The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Life Work Of Juan Diaz

Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 26.10.64

Filmlänge: 48 Min. 31 Sek.

Drehbuch: Ray Bradbury nach einer Geschichte von Ray Bradbury

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Regie: Norman Lloyd

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Darsteller: Alejandro Rey (Juan Diaz), Pina Pellicer (Maria Diaz), Frank Sivera (Alejandro), Larry Domasin (Jorge), Valentin de Vargas (Police Chief), Alex Montoya (Coffin Maker).

Inhaltsangabe: Juan Diaz is dying and penniless. His last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. About a year later, a gravedigger named Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery. He has it mummified and sotries it in a crypt with a number of other mummies. Juan wife, Maria, discovers Alejandro plan and steals Juan's body. She hangs it in the house and tells tourists that it is a authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eye of the corpses body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done.

Info: This episode is based on the short story "The Life Work of Juan Diaz" by Ray Bradbury. The short story was first published in Playboy (September, 1963).

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