will make the nephew confess. Brent invites the young man to a dinner in the home that once belonged to the late aunt, and secretly hires an actress to pretend to be the ghost of the dead woman. Everyone at the dinner is in on the scheme, and when the apparition appears, no one claims to see anything - but Bedford, that is.
Dip in the Pool (1958)
William Botibol is a compulsive gambler. While on a cruise he enters a betting pool to guess the number of miles the ship will travel in the course of twenty four hours. William gains some inside information when he learns that the ship is going to slow down to avoid an upcoming storm. Unfortunately, the storm passes, and the ship continues to speed on its course. He decides to force the ship to slow down by throwing himself overboard. He figures that when word gets out of someone going overboard the ship will slow down to get him. He picks out a witness and jumps overboard. The witness doesn't say a word. She's mentally ill and does not alert anyone to Williams' plight.
The Horse Player (1961)
Father Amian's church isn't in very good shape and needs an expensive new roof. At a mid-week service, a stranger leaves a $10 bill in the collection plate. The stranger becomes a regular attendee and continues to make generous donations. Turns out the stranger, Mr. Sheridan, has taken to praying for winners and since doing so has had nothing but success at the track, winning bet after bet. Sheridan convinces Father Amian to place a bet on a sure thing and Amian regrets his rash act as soon as it's done. Feelings guilty, he prays for the horse not to win, but with a surprising conclusion.

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