Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

The Better Bargain (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is still holding the machine gun]  To summarize the next reel, Harry did as he threatened, and Marian lived happily ever after. She had a rich, full life. It was too bad Harry was not there to share it with her, but of course,

  [Hitchcock shrugs] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : crime does not pay, murder will out, etcetera, etcetera. And now, good night until we again bring you a saga of suspense and/or mystery. Good night.

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [carrying a cello case]  Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. A special word to those of you who have been arrested while speeding home to see this show. I can do nothing to bail you out. And I'm afraid the magistrate is only slightly in my debt. I shall, however, do everything I can to make you forget your troubles.

  [walks over to a table] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Tonight's narrative is about gangsters.

  [places cello case on table and opens it] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : And I thought I'd best test some of the props.

  [takes out a machine gun and shoots it; it makes the sounds of piano keys] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : I would like to play "The Flight of the Bumblebee." But we must get on with the show.