The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Where The Woodbine Twineth

Genre: Thriller

Erstausstrahlung: 11.1.65

Filmlänge: 48 Min. 23 Sek.

Drehbuch: James Bridges nach einer Geschichte von Davis Grubb

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Regie: Alf Kjellin

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Darsteller: Margaret Leighton (Nell Snyder), Juanita Moore (Suse), Carl Benton Reid (Capt. King Snyder), E.J. Andre (Preacher), Joel Fluellen (Jesse), Eileen Baral (Eva), Lila Perry (Numa).

Inhaltsangabe: Nell Snyder has been taking care of her orphaned neice and has been growing more and more concerned over her neice's behavior. Her neice continually blames all the trouble she causes on an imaginary friend named Mr. Peppercorn. When the girl's grandfather Captain King Snyder gives her a Creole voodoo doll, Nell grows more and more worried. Her nieces says the doll came from Mr. Peppercorn. She names it Numa and treats as if it were a real person. Eventually, Nell becomes convinced that the doll is real and that it is trying to take her neice's soul. She follows her neice and Numa into the forest. There she frightens her away, not realizing that the switch has already occurred. She later sees the doll and discovers that it bears her neice's face.

Info: This episode is based on the short story "Where the Woodbine Twineth" (also known as "You Never Believe Me") by David Grubb. The short story was first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February, 1964).

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