Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Mink (1956)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Himself - Host : [Hitchcock is still standing inside the cage]  So much for the case of the stolen stole. I think I'll give up my diet.

  [he walks past the bars and outside the cage which actually has no sides] 

  Himself - Host : Exercise, that's it. I think I'll take up sports again.

  [leans casually on the bars of the cage from the outside] 

  Himself - Host : I'm quite an athlete, you know. I particularly excel in chess, falconry, wife-beating, that sort of thing. Thank you for coming. Please call again. Our next visiting hours will be just one week from tonight. Good night.

• [first lines] 

  [opens with Hitchcock cutting the bars of the cage he is standing in with a tiny saw] 

  Himself - Host : "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage." But they help. They help.

  [camera pulls out to reveal Hitchcock in a zoo-like cage with a sign, 'Do Not Feed', hanging outside it] 

  Himself - Host : Actually, this is my doctor's idea. When he says strict diet, he means strict diet.

  [points briefly to the sign] 

  Himself - Host : The saw came in the traditional way, inside a cake. Have you ever had a piece of calorieless cake? I should have eaten the saw and used the cake to bludgeon my way out. However, I do not want to concern you with my petty problems, but with those of Paula Hudson. Paula was one of those persons who had never spent a day in jail or even being given a parking ticket. Then one day she found herself at the wrong end of the finger of suspicion. You will see Paula's story in a moment. It is called "Mink" from the fur of the same name.