Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)
Crackpot (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host
Quotes
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[introduction]
Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is pacing around a small room with just a small bench in it] Good evening.
Echo : Good evening.
[Hitchcock looks up in annoyance]
Alfred Hitchcock : [whispering] Good evening.
[gestures to the camera to come closer, which it does]
Alfred Hitchcock : Certain parties have been objecting to my candid remarks. So, I'm doing tonight's show from this sealed chamber. It's as quiet as a tomb. Which is not surprising...
Echo : Good evening.
Alfred Hitchcock : ...since it was the only type of structure available to switch it out...
[stops in annoyance]
Echo : Certain parties have been objecting to my candid remarks. So, I am doing tonight's show from this sealed chamber.
[there is a slight pause and Hitchcock tries to speak again but the echo continues]
Echo : Which is not surprising.
Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock in annoyance at the echo] Are you quite finished?... Here, in a moment, is tonight's play. It is entitled "Crackpot."
Echo : Are you quite finished?
[Hitchcock shrugs and sits down, defeated]
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[afterword]
Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is standing and resting one leg on the bench] We wanted to withhold the end of that story, but decided it was better that you learn the truth about Ray Loomis now than later.
[there is banging and someone punches a hole through the wall. Hitchcock peeks into it and turns back in alarm]
Alfred Hitchcock : I knew it. It's the ITA. It's futile to try to escape. We shall be back soon with another play. Don't you try to escape. Good night.