Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

A Bottle of Wine (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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Quotes 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is in a cellar behind a rack of wine bottles and tap barrels behind him]  Good evening. I came down here because I understand that the current year is a very good year for wine. For drinking it, that is. I'm looking for some er, champagne.

  [picks up a bottle and reads the label] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : "Not to be taken internally." Oh. "For bathing only." Fortunately, my tastes aren't so expensive. I bathe in ginger beer. That way one doesn't have to add a softener. All this is by way of introducing tonight's play. It is called, by an extraordinary coincidence, "A Bottle of Wine."

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is leaning with his arm against the wine rack]  Forsooth. Such knavery. Naturally the police apprehended Wallace and he paid for his ungentlemanly conduct. After all, one should not shoot one's host before dinner. This concludes our little preachment on the evils of drink. Tune in next time, when we shall again present a charming little horrific fairy tale. Good night.