Alfred Hitchcock presents

Summer Shade

Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 10.1.61

Filmlänge: 23 Min.

Drehbuch: Harold Swanton nach einer Geschichte von Nora H. Caplan

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Kamera: John L. Russell

Regie: Herschel Daugherty

Produzent: Joan Harrison, Norman Lloyd (Associate Producer)

Darsteller: Julie Adams (Phyllis Kendall), James Franciscus (Mr. Ben Kendall), Susan Gordon (Kate Kendall), John Hoyt (Rev. White), Charity Grace (Amelia Gastell), Stuart Nedd, Veronica Cartwright, Alfred Hitchcock (Moderator).

Inhaltsangabe: Ben and Phyllis Kendall (James Franciscus and Julie Adams) have been searching hard for the perfect home in Salem, Massachusetts when Phyllis has a sudden gut feeling which leads them straight to it. However the Kendalls become very concerned about their little girl Katie (Susan Gordon) when she befriends a new playmate it seems can't possibly be a real girl given their aren't any children in the neighborhood. In fact, all the evidence points towards her new friend "Letty" being either a figment of Katie's imagination (brought on by a children's book on the history of New England given to her by the house's previous owner Ms. Amelia Gastell [Charity Grace]) or else the spirit of a young girl deceased in 1692 of the pox!

Info: This episode proves delightfully amusing. I love the unexpected twist ending which clues us as an audience into the true reality of the situation but doesn't reveal everything to all the characters involved in the story. It's also comforting having so many familiar faces on hand including Julie Adams (Creature From The Black Lagoon), James Franciscus (Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, The Valley Of Gwangi, The Twilight Zone: "Judgement Night"), John Hoyt (Star Trek: "The Cage", Flesh Gordon, The Time Travelers, X-The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, Attack Of The Puppet People, When Worlds CollIide, Lost Continent and more), Susan Gordon (The Twilight Zone: "Jenny", Attack Of The Puppet People, The Boy And The Pirates, Tormented, Picture Mommy Dead, Miracle On 34th Street (1959) – Daughter of Bert I. Gordon) and finally a young Veronica Cartwright (Alien, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978), The Birds, "The X-Files" as Cassandra Spender, The Twilight Zone: "I Sing the Body Electric" and more). Another which should be very appealing to fans of the fantastic.

Edward W. Williams (Schnitt), Martin Obzina (Bauten/Dekorationsbau), Julia Heron u. John McCarthy Jr. (Bühnenbildner/Ausstatter), Jack Barron (Maskenbildner), Florence Bush (Friseur), James H. Brown (Regieassistenz), Harry Smith (Ton, Vincent Dee (Leitung Kostüme)

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