Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

The Manacled (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is still struggling to free himself and then the penny drops. He lifts the table and removes the cuff from the bottom of the leg]  At least I can get home now. I hope to have my hand free next time you see me. If I do, we should be able to present another story. Why not tune in and see? Good night.

  [continues to try freeing the cuff] 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and television fans all over, uh, the living room floor. Tonight's drama is called "The Manacled" and features a pair of these attractive and useful charm bracelets.

  [Hitchcock holds up a pair of open handcuffs] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : These, of course, are stage handcuffs especially made so that one can easily get out.

  [cuffs one of his wrists and opens it again] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Of course, as you may know, these little trinkets are not only used to cuff hands, they work very well on legs. Regardez.

  [Cuffs one of his wrists and bends to cuff the other to a table leg] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is now struggling to uncuff himself] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : While I'm getting out of this, perhaps we better begin our play. Ladies and gentlemen, "The Manacled."