Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joel Oliansky
Ned Beatty
Lee Ving
Tony Frank
John Shearin
Arthur Taxier
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Synopsis
Recast and redirected recreations of four classic tales from the landmark "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" of three TV decades earlier, with introductions by a computer colorized Hitchcock himself (and voice-over narration by John Huston), comprised this television-movie anthology which became the pilot to a brand new half-hour Hitchcock series that began in the fall of 1985.
The first story, "Incident in a Small Jail," originally was broadcast March 21, 1961, and starred John Fiedler and Richard Jaeckel; the second, "Man from the South," about a gambler who makes a rash wager, initially turned up on March 13, 1960, with Peter Lorre, Steve McQueen and Neile Adams in the roles taken here by John Huston, Steven Bauer and Kim Novak (Bauer's wife, Melanie Griffith, also appears in this new version, along with her mother, Hitchcock discovery-of-yore Tippi Hedren, here playing a cameo as a somewhat overaged cocktail waitress), the third, "Bang! You're Dead!" about a youngster with a loaded gun, starred Billy Mumy when the short story first ran on October 17, 1961 (a long-since grown Mumy turns up in this version as a supermarket clerk), the fourth, "An Unlocked Window," was a one-hour suspense thriller when it aired the first time around on February 15, 1965, and starred Dana Wynter and John Kerr.
These four individual episodes recreated for the 1985 TV movie subsequently turned up on the new "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" series as half-hour installments.
Directors
Joel Oliansky
Steve Dejarnatt
Randa Haines
Fred Walton
Cast
Ned Beatty
Lee Ving
Tony Frank
John Shearin
Arthur Taxier
Walter Klenhard
Richard Lineback
Gene Ross
Jerry Curtin
Cynthia Hartley
John Huston
Melanie Griffith
Steven Bauer
Tippi Hedren
Kim Novak
Jack Thibeau
Danny De La Paz
Gail Youngs
Lyman Ward
Billy Mumy
Bianca Rose
Kale Browne
Jonathan Goldsmith
Mark L. Taylor
Linda Hoy
David Held
Gregory Levinson
Douglas Emerson
Christina Lange
Gail Barle
Gigi Vorgan
Annette O'toole
Bruce Davison
Owen Bush
Helena Kallianiotes
Ross Elliott
Nancy Burnett
John Huston
Crew
Edward M. Abroms
Jim Alexander
Catherine Arnold
Alan Barnette
James Bridges
Bridget M. Cook
Stephen Cragg
Stephen Cragg
Christopher Crowe
Christopher Crowe
Roald Dahl
Steve Dejarnatt
Mario Di Leo
John M. Elliott Jr.
William Fay
Tom Finan
Victor Dean Goode
John Goux
David Byron Lloyd
Andrew Mirisch
Dean Edward Mitzner
Joel Oliansky
Basil Poledouris
William B. Sackheim
Craig Safan
Henry Slesar
Harold Swanton
Margery Vosper
Fred Walton
Julie Weiss
Ethel Lina White
Rod Wilson
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Aired in United States May 5, 1985
The four stories included are: "Incident in a Small Jail," "Man From the South," "Bang! You're Dead" and "An Unlocked Window."
