Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Man from the South (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [afterword] 

  Self - Host : Now you know how Venus de Milo got the way she is. By the time the poor old girl won an automobile, it was impossible for her to drive it. Of late, there's been a great talk about pay-television. Actually, most of us already have it. And here is the gentleman who makes us pay.

  [commercial] 

  Self - Host : I'm not sure what to say. That last commercial left me completely underwhelmed. Perhaps I should simply bid you adieu until next week when my, um, sponsor and I shall return with another story. Good night.

• [introduction - Hitchcock is standing in the 'win' section of a two-dollar window] 

  Self - Host : Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the land of two-dollar windows and quarter-horses. Racing has been called the sport of kings, but here at the two-dollar window, I've bet relatively few of them.

  [turns to see a man in the 'show' section] 

  Self - Host : Well, apparently there's no business like show business. And speaking of shows, we have one following the next race. Those of you who wish to bet may still do so. Naturally, I can't give you any tips, but there's one entry that has been timed at just one minute flat.

  [a bell rings] 

  Self - Host : Ah, there he is now.

  [Hitchcock looks through his binoculars as an announcer says "They're off and running!"]