Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) Ten O'Clock Tiger (1962) User Reviews

Greed is NOT good.

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 21 April 2021]

"Ten O'Clock Tiger" is the second episode featuring Frankie Darro and the first with Robert Keith, though Keith's son, Brian, was in many episodes of this series. The theme and setting for this one is a first for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", as it's about boxing and much of it's set in a gym.

When the episode begins, Boots (Darro) insists that a certain broken down horse will win a race....and The Professor (Keith) is impressed when the horse does win...and sets a course record. How? Boots tells him he has created a formula that gives animals amazing power and it's undetectable. So, The Professor decides to try it on a fighter who is way, way past his prime. Soon, the guy looks unstoppable. As for Boots, he urges The Professor to just let the old guy retire. But, The Professor is greedy and want to make his fighter the champion. And, since this is "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", you know sooner or later there's going to be a twist.

This is a pretty average episode of the series....enjoyable, well written and with an appropriate ending. Worth seeing.

Nobody Wins

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 4 June 2021]

The boxer will go to jail for killing his manager. The manager is dead. I suppose the bookie has no access to the money they made--or it was all bet on the match. The key here is just a lesson in humanity and opportunism. These guys should have been on easy street, but the nature of one of them does everyone in. It's an interesting story. Very far fetched.

The harder he fell

[searchanddestroy-1 · 8/10 · 12 October 2019]

That's a sad tale actually this one about a poor fellow prizefighter whose manager is crooked enough to inject him drug made for race horses. Yes, a sad and cruel tale for this naive poor guy. The same, but in a lesser talent way to show it, as Mark Robson's THE HARDER THEY FALL.. It's nearly a cliche to show how ruthless boxing managers may be, but that's unfortunately the awful truth. Expected but excellent ending. And sad too...Unusual for this series more oriented towards ironic and funny endings.

"He'll make out like General Custer."

[classicsoncall · 4/10 · 4 April 2022]

I wasn't very impressed with this episode. It leads to a somewhat classic Hitchcock conclusion, but the thing that turned me off was the casting of the boxer, Soldier Fresno. Actor Karl Lucas has a fairly extensive credits list on IMDb, but if he had any clue about boxing, you can't tell here. In any scene he's in where he has to fight, he flails away like he didn't really know what he was doing. The story would have been much more credible if Soldier, even if he was over the hill, showed any kind of athletic ability at all. Instead, he looked clumsy and awkward, which didn't say much for his capability as a fighter. If you can overlook that, the story does have the kind of irony one expects with a Hitchcock episode, circling back to the way Soldier's manager Arthur Duffy (Robert Keith) described the boxer to Boots Murphy (Frankie Darro) at the beginning of the program, noted in my summary line above.

SPOILERS

[skinflint-18083 · 17 February 2024]

SPOILER! SPOILER! SPOILER!

This episode was stupid and embarrassing as expected. The fake boxing looks just like that; fake. I hate most sports movies and television shows for just that reason. Not to mention, always portraying the athletes as buffoons. While managers and handlers are selezy crooks. They always seem to be in the sport for a quick buck while generally placing huge bets on the outcome. They always keep the athlete in the dark while taking adventage them. The result of the fights seldom are ever in question. I try to shy away from programs such as this.

Not close to being a favorite episode.