Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 2
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 2
1956
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
TV Season
Season 2 - Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama and comedy about people of different species committing murders, suicides, thefts and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations; perceived or not. (imdb)
Directed by:
Paul Henreid
76 total credits
Credits include: Casablanca, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Now, Voyager, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Night Train to Munich
97 total credits
The acknowledged master of the thriller genre he virtually invented, Alfred Hitchcock was also a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor. His legacy is vast: books, tributes, film festivals, and imitators abound. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the monthly publication that bears his name, and other Alfred Hitchcock Presents anthologies, are still going strong.
12 total credits
Credits include: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Where Is Everybody?, Walking Distance, Never Love a Stranger and The Big Caper
Writers:
Robert Bloch 58 total credits
Credits include: Psycho, Psycho, Bates Motel, Asylum and Psycho IV: The Beginning
23 total credits
Credits include: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Terror in the Haunted House, Crime Against Joe, The Man Is Armed and Our Cook's a Treasure
Starring:
John Williams
45 total credits
Credits include: Dial M for Murder, Witness for the Prosecution, To Catch a Thief, Sabrina and The Paradine Case
22 total credits
Credits include: Psycho, Strangers on a Train, Stage Fright, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
97 total credits
The acknowledged master of the thriller genre he virtually invented, Alfred Hitchcock was also a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor. His legacy is vast: books, tributes, film festivals, and imitators abound. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the monthly publication that bears his name, and other Alfred Hitchcock Presents anthologies, are still going strong.
31 total credits
Credits include: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Witness to Murder, The Woman Who Came Back, Footsteps in the Night and Premonition
Ratings & Reviews
Mr. Princey's daughter has just murdered the schoolmaster. A murderess in the family? That won't do. It's up to Mr. Princey to frame someone else for her crime.
When her husband goes away on a business trip, Mary Summers is all alone in her house--and gripped with a nameless fear. Then an escaped mental patient breaks in.
Professor Rankin's buddies Wally and Bud stop by to take him fishing. They find him in his cellar, filling in a hole with cement. They suspect he may have also filled it with his wife.
Katherine Oldham feeds stew to a homeless man as she struggles to keep the mind of her brother, Fitzhugh--a butterfly hunter and birdwatcher--on the task of murder.
An antiques dealer feels he should be enjoying the finer things in life, but his Aunt Muriel is the one with all the money. Finding another man's wallet gives him an evil idea.
New York, 1910. Bookkeeper Al Birch expects the arrival of his sweetheart Edwina from 20 years ago. When she arrives, she is still every bit the lady. But she doesn't come alone.
Georgie Minnelli kills his old childhood enemy Lucky Moore for interfering in his pinball machine racket. Now Georgie desperately needs an alibi.
Cissie Enright is not exactly thrilled with the idea of poisoning the real estate man. But her sister, Joanna, insists that it's the only way.
A college boy with an unnaturally close relationship with his father suspects his stepmother of foul play.
A middle-aged mobster suspects his young wife is cheating on him. He gets in touch with Harry Silver, the best hitman in the business.
A book publisher visits two elderly sisters at their Louisiana mansion. One of them has written a murder mystery. And he learns that it may contain more fact than fiction.
A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.
An upstart furniture designer colludes with his boss's wife to drive her husband mad.
A Good Samaritan helps a newlywed couple with a flat tire. But when the groom accidentally dirties the man's suit, the stranger reveals himself to be a dangerous crackpot.
A man who reads too much pulp fiction finds himself playing Sir Galahad to the blonde in the apartment downstairs. It seems she's burdened with a corpse.
District attorney Martin Ross is running for governor and learns that his brother Richard has killed the other candidate Burton Reeves.
Shackled prisoner Stephen Fontaine tries to negotiate an escape from Sergeant Rockwell while en route to San Quentin.
Judge Connors shares amontillado and civilized conversation with the young architect about to steal his wife. But the quality of his mercy is strained.
Marital discord between writer Carl Borden and his wife Annette intensifies when poison is found in his food.
Young robber Steve Morgan is in jail for his first offense and too cocky for his own good.
An insurance investigator and his wife look into the case of Mrs. Gillespie, who has been widowed twice -- and has twice enjoyed windfalls from her husbands' life insurance.
A former nurse learns that when her husband is away on business trips, he's seeing another woman.
Broken-down actor Charles Gresham, who has a weakness for booze, demands that playwright Wayne Campbell give him a part. When Campbell refuses, Gresham resorts to blackmail.
A maid discovers the body of Count Victor Mattoni. It's up to Inspector Davidson from Scotland Yard to find the murderer.
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni.
Inspector Davidson continues to investigate the murder of Count Mattoni -- and receives yet another confession.
Sam Jacoby has his wife's corpse in the trunk of his car and is menaced by a motorcycle cop, who nags him about a taillight.
A hired killer reluctantly sets out to kill his own girlfriend as ordered by his crime boss, knowing he won't accept any failures.
Ernest Findlater is constantly nagged at by his wife so he fantasizes about Lalage, an exotic lover from the South Seas.
A newsman plays a joke on a homeless man by showing him a fake article that says the world is going to end that night, but the prank has deadly results.
A murderer has been strangling people in the London fog. A reporter manages to continually make it to the crime scene before the police.
In a small Massachusetts town, precocious young Hildegarde Fell learns a secret about crusty old John Anderson, who has just moved there.
A vain, querulous woman can't get a divorce from her husband. Luckily, he loves to garden. And he's just dug a nice big hole in the backyard.
Taxidermist George Tiffany has domestic trouble when his wife's visiting brother Waldren overstays his welcome.
London, 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders refuses to lend money to his son Sam, who is anxious to win over a cheap showgirl.
A lodge is selling cemetery plots, but nobody will buy one until the first person is buried there. The brothers turn to Mr. Weems.
A bored rich girl goes up to her cabin in the mountains. Before the night is over, she'll wish desperately she had just gone home.
Two men wait at a train station. A wailing siren periodically reminds them that a maniac has escaped from the local mental hospital.
Cast & Info
Directed by:
Paul Henreid 76 total credits
Credits include: Casablanca, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Now, Voyager, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Night Train to Munich
97 total credits
The acknowledged master of the thriller genre he virtually invented, Alfred Hitchcock was also a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor. His legacy is vast: books, tributes, film festivals, and imitators abound. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the monthly publication that bears his name, and other Alfred Hitchcock Presents anthologies, are still going strong.
12 total credits
Credits include: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Where Is Everybody?, Walking Distance, Never Love a Stranger and The Big Caper
Writers:
Robert Bloch 58 total credits
Credits include: Psycho, Psycho, Bates Motel, Asylum and Psycho IV: The Beginning
23 total credits
Credits include: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Terror in the Haunted House, Crime Against Joe, The Man Is Armed and Our Cook's a Treasure
Starring:
John Williams 45 total credits
Credits include: Dial M for Murder, Witness for the Prosecution, To Catch a Thief, Sabrina and The Paradine Case
22 total credits
Credits include: Psycho, Strangers on a Train, Stage Fright, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
97 total credits
The acknowledged master of the thriller genre he virtually invented, Alfred Hitchcock was also a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor. His legacy is vast: books, tributes, film festivals, and imitators abound. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, the monthly publication that bears his name, and other Alfred Hitchcock Presents anthologies, are still going strong.
31 total credits
Credits include: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Witness to Murder, The Woman Who Came Back, Footsteps in the Night and Premonition
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