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Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 22.11.59

Filmlänge: 23 Min.

Drehbuch: Jerry Sohl nach einer Geschichte von Herb Golden

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Regie: Stuart Rosenberg

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Darsteller: Joseph Cotten (Courtney Masterson), Julie Adams (Peg Valence), Claude Stroud (P.I. Lester Elleridge), Don Gordon (Rudy Stickney), Angela Greene (Mrs. Masterson), Ted de Corsia (Inspector Salva).

Inhaltsangabe: Unknown to his wife, Courtney Masterson has a latenight encounter with his girlfriend at lover's lane. There they are attacked by a robber name Rudy. Courtney manages to overpower his attacker and locks him in the trunk. Fearing blackmail, he kills Rudy after taking his girlfriend home. The tells the police that he acted in self-defense. Later, however, he learns that his wife hired a detective to follow him to lover's lane. The detective knowing everything decides to blackmail Courtney.

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Präsentation der TV-Show durch Alfred Hitchcock:
Hitchcock: (closing narration) Private enterprise should be encouraged, but I think Mr. Eldridge was carrying it a bit far. There was one further development, however. It seems Mr. Eldridge also had a suspicious wife...and he too had been followed the preceding night.

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