Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Together (1958)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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Quotes 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is putting up a display of glasses and bottles of alcohol on an office desk]  Good evening, fellow revellers. Tonight, we are indulging in an old city tradition. It is the event that turned a mild-mannered white-collar worker into a four-armed beast of prey.

  [shows off the display] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : The office party. However, we had this room designed especially for the party

  [looks back briefly] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : by the girls in the office. It has no corners. I am in charge of the entertainment which all should enjoy. After most of the hors d'oeuvres have been eaten, we're going to throw a company director to the lions. I realize it isn't much, but the lions are a great deal cheaper than the string quartet we had last year. They don't drink as much either. And now, for the party.

  [pours himself a drink] 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is standing next to a lion lying on the office desk]  If you think Tony Gould is in trouble, you should have been at our party. My fastidious friend here

  [looks briefly at lion] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : refused to eat the company director we had prepared for him. The other workers are furious. Several of them were only one heartbeat away from a promotion. It was all I could do to rescue Leo from the crowd. People can be quite vicious once they get the smell of blood. My friend here is taking me home with him tonight. However, I shall be back again next time with another story.

  [Hitchcock and Leo look at each other] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Good night.

  [what sounds like the beginning of a lion's roar is cut off by the theme music]