Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Silent Witness (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is still in the jail cell]  Well, you can't win them all. I understand that Don Mason was condemned to a cell

  [gestures to his surroundings briefly] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : very much like this one.

  [the camera pulls out as Hitchcock gets up to move a giant alphabet block on top of other blocks, revealing that he is actually dressed as a toddler in a giant baby playpen] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : And now, daddies and mommies, I think the time has come to lam out of here. Suppose you take this opportunity to escape, until next time of course.

  [Hitchcock begins to climb up the blocks out of the playpen when the sirens start to wail; he stops to aim and fire a water pistol through the bars directly at the camera] 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [a tight shot of Hitchcock in prison garb in a jail cell; he is holding tightly to a vertical bar with one hand while the other is akimbo]  Good evening, fellow inmates. I suppose you wonder why I'm here. I was picked up by an agent from the Federal Bureau... the Bureau of Standards, that is. He claims I was lying about my weight.

  [looks down at his prison clothes briefly] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : The er, vertical stripes were my tailor's idea. They not only give me that slim look, they also make it impossible for the guards to tell where the bars leave off and I begin. I have a different uniform for each day, and on each one, the stripes are closer together. In ten days, I expect to disappear completely. As for tonight's story, it is a somber little jape entitled, "Silent Witness". It will occupy this space in just a moment.