Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Conversation Over a Corpse (1956)

Dorothy Stickney: Cissie Enright

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• Joanna Enright : Maybe we could take him out in sections.

  Cissie Enright : Sections? Oh. But wouldn't that be terribly untidy? I mean, mama's rug.

• Cissie Enright : Shall I read Mr. Brenner's tea leaves?

  Joanna Enright : He has no future. He's dead.

• [first lines] 

  Cissie Enright : [singing snatches of a song]  Who laughed with delight... You... frown... In the old churchyard... Gave her a smile... And trembled... And alone...

  [Joanna enters] 

  Cissie Enright : Oh, it's you, Joanna.

• Cissie Enright : [brings out bug spray]  If just a little will kill a fly, a whole can will do Mr. Brenner. It will be neat and very sanitary, too.

• Cissie Enright : We could poison him again, but we've used up all the capsules.

  Joanna Enright : I know! Weed killer! We didn't use it all on the roses.

• Joanna Enright : Cissie, there's plenty of it. And it says on the label, "70% arsenic." How do you think we ought to give it to him?

  Cissie Enright : Oh, with orange juice, I should think. That's the way I always take those nasty medicines.

• [last lines] 

  Cissie Enright : Thank you, Mr. Brenner, for telling the police exactly what happened. My, my, I hope they hurry. Everything's so upset.