#ALFRED HITCHCOCK VICIOUS CIRCLE SERIES#
#ALFRED HITCHCOCK VICIOUS CIRCLE TV#

Susan George takes the helm for a remake of the famous 'Lamb to the Slaughter,' in which a murderous wife must dispose of her unorthodox weapon. The amusing 'William and Mary' finds Elaine Stritch as a widow who learns that her ridiculously strict husband (who hated music, smoking, and merriment of any kind) has now been preserved as a functioning brain, complete with sensory attachments. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat' (adapted from the classroom staple short story) about an adulterous woman whose lover gives her a new coat - which she must then get past the eyes of her husband. The wonderfully twitchy Julie Harris stars in 'Mrs. Though not as taut as the definitive Peter Lorre version, this is a decent introduction to the show and features a nicely indulgent performance from Ferrer. José Ferrer stars as Carlos, a gambler who initiates a gruesome bet with American sailor Michael Ontkean: if the latter's lighter ignites ten times in a row, the sailor wins a Jaguar if not, he loses a finger. The first DVD set collects the complete first two seasons, kicking off with 'The Man from the South' (filmed before and since in different incarnations of Alfred Hitchcock Presents).

#ALFRED HITCHCOCK VICIOUS CIRCLE SERIES#

Hosting each episode from a cozy armchair in a drawing room, he offers anecdotes and insights into each story before the curtain rises as the colorful opening credits might suggest with its collision of flames, undulating women, and gambling imagery, this show is quite difficult to classify but could best be desribed as a series of mordant vignettes all more of less offering a mystery or suspense narrative. Eventually Dahl decided to steer the ship himself and hosted a nearly decade-long series, Tales of the Unexpected, with approved adaptations of his tales providing most of the material.

#ALFRED HITCHCOCK VICIOUS CIRCLE TV#

Published many times in a variety of volumes like Kiss Kiss, these mixtures of dark humor, horror, and fantasy were first brought to the public via TV anthology shows in the 1950s. Though most know him as the lovably demented mind behind such macabre children's classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, and Matilda, Roald Dahl also excelled at wry short stories for adults.

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