Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season Six (5 disc box set) [DVD]

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Mitch and Judy are out-of-work beatniks in need of money. At a party held by one of Mitch's friends Bruce, Judy meets an older man named Kenneth. Kenneth is not a beatnik, but he likes to attend their parties. He asks Judy on a date. Mitch encourages Judy to date Kenneth because he seems to have money. Kenneth gives Judy a diamond bracelet which Mitch takes and tries to sell to a jeweler. The jeweler has Mitch arrested. It seems that the bracelet Kenneth gave to Judy was in fact stolen. With Mitch in prison, Kenneth, who is actually a beatnik-hater, stabs Judy to death in her apartment. Supporting Cast: Hilda Plowright as Mae Thorpe, Max Adrian as Robert Stone, Tom Dillon (credited as Thomas P. Dillon) as Sergeant Balton, George Pelling as Lane Interesting Note: Cloris Leachman and Biff McGuire were born in the same year (1926) and died in the same year (2021), both living to the age of 94, respectively. Chill Wills as Mr. Kilmer, Cloris Leachman as Mary Templeton, Biff McGuire as Larry Templeton, Peter Lazer as Johnny Templeton, Scatman Crothers as Timothy

Supporting Cast: Tyler McVey as Cargan, William Challee as Barney Welch, Anne Anderson as Elsie Wilcox Supporting Cast: Percy Helton as Charlie the Building Super, Norman Lloyd as Lieutenant Orsatti, Norman Bartold as Police Sergeant, Minerva Urecal as Busybody Sgt. Andre Doniere (Bergerac) is a veteran traveling home with his friend Corp. Marcel Marchand, who saved his life. Doniere makes a phone call to his aristocratic family, asking if they will accommodate his friend, who lost his leg. Doniere's mother, stepfather and fiancée are uninterested in welcoming a cripple, so Doniere decides to never return home, because he is the one who lost his leg. Hotel waitress Thelma (Deering) learns that she is in the will of her wealthy regular customer, Sara Mannerheim (Lovsky), who has stopped taking her medicine in expectation of death. Thelma's boyfriend Arthur (Jason) suggests that they speed things up by slow-poisoning Sara with anatine, a leaf extract. After half a year of no change, Thelma strangles Sara to death one night in frustration. At the inquest, it is revealed that Sara's doctor prescribed anatine for her heart condition, and Thelma had been inadvertently keeping her alive. Supporting Cast: Karin Booth as Sheila Raymond, Bob Carson (credited as Robert Carson) as Harry Judson, Mike Ross as Frank Carstairs, Jennifer Lea as Nancy Judson, Fred Kruger as Warden, Robin Morse as Clark

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Horace Meade's (Scourby) new wife Sybilla (Bel Geddes) is perfectly obedient and agrees to all his unconventional demands. Despite this, Horace grows uncomfortable with her and tries to poison her, but is mysteriously thwarted. Horace concludes that Sybilla knew about the poison and has made contingencies with her lawyer in case she dies, and his only choice is to keep her alive and healthy. After 10 years of marriage, Sybilla dies of natural causes. Horace learns that there was no contingency plan, and he realizes that he truly loved her in the end. Supporting cast: Enid Markey as Cecilia Smithson, Alan Hewitt as Mr. Cole, Walter Kingsford as Colonel Blair, Ralph Clanton as Randolph Burnside, Roxanne Arlen as Donna Dew, Rudolph Anders as Cafe Host, Joan Dixon as Jealous Girl, Bess Flowers as Club Patron (uncredited), Sam Harris as Club Patron (uncredited), Herschel Graham as Club Patron (uncredited), Don Ames as Club Patron (uncredited) Supporting Cast: Claire Carleton as Millie, Baynes Barron as Bartender, Jay Jostyn as Morgan the Reporter, Arthur Batanides (credited as Art Batanides) as Police Sergeant, Richard Benedict as Mike, James Kirkwood, Jr. (credited as Jim Kirkwood, Jr.) as Dave, Charles Watts as Police Captain Supporting Cast: Peter Walker as Philip Weaver, Frank Richards as Party Guest, Edit Angold as Helen, Liz Carr as Lotte

Supporting Cast: Raymond Bailey as Psychiatrist in introduction (uncredited), Walter Kingsford as Dr. Manley, Arthur Gould-Porter (credited as A.E. Gould-Porter) as Rogers, Isobel Elsom as Minnie Findlater, Mollie Glessing as Bridget American journalist Mary Prescott (Trevor) is traveling on a train out of the Iron Curtain when she is befriended by local celebrity Jan Gubak (Bergerac). Mary agrees to carry a luxury watch for Gubak, but during the customs inspection Gubak turns her in to officers for smuggling luxury items. Mary is arrested, but released soon after when the watch is discovered to be fake. Mary learns that Gubak is part of the underground resistance, and the charade was to create a distraction that enabled Gubak to smuggle sensitive microfilm out of the country. Gubak gives Mary the microfilm and urges her to write the truth about his country.Supporting Cast: Raymond Bailey as Mr. Watkins, Charles Davis as Mr. Johnson, Penny Edwards as Miss Smith, Phil Gordon as Bartender, Irene Windust as Mrs. Compton, Joseph Hamilton as Train Conductor With a serial-murderer maid on the loose in the city, Ralph (Sloane) becomes suspicious of his and his wife Ethel (Ward)'s housemaid, Mrs. Sutton (Bondi). When Ralph gets violent cramps at work, he has his home cocoa analyzed, and it turns out to contain arsenic. Ralph initially blames Mrs. Sutton, until he learns that the serial murderer has been caught. However, Mrs. Sutton confesses to him her unhappiness at having had to lie for Ethel, who is having an affair. Ethel, unaware of what Ralph has learned, offers him a cup of cocoa that she made for him. Karen (Thaxter), a recovering alcoholic, wakes up hung over and with no memory of the night before. She slowly recalls attending a party with her fiancé, Jeff (Stevens). Karen started drinking again when she concludes that Jeff's business associate Renee (Allbritton) was trying to seduce him. Her last memory is of breaking a glass in her hand, and of Jeff trying to help her. Karen then learns that she is in jail for killing Jeff with that broken glass.

Married Elise Taylor (der Vlis) is having an affair with married Bish Darby (Best). While Bish's wife is away, Elise's husband walks in on the pair and shoots Bish dead. When the police call Bish's wife, she confesses to the murder, thinking that Bish drank her poisoned saccharin. Supporting Cast: Sam Buffington as Smalley, Joe De Santis as Police Lieutenant, David Carlile as Manny, Buzz Martin as Whitey, William D. Kruse as Card Player Supporting Cast: Rusty Lane as Train Conductor, Edith Evanson as Lady with Suitcase, Betty Harford as Waitress, Gary Hunley as Billy, Kay Stewart as Billy's Mother, Paul Frees as Train Station Announcer (uncredited)Supporting Cast: Ellen Corby as Miss Samantha, Joe Downing (credited as Joseph Downing) as Detective Kramer, Paul Maxwell as Lab Technician, Elizabeth Patterson as Miss Bessie, Ida Moore as Miss Birdie