Alfred Hitchcock presents

Special Delivery

Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 29.11.59

Filmlänge: 23 Min.

Drehbuch: Ray Bradbury

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Kamera: Lionel Lindon

Regie: Norman Lloyd

Produzent: Joan Harrison, Norman Lloyd (Associate Producer)

Darsteller: Steve Dunne (Hugh Fortnam), Beatrice Straight (Cynthia Fortnam), Peter Lazer (Tom Fortnam), Ethel Shutta (Mrs. Goodbody), Frank Maxwell (Roger), Michael Burns, CeCe Whitney, Alfred Hitchcock (Moderator).

Inhaltsangabe: Young Tom Fortnum (Peter Lazer) receives a special delivery package sent from the Great Bayou Novelty Greenhouse, an order of mushroom seeds from a mail order company advertising to "grow your own mushrooms in your cellar for fun and profit." The young boy is fascinated with the hobby, as are the other children in the neighborhood, but his father, Bill Fortnum (Steve Dunne), becomes suspicious when one of the neighbors disappear. After piecing together clues, Bill finally thinks he has the mystery solved. The mushrooms are actually a form of mind-controlling Martians, planning one-by-one, to take over the bodies of humans. His wife, Cynthia (Beatrice Straight), thinks the idea is ridiculous, but when Bill confronts his son in the basement, he finds boxes of the plants growing all over the place and young Tom, with eyes glowing in the dark, demands his father digest a few mushrooms... hmmmm....

Info: Teleplay by Ray Bradbury, based on his short story "Come Into My Cellar". Edward W. Williams (Schnitt), John J. Lloyd (Bauten/Dekorationsbau), Julia Heron (Bühnenbildner/Ausstatter), Vincent Dee (Kostüme), Jack Barron (Maskenbildner), Florence Bush (Friseur).

The teleplay for this episode would later be rewritten by Ray Bradbury into a short story entitled "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!". This story is also known as "Come Into My Cellar". This story was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction (October, 1962).

Neuverfilmungen:
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! 1989

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