Alfred Hitchcock (156 page)

Every book project has its special angels who prod it along with encouragement and insights. Bill Fagelson was a researcher whom I learned to trust not only in the vast Harry Ransom Humanities Research Library, but in the equally forbidding Margaret Herrick Library in Los Angeles. Charles Barr, whose own
English Hitchcock
(Cameron & Hollis, 1999) is indispensable, read drafts and traded views. Anthony Slide and David Thomson did likewise in the United States, with similar patience. Bill Krohn did not see me as a rival, though he is one of the leading Hitchcock scholars with his own important book and continues writing on the Hitchcock films. J. Lary Kuhns sweated blood over the filmography, and overflowed with information and opinions on every film. Mary Troath in London is an author’s dream of an intelligent, tireless researcher, and, thank you, Mary, she even kept a tab when funds ran low. John Baxter in Paris again and again came to my rescue. I feel blessed by the support of my long time agent, Gloria Loomis. Calvert Morgan Jr. took this book from St. Martin’s Press to Regan Books at HarperCollins, for which I am grateful; he also took the subject to heart, and the manuscript to hand, shaping it, with his always discerning editing, into a better life story.

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(forthcoming)

Only the episodes directed by Hitchcock are listed.

1955-56 SEASON

Revenge

As director and producer.
Broadcast: October 2, 1955. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Samuel Blas. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Ralph Meeker, Vera Miles, Frances Bavier.

(With Joan Harrison for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley Productions, 25 mins.)

Breakdown

As director and producer.
Broadcast: November 13, 1955. Sc: Francis Cockrell and Louis Pollock, from a story by Louis Pollock. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Raymond Bailey, Forrest Stanley, Harry Shannon, Lane Chandler, James Edwards, Murray Alper, Aaron Spelling.

(With Joan Harrison for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

The Case of Mr. Pelham

As director and producer.
Broadcast: December 4, 1955. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Anthony Armstrong. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast:
Tom Ewell, Raymond Bailey, Justice Watson. (With Joan Harrison for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

Back for Chrismas

As director and producer.
Broadcast: March 4, 1956. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by John Collier. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.
Cast: John Williams, Isobel Elsom, A. E. Gould-Porter, Lily Kemble-Cooper. (With Joan Harrison for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

1956–57 Season

Wet Saturday

As director and producer.
Broadcast: September 30, 1956. Sc: Marian Cockrell, from a story by John Collier. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, John Williams, Tita Purdom, Kathryn Givney, Jerry Barclay.

(With Joan Harrison for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

Mr. Blanchard’s Secret

As director and producer.
Broadcast: December 23, 1956. Sc: Sarett Rudley, from a story by Emily Neff. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Mary Scott, Robert Horton, Meg Mundy, Dayton Lummis. (With Joan Harrison for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

One More Mile to Go

As director and producer.
Broadcast: April 7, 1957. Sc: James P. Cavanagh, from a story by George F. J. Smith. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: David Wayne, Louise Larabee, Steve Brodie, Norman Leavitt.

(With Joan Harrison for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

1957-58 SEASON

Four O’Clock

As director and producer.
Broadcast: September 30, 1957. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Cornell Woolrich. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: E. G. Marshall, Nancy Kelly, Richard Long.

(With Joan Harrison for
Suspicion
, Shamley, 50 mins.)

The Perfect Crime

As director and producer.
Broadcast: October 20, 1957. Sc: Stirling Silliphant, from a story by Ben Ray Redman. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Vincent Price, James Gregory.

(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

Lamb to the Slaughter

As director and producer.
Broadcast: April 13, 1958. Sc: Roald Dahl, from his story. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Allan Lane, Harold J. Stone.

(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

A Dip in the Pool

As director and producer.
Broadcast: June 1, 1958. Sc: Robert C. Dennis and Francis Cockrell, from a story by Roald Dahl. Ph: John F. Warren.

Cast:
Keenan Wynn, Louise Platt, Philip Bourneuf, Fay Wray, Doreen Lang.

(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

1958-59 SEASON

Poison

As director and producer.
Broadcast: October 5, 1958. Sc: Casey Robinson, based on a story by Roald Dahl. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Wendell Corey, James Donald, Arnold Moss.

(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

Banquo’s Chair

As director and producer.
Broadcast: May 3, 1959. Sc: Francis Cockrell, from a story by Rupert Croft-Cooke. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: John Williams, Reginald Gardiner, Kenneth Haigh.

(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

1959-60 SEASON

Arthur

As director and producer.
Broadcast: September 27, 1959. Sc: James P. Cavanagh, from a story by Arthur Williams. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Laurence Harvey, Hazel Court, Robert Douglas, Patrick Macnee.

(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

The Crystal Trench

As director and producer.
Broadcast: October 4, 1959. Sc: Stirling Silliphant, from a story by A. E. W. Mason. Ph: John F. Warren.

Cast: James Donald, Patricia Owens, Werner Klemperer, Patrick Macnee.

(Joan Harrison with Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

Incident at a Corner

As director and producer.
Broadcast: April 5, 1960. Sc: Charlotte Armstrong, from her novel. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Vera Miles, George Peppard, Paul Hartman, Bob Sweeney, Leora Dana, Philip Ober.

(Joan Harrison, Shamley, for
Ford-Startime
, 50 mins.)
^*

1960-61 SEASON

Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat

As director and producer.
Broadcast: September 27, 1960. Sc: Halsted Wells, from a story by Roald Dahl. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Audrey Meadows, Les Tremayne, Sally Hughes, Stephen Chase.

(Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

The Horseplayer

As director and producer.
Broadcast: March 14, 1961. Sc: Henry Slesar, from his story. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Claude Rains, Ed Gardner, Kenneth MacKenna.

(Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

1961-62 SEASON

Bang! You’re Dead

As director and producer.
Broadcast: October 17, 1961. Sc: Harold Swanton, from a story by Margery Vosper. Ph: John L. Russell, Jr.

Cast: Steve Dunne, Biff Elliott, Lucy Prentiss, Billy Mumy, Juanita Moore.

(Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd for
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Shamley, 25 mins.)

1962-63 SEASON

I Saw the Whole Thing

As director and producer.
Broadcast: October 11, 1962. Sc: Henry Slesar, from a story by Henry Cecil. Ph: Benjamin H. Kline.

Cast: John Forsythe, Kent Smith, Evans Evans, Billy Wells, Claire Griswold, Philip Ober, William Newell.

(Joan Harrison for
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
, Shamley, 50 mins.)

*
“Incident at a Corner” is the only Hitchcock-directed television show filmed in color.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint from the following:

Cedric Belfrage,
A Gent in Hollywood
, courtesy of Mary Belfrage, from the Cedric Belfrage papers, Tamiment Library, New York University; Charles Bennett,
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Memoirs of Screenwriter-Laureate Charles Bennett
ed. John Charles Bennett, courtesy of John Charles Bennett; Colin Belfrage,
All Is Grist
(unpublished version), courtesy of Bernard Lewis.

David Freeman,
The Last Days of Hitchcock
, copyright © 1984, quoted with permission of the author; Evan Hunter,
Me and Hitch
, copyright © 1997, excerpted by arrangement with the author; Ernest Lehman, professional papers and
North by Northwest.

Sidney Gilliat, courtesy of Caroline Brown (née Gilliat) and Edward Russell, BECTU Collection, London; Samson Raphaelson, courtesy of Joel Raphaelson, from the Samson Raphaelson Collection, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; Robert Boyle and Peggy Robertson, courtesy of Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Robert Benchley, used by permission of his estate, Nathaniel Robert Benchley, Executor, from the Robert Benchley papers, Special Collections, Boston University; James Bridie, courtesy of James Mavor; Whitfield Cook (5-Year Journal, 1945-1949), Special Collections, Boston University; Marlene Dietrich, courtesy of the Berlin Kinemathek; Ben Hecht papers, courtesy of The Newberry Library, Chicago; Brian Moore, with the permission of the estate of Brian Moore, and courtesy of the Brian Moore fonds, Special Collections, University of Calgary Library, and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin; V. S. Pritchett letters, courtesy of Oliver Pritchett; Myron Selznick papers, courtesy of Daniel Selznick, and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin; Edward R. Stettinius papers, courtesy of Wallace Stettinius and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; Thornton Wilder, courtesy of A. Tappan Wilder, and the Thornton Wilder Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Individuals
: John Baxter; Claire Brandt (Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee); Ned Comstock (Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California);
Sidney Gottlieb; Michael Rhodes (family photos); David Oliver (Henley’s); Esmé Surman (American scrapbook); Betty and Louisa Ware (Shoreham photos).
Organizations:
Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee; Special Collections, Boston University; Getty Images; Time-Life; Photofest; Vestry House Museum;
Hitchcock Annual;
and the author’s personal collection. Endpapers: Getty Images.

The author welcomes corrections. Special thanks to eagle-eyed readers W. C. Clogston, David Freeman, Dean Goodman, J. Lary Kuhns, John Kennedy Melling, Ken Mogg, Hubert Niogret, and Mary Troath, who spotted typos and mistakes in the hardcover biography. We have endeavored to correct known errors for this paperback edition.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2003 by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK.
Copyright © 2003 by Patrick McGilligan.

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