Alfred Hitchcock presents

  
 

The Waxwork

  
     
 
 
     
 

 
     
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Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 12.4.59

Filmlänge: 23 Min.

Drehbuch: Casey Robinson nach einer Geschichte von A. M. Burrage

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Regie: Robert Stevens

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Darsteller: Barry Nelson (Raymond Houston), Everett Sloane (Mr. Marriner), Shai K. Ophir (Bourdette).

Inhaltsangabe: Mr. Marriner is an owner of a wax museum. He lets a reporter named Raymond Houston stay the night at his waxworks in order to right a story. At night, the reporter sees the wax figure of a murdering barber named Bourdette. The statue comes to life and tells the reporter to get ready for a shave. In the morning, the reporter's body is discovered. He sits in a barber chair as if ready for a shave. His body is unmarked. Marriner concludes that he must had died of fear brought on my an overactive imagination.

Info: This episode is based on the short story "The Waxwork" by A.M. Burrage. This story was first published in Burrage's collection Someone in the Room (1931).

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