Original-Titel: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Horseplayer

Deutscher Titel: Alfred Hitchcock zeigt: Der Pferdewetter

Genre: Triller

Studio: Revue Studios

Erstausstrahlung: 14.3.61

Filmlänge: 25 Min.

Drehbuch: Henry Slesar nach einer Geschichte von Henry Slesar

Musik: ?, Zusätzliche Musik von Charles Gounod (from "Funeral March of a Marionette") (main theme).

Kamera: John L. Russell

Regie: Alfred Hitchcock

Produzent: Joan Harrison (Associate Producer)

Darsteller: Claude Rains - Pater Amion, Ed Gardner - Hr. Sheridan, Kenneth MacKenna - Bischof Cannon, Percy Helton - Morten, the church sexton, Mike Ragan - Mr. Cheever, the plumber, William Newell - zweiter Bank-Kassier, David Carlile - erster Bank-Kassier, Ada Murphy - alte Frau "Have mercy on us", John Yount - Ministrant, Jackie Carroll - Ministrant, Holly Bane - Hr. Cheever, Alfred Hitchcock - Gastgeber (Host).

Inhaltsangabe: Der eifrige Rennplatzbesucher Mr. Sheridan spendet einen Teil seines Gewinns in der Kirche, damit sein Glück sich mehre. Pater Amon läßt ihn einen Teil des Gemeindevermögens setzen, bekommt aber ein schlechtes Gewissen und betet darum, daß das Pferd nicht gewinnt.

Info: Filmed at Revue Studios, January 4-6

Präsentation der TV-Show durch Alfred Hitchcock: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Someone had the brilliant idea that I should don this costume in order to dramatize the title of tonights play, it is called ‘The Horseplayer’. Just a moment, you forgot something. I´m sure you want to know, who authored this clever charade. His previous works include the following one-minute audio collage.

The sponsor is being unusually difficult about this matter of the horse costume. I´ve explained the labour-saving advantages of employing a real horse to do the work of two men but he is so enchanted with this pun of his, on the word horseplayer, that he insists on having it out with me. I should be back shortly. It will only take a minute to put him in his place. (clip) (music and two men in horse costume which splits into two)

Neuverfilmungen:
-

Links:
-