Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Crackpot (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is pacing around a small room with just a small bench in it]  Good evening.

  Echo : Good evening.

  [Hitchcock looks up in annoyance] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [whispering]  Good evening.

  [gestures to the camera to come closer, which it does] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Certain parties have been objecting to my candid remarks. So, I'm doing tonight's show from this sealed chamber. It's as quiet as a tomb. Which is not surprising...

  Echo : Good evening.

  Alfred Hitchcock : ...since it was the only type of structure available to switch it out...

  [stops in annoyance] 

  Echo : Certain parties have been objecting to my candid remarks. So, I am doing tonight's show from this sealed chamber.

  [there is a slight pause and Hitchcock tries to speak again but the echo continues] 

  Echo : Which is not surprising.

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock in annoyance at the echo]  Are you quite finished?... Here, in a moment, is tonight's play. It is entitled "Crackpot."

  Echo : Are you quite finished?

  [Hitchcock shrugs and sits down, defeated] 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is standing and resting one leg on the bench]  We wanted to withhold the end of that story, but decided it was better that you learn the truth about Ray Loomis now than later.

  [there is banging and someone punches a hole through the wall. Hitchcock peeks into it and turns back in alarm] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : I knew it. It's the ITA. It's futile to try to escape. We shall be back soon with another play. Don't you try to escape. Good night.