A wife refuses to let her husband squander away the money from a 133,000-dollar sweepstakes ticket inherited from her first dead spouse, so he plans on killing her.A wife refuses to let her husband squander away the money from a 133,000-dollar sweepstakes ticket inherited from her first dead spouse, so he plans on killing her.A wife refuses to let her husband squander away the money from a 133,000-dollar sweepstakes ticket inherited from her first dead spouse, so he plans on killing her.
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- TriviaA major plot point of this story is the Irish Sweepstakes, a national lottery set up by the Republic of Ireland to generate funds for the country's hospital system. As lotteries at that time were still illegal in the U.S., this particular one was quite popular. One thing not mentioned in the story was that United States federal income taxes were still exceedingly high then and that most of the winnings would go to the government and not to Mrs. Archer. She'd be lucky to receive $27,000 out of the $133,000. Still, that amount would be equivalent to about $291,000 in 2024.
- GoofsThe first time Steve plugs in the electric heater in the bathroom, the cord to the wall socket is around the height of his thighs or waist and stretches across the width of the room, but he's able to somehow move back and forth between the bathtub and the mirror on the other side of the room without being impeded by the cord.
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[afterword - Hitchcock returns to the greenhouse to see the grown plants]
Alfred Hitchcock: You can see how effective the lamp is.
[picks up a shovel that's grown larger]
Alfred Hitchcock: It looks as though I should turn off the lamp. I shall do so following the following.
[commercial break]
Alfred Hitchcock: I'd better be off in case the lamp does something to me. I'll be back next week with another story. Until then, good night.
- ConnectionsVersion of Suspense: Post Mortem (1949)
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
By the way, at one point I predicted that the husband would light a cigar with the winning ticket by accident. He talked about telling off his boss and using a ten dollar bill to light a cigar. I'm glad I was wrong.
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- Jul 5, 2013
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1