Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Our Cook's a Treasure (1955)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Himself - Host : That was a warm and touching little fable, wasn't it? The kind of story that gets you right here. Oh, about my wine-testing. I'm afraid I was very much mistaken about brand Z. You will be relieved to hear there was nothing wrong with it. Nothing had been added. You see, it wasn't wine. It was mosquito spray. The arsenic belonged there. Apparently, the mosquitoes prefer their spray very dry. Next week at this same time, I shall invade your living rooms again, provided your television set holds up. Good night.

• [first lines] 

  Himself - Host : Oh, good evening. No, I'm not drinking on the job. Not for pleasure at any rate. I am an amateur wine taster. A friend suspects that someone has been tampering with his wine. Of course, there's no use going through the trouble of a laboratory test when any self-respecting gourmet can detect impurities.

  [sips from one glass] 

  Himself - Host : Nothing wrong here. A very fine Burgundy, a Romani Conti, I would say.

  [sipf from another glass] 

  Himself - Host : This is Muscatel. Homemade, no doubt. The do-it-yourself craze knows no bounds.

  [sips from the last glass] 

  Himself - Host : Something foreign *has* been added. A large quantity, too. Anyone could have detected. But exactly what?

  [drinks the entire glass] 

  Himself - Host : I have it. Arsenic. I wish I had more. It-It-It's very good, really. That is, if you like a very dry wine. While you wait to see what possible effect this may have on me, you may watch our dramatization of one of Dorothy L. Sayers' stories.