![]() ![]() Some of the actors involved included Robert Duvall, Charles Bronson, Barbara Steele, Vera Miles, Bette Davis, Vincent Price, Fay Wray, Dick van Dyke, Cloris Leachman, Angie Dickinson, Steve McQueen, Burt Reynolds, Peter Lorre, and even Alfred’s own daughter Patricia. The show also had massive star power behind it, treasured veterans and rising stars alike appearing in Hitch’s tales of mystery and murder. Though the same creative team from Presents stayed with the Hour series and all of the combined 363 episodes (270 from Presents, 93 from Hour) were produced and shot at Universal Studios in California, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour is typically seen as being a separate entity from its former incarnation. In 1962 the series adopted a longer 50-minute format and changed its name to the more fitting The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Who can forget the morbidly whimsical sound of Charles Gounod’s Funeral March for a Marionette, as Hitchcock’s shadow slowly fills the lines of his famous caricature? ![]() The opening sequence of the show itself has been imbedded within the consciousness of popular culture at large. what could possibly have improved NYPD Blue had they had seven times the time and five times the budget for each episode? they spent their time and money in the right places, and made serious art.Having already thrilled audiences with a good three decades of suspenseful filmmaking, Alfred Hitchcock turned his attentions to television and on OctoAlfred Hitchcock Presents premiered to home viewers everywhere.Ĭontaining individual stories concerned mostly with criminal acts and other dastardly goings-on, the show was a guaranteed means of fans getting their fix of Hitchcock’s trademark tension within a 25-minute time span in between sponsor commercials (which Hitch so brilliantly and balefully poked fun at during most of his opening monologues). The great TV producers seemed to realize how to make the medium’s budget and time limitations work for them. but as pure storytelling, it takes a back seat to nobody. his TV stuff can’t stand up to his feature work, from the standpoint of production values. Maybe Hitch had it right: do a 25 minute film in a week, instead of a 52 minute film in a week. Which is why this stuff looks so much more modern to me than stuff from the 70s, with the overused zoom lenses. Yup, before they began trying to urgently call attention to the camera, with zooms and fast cutting and wacko camera angles. ![]() Those I have seen are much like this one, average, entertaining but with no great images, just professional camera work that lets the writer and story take the forefront. For being called the ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (or HOUR), I am always surprise by those series camera work. Why not only could you see the closing credits, they ran so slow you could actually read all the names! This is a fun episode and a good example of the typical drama of the late fifties, early sixties. Did any one else notice that the girls playing shuffleboard were wearing high heels?Ĭhuck – I always felt there was something wonky in that shuffleboard scene, but I never could pin it down. Paul Hartman who played Potter also played Emmet the fix it man on the Andy Griffith show. Henry Slesar (1927-2002) had dozens of his stories adapted for TV and film, including 37 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes and 10 for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.Ĥ Responses to “A TV Review by Mike Tooney: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS “Not the Running Type.”” The final scene has Potter enjoying himself immensely aboard a cruise ship headed for the South Seas, where he will no doubt benefit from the nearly $200,000 he did NOT steal.Īll in all, an entertaining Hitchcock episode with zero violence content. Fisher offer him leniency if he’ll just cough up the boodle, Potter refuses and goes to prison.īack in the present, he has just been released — and only now does he tell the authorities where the money is. What he won’t do, however, is tell the police where it is. Not long afterwards, Potter turns himself in, freely admitting that he took the money and still has it. Milton Potter, a mild-mannered bank employee and just about the last man on earth anyone would suspect of doing such a thing, embezzled $200,000 from a bank 15 years ago. Fisher reminisces in a flashback about an old case he was assigned to as a new lieutenant. Based on a story by Henry Slesar ( EQMM, January 1959). Newton, and Murray Alper as Ship Passenger. Ellison, Wendell Holmes as Halverson, Herb Ellis as Lt. Paul Hartman as Milton Potter, Robert Bray as Capt./Lt. “Not the Running Type.” From Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 5, Episode 19. ![]()
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