Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)
Number Twenty-Two (1957)
Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host
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Quotes
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[introduction]
Narrator : [With the chief detective and another man looking on, Hitchcock is standing alone in a police lineup, wearing a checked beret and leather jacket with no tie] This is a police lineup. Here desperate criminals who have been brought to bay appear before the detective force and are questioned by the chief detective. Listen.
Chief Detective : Take your hat off.
[Hitchcock takes off his beret]
Chief Detective : Name: Hitchcock comma Alfred. Height: five foot six. Weight: prisoner refuses to make a statement. Here's his record. 1940, picked up on "Suspicion." 1942, "Spellbound." 1944, "Notorious." 1955, "Rear Window." 1956, "The Man Who Knew Too Much."
[Camera cuts to a close-up of a scowling Hitchcock]
Chief Detective : Anything to say, Hitchcock?
Alfred Hitchcock : [Speaking in a working-class accent] Well, sir, I admit it ain't a good record. But I'm trying to do better.
Chief Detective : Better? You call this latest charge "doing better"? Appearing on television!
Alfred Hitchcock : I'm sorry, sir. But my family was hungry.
Chief Detective : Now, take him away.
Alfred Hitchcock : Wait a minute, sir. You've got the wrong man. Don't you want to see a sample of me work?
Narrator : Okay, here's what we found on him when we picked him up.
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[afterword]
Alfred Hitchcock : [Dressed back in his usual tie and suit, Hitchcock addresses the audience somberly] Occasionally, in our series, we touch on a subject that is far too real to be made the butt of my usual flippant remarks. Tonight's story of juvenile delinquency is certainly a case in point. And we have presented it with a hope that it might, in some small way, throw a little light on what has become a serious national problem.