Alfred Hitchcock presents

The Landlady

Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 21.2.61

Filmlänge: 23 Min.

Drehbuch: Robert Bloch nach einer Geschichte von Roald Dahl

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Regie: Paul Henreid

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Darsteller: Dean Stockwell (Billy Weaver), Patricia Collinge (The Landlady), Laurie Main (Wilkins), George Pelling (Bert), Burt Mustin (Garvis), Barry Harvey (Tom), Jim Livesey (Rose).

Inhaltsangabe: Billy Weaver (Dean Stockwell), a mild-mannered bank clerk, arrives in a small provincial town in England looking for a new residence, and finds a boarding house with thrifty rates. The landlady (Patricia Collinge) is a little peculiar, but Billy shrugs it off, assuming her rational mind expired from age. She explains that there are two other boarders, but it strikes him strange that he never sees them. One afternoon Billy has tea with his landlady, and observes that her pet parrot is not really alive, but rather stuffed. Asking her about it, she explains that she has all of her pets stuffed after they pass away, a talent she possesses and occasionally practices. All too late, Billy realizes...

Info: The short story "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl story was first published in New Yorker (Nov 28, 1959).

Neuverfilmungen:
The Landlady 1979

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