Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Number Twenty-Two (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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• [introduction] 

  Narrator : [With the chief detective and another man looking on, Hitchcock is standing alone in a police lineup, wearing a checked beret and leather jacket with no tie]  This is a police lineup. Here desperate criminals who have been brought to bay appear before the detective force and are questioned by the chief detective. Listen.

  Chief Detective : Take your hat off.

  [Hitchcock takes off his beret] 

  Chief Detective : Name: Hitchcock comma Alfred. Height: five foot six. Weight: prisoner refuses to make a statement. Here's his record. 1940, picked up on "Suspicion." 1942, "Spellbound." 1944, "Notorious." 1955, "Rear Window." 1956, "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

  [Camera cuts to a close-up of a scowling Hitchcock] 

  Chief Detective : Anything to say, Hitchcock?

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Speaking in a working-class accent]  Well, sir, I admit it ain't a good record. But I'm trying to do better.

  Chief Detective : Better? You call this latest charge "doing better"? Appearing on television!

  Alfred Hitchcock : I'm sorry, sir. But my family was hungry.

  Chief Detective : Now, take him away.

  Alfred Hitchcock : Wait a minute, sir. You've got the wrong man. Don't you want to see a sample of me work?

  Narrator : Okay, here's what we found on him when we picked him up.

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Dressed back in his usual tie and suit, Hitchcock addresses the audience somberly]  Occasionally, in our series, we touch on a subject that is far too real to be made the butt of my usual flippant remarks. Tonight's story of juvenile delinquency is certainly a case in point. And we have presented it with a hope that it might, in some small way, throw a little light on what has become a serious national problem.