Alfred Hitchcock Presents - S02E04 - Kill with Kindness
Hoping to pull off an insurance scam, Fritz Oldman and his sister Katherine decide to torch his house and fake Fritz's death. In order to pull off the scam, they need a body.
Starring: Hume Cronyn • Carmen Mathews • James Gleason Writer: A.J. Russell (story) Director: Herschel Daugherty
An American journalist meets a soccer star while traveling behind the Iron Curtain, but then is arrested as a suspected smuggler.
Starring: Claire Trevor • Jacques Bergerac • Werner Klemperer
Writer: Andrew Solt (teleplay)
Director: Justus Addiss
A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.
A young man tries to insinuate his way into a monastery, in order to gain revenge on a thief whom he blames for ruining his life.
Starring: Everett Sloane • Sean McClory • Mark Damon
Writer: Robert C. Dennis (teleplay)
Director: Robert Stevens
Two retired insurance salesmen confront an aggressive, hostile woman in hopes of saving her from a disaster.
Starring: Jo Van Fleet • Robert H. Harris • John Qualen
Writer: Ray Bradbury (story and teleplay)
Director: Robert Stevens
Gil Larkin is suspected of murder when Mona Cameron's allegedly abusive husband is shot dead in front of him, and he gets knocked out by an unknown assailant.
Starring: Robert Horton • Cara Williams • Jack Mullaney
Writers: Bernard C. Schoenfeld (teleplay) • Richard Pedicini (story)
Director: Arnold Laven
While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald • Virginia Gregg • Bobby Clark
Writers: Marian B. Cockrell (teleplay) • Margaret Cousins (story)
Director: Don Weis
After Dana Edwards' fiancée Laura is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he is visited by John Hurley, who claims to be able to use memory recall techniques that will help him to remember the car's license plate number.
Starring: Biff McGuire • Robert H. Harris • Rachel Ames
Writers: James P. Cavanagh (teleplay) • A.J. Russell (story)
Director: Robert Stevens
Before leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Once in the United States, he receives correspondence tipping him off that the murder will undoubtedly be exposed.
Starring: John Williams • Isobel Elsom • Arthur Gould-Porter
Writers: Francis M. Cockrell (teleplay) • John Collier (story)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
A man who reads too much pulp fiction finds himself playing Sir Galahad to the blonde in the apartment downstairs. It seems she's burdened with a corpse.