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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Cheney Vase
episode 1.13
USA 1955
produced by Alfred Hitchcock for Shamley Productions, Revue Studios/CBS
directed by Robert Stevens
starring Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones, George Macready, Kathryn Card, Ruta Lee, Alfred Hitchcock (host)
written by Robert Blees, music supervisor: Stanley Wilson
TV-series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Having just lost his job at the museum, Lyle Endicott (Darren McGavin)
is down onhis luck ... until he hears of a priceless vase in the
possession of wheelchair-bound rich widow and wannabe sculptor Ms Cheney
(Patricia Collinge), an acquaintance of his, and learns Ms Cheney has just
been left by her personal assistant - so he usurps that job, and within
days he fires her maid and makes Ms Cheney more and more dependent from
himself ... but he also sees to it that she no longer leaves the house,
cuts her phonelines and forbids her to see anyone - and soon enough, Ms
Cheney figures that all Endicott really wants is the Cheney vase. But when
Endicott finally moves in for the kill (literally), he is in for a shock,
as he finds out that Ms Cheney has spent all her time locked away in her
house to create one vase after the other, all identical to the priceless
Cheney Vase, and now Endicott can by no means figure out which the right
vase is ... Well written and nicely told crime story with a
twist ending, remarkably mature in a way for a mid-1950's TV-show.
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