Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

One More Mile to Go (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Thank you. One less mile to go. Next week another script, another show. When electrons glide across your screen, bringing some new and unforeseen brand of murder. I mean the quiet kind, perpetrated solely in our mind. A gentle thump. A soothing splash. No bullet, shriek or livid gash. No stains, no fumes, no ugly splatter. We use only the purest subject matter. Good night.

  [Hitchcock walks off and passes the bust of his head now up on a pedestal. He stops and holds his own head to check, then turns back to grab his bust off the pedestal and exits] 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Good evening. Most of you have doubtless read how Anne Boleyn lost her head. King Henry VIII, no longer fascinated, said, "Let her be decapitated." Thereupon the legend goes, her ghost roamed about each night with utmost dignity and charm, with her head tucked underneath her arm.

  [camera pulls back to reveal Hitchcock holding a bust of his own head] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Now with two heads it occurs to me, I can think more clearly than with three. However, if the worst should come, one head's a basic minimum. Therefore, in my work, I hardly dare to roam about without one spare. Tonight's legend tells of modern life and how to solve a problem: wife.