Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Heart of Gold (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

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Quotes 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock has his tie caught in the lathe]  Excuse me a minute.

  [he takes a knife and cuts off his tie] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : There.

  [pats the lathe] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : I've decided to give this machine to a very dear friend of mine. For two reasons. He's insufferable, and wears long ties. As for the girl you saw earlier, you'll be pleased to know that she acquired a job as a result of appearing on our program.

  [rests arm on lathe] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : A talent scout saw her and immediately signed her up as a pair of book ends. And speaking of ends, that is what this is, of our show, that is. But we shall be back another time with another story. Good night.

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is in a large room with machinery that includes a giant circular saw, lathe, and drill; he is filing away a piece of wood at the lathe when he notices the audience]  Oh, there you are; pardon me.

  [turns off lathe and tosses the wood away] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Good evening, fellow hobbyists. I've decided to do it myself. I'm sure most of you would expect me to be all thumbs.

  [he holds his lapels as he faces the audience and we see that his right thumb is bandaged] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : This is definitely untrue. The way things are going, I should be very lucky to have any thumbs at all. Tonight's story is about a parolee, and so I thought you might be interested in this machinery

  [nods briefly to the saw] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : which has been designed as a therapeutic measure for paroled convicts who may still harbour homicidal tendencies. It gives them a healthy outlet for their energies. You have a saw, lathe, drill...

  [gestures to each of the machines] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : As my first project, I've been, er, converting Chippendale furniture into kindling. I'm sure my work here would only bore you, so we've arranged to show you tonight's story in just a moment. Perhaps I should explain, this is a circular saw

  [turns to the saw and switches it on with a spark; the camera pulls out and we see a young lady struggling as she is tied to a giant block of wood on the conveyor belt that is moving towards the saw]