Tv movies

The Tv movies featuring as episodes in the Tv series "Alfred Hitchcock presents" will be presented below.
The Tv series was launched in what appeares to be Hitchcock's most productive period, the fifties. For this purpose he established the production company Shamley Productions, named after the country house by the small English village Shamley Green, the Hitchcock family bought using his first income as a director in 1928. The following were hired as permanent staff on the Tv series:
Joan Harrison (loyal co-worker from the British era) was hired as producer, Francis Cockrell was the permanent scriptwriter, James Allardyce was the one hired to write the short, black and ironic/macabre intro, Hitch appeared in just before every episode.
The first episode was launched on October 2, 1955, in the period from 1955 to 1962 they were able to produce 365 episodes. Only 20 of these episodes was directed by Hitchcock; these movies were nothing but pastime, occational inferior work between the more serious filmmaking - in addition he didn't exercise complete control over the scriptwriting as he would normally do, in fact he didn't seem to participate in the scriptwriting at all. He developed a routine that enabled him to make a 30 minute Tv movie in two days of rehearsal and two days of shooting.
I will go through the 20 Tv movies Hitchcock directed below.

30 min.
Scr: Francis Cockrell and Louis Pollock.
Cast: Joseph Cotten.

30 min.
Scr: Francis Cockrell and A.I. Bezzerides from an original story by Samuel Blas.
Cast: Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker.

30 min.
Scr: Francis Cockrell from an original story by Anthony Armstrong.
Cast: Tom Ewell, Raymond Bailey, Kirby Smith.

30 min.
Scr: Francis Cockrell from an original story by John Collier.
Cast: John Williams, Esobel Elsom.

30 min.
Scr: Marian Cockrell from an original story by John Collier.
Cast: Sir Cedrick Hardwicke, John Williams, Tina Purdom.

30 min.
Scr: Serett Rudley from an original story by Emily Neff.
Cast: Mary Scott, Robert Horton, Meg Lundy, Dayton Lummis.

30 min.
Scr: James Cavanagh from an original story by F.J. Smith.
Cast: David Wayne, Louise Larrabee, Steve Brodie.

30 min.
Scr: Sterling Silliphant from an original story by Ben Ray Redman.
Cast: Vincent Price, James Gregory.

60 min.
Scr: Francis Cockrell from an original story by Cornell Woolrich.
Cast: E.G. Marshall, Nancy Kelly, Richard Long, Jesslyn Fax.

30 min.
Scr: Roald Dahl from his own original story.
Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Harold Stone, Allan Lane.

30 min.
Scr: Robert Dennis and Frank Cockrell from an original story by Roald Dahl.
Cast: Keenan Wynn, Louise Platt, Phillip Bourneuf.

30 min.
Scr: Casey Robinson from an original story by Roald Dahl.
Cast: Wendell Corey, James Donald.

30 min.
Scr: Francis Cockrell from an original story by Rupert Croft-Cooke.
Cast: John Williams, Kenneth Haigh, Max Adrian, Reginald Gardiner.

30 min.
Scr: James Cavanaugh from an original story by Arthur Williams.
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Hazel Court, Patrick Macnee.

30 min.
Scr: Sterling Silliphant from an original story by A.E.W. Mason.
Cast: James Donald, Patricia Owens, Werner Klemperer.

60 min.
Scr: Charlotte Armstrong from her own original story.
Cast: Paul Hartman, Vera Miles, George Peppard, Bob Sweeney.

30 min.
Scr: Halsted Welles from an original story by Roald Dahl.
Cast: Audrey Meadows, Les Tremayne.

30 min.
Scr: Henry Slesar from his own original story.
Cast: Claude Rains, Ed Gardner, Percy Helton.

30 min.
Scr: Harold Swanton from an original story by Margery Vosper.
Cast: Biff Elliot, Lucy Prentiss.

60 min.
Scr: Henry Slesar from an original story by Henry Cecil.
Cast: John Forsythe, Kent Smith, Evans Evans, Claire Griswold.