Alfred Hitchcock.

[mickd1961]

I’ve watched a few episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on SKY ARTS today.

Some of these episodes are getting on for 70 years old and still they’re absolutely brilliant.

Superb short stories, terrific yet simple scripts and cinematography is without equal.

The bloke was a genius.

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I always liked Tales Of the Unexpected until It was quite easy to work out it wasn't unexpected at all. The best one which really did have an unexpected ending was 'Lamb To The Slaughter'

It was when the policeman husband announces that he is leaving his wife Mary who then bashes him over the head and kills him with the frozen leg of lamb. She asks the investigating cops to stay for a lamb roast dinner and obviously they then unsuspectingly eat the evidence. Great ending....just realised it wont be very unexpected now for those who havn't seen it!!

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It was always fun trying to spot Hitch himself in the films. In the film Lifeboat there was a lack of passers by so the audience failed to spot him in a newspaper advert for a weight loss programme that happened to be on the lifeboat with survivors onboard.