Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

John Brown's Body (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [sitting on a giant scale as two foreign gentlemen in turbans fill the other scale with bags of money to weigh him]  Good evening and welcome to "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."

  [gets off the scale and thanks the men who salute him by touching their hands to their foreheads] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Thank you. See you next year.

  [to the audience] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : We thought you'd like to see this. So many of you have expressed an interest in knowing how I was paid. Now I can afford to go back to my diet. Tonight's play is about a body. Not mine. However, the title is "John Brown's Body."

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is still standing at the giant scale]  I hope that ending was properly terrifying.

  [opens and looks in one of the bags] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : What's this?

  [close-up of Hitchcock's hand taking sawdust from the sack] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Nothing but sawdust. Oh, well, two can play at that game.

  [pats his stomach] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : That's all I have here. This concludes our program for tonight. On our next program, we shall both be back. Me and my shadow.

  [points behind him] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Good night.