Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Back for Christmas (1956)

Date of Original Broadcast: 4 March 1956
Episode Running Times:
Format: black and white
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CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Associate Producer: Joan Harrison

SCRIPT
Script: Francis Cockrell
Story: John Collier

DIRECTION
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Assistant Director: Richard Birnie

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John L. Russell

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: Richard G. Wray
Editor: Edward W. Williams

MUSIC
Music: Bernard Herrmann; Charles Gounod (from Funeral March of a Marionette)
Music Supervisor: Stanley Wilson

SOUND
Sound: Earl Crain Sr

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jack Barron
Costume Designer / Supervisor: Vincent Dee

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Martin Obzina
Set Decorator: Ralph Sylos

CAST
John Williams (Herbert Carpenter)
Isobel Elsom (Hermione Carpenter)
Ross Ford (butler)
Mollie Glessing (maid)
A.E. Gould-Porter (Major Sinclair)
Gerald Hamer (Mr Hewitt)
Theresa Harris (servant)
Lillian Kemble-Cooper (Mrs Sinclair)
Gavin Muir (Mr Wallingford)
Irene Tedrow (Mrs Hewitt)
Katherine Warren (Mrs Wallingford)
Alfred Hitchcock (himself / host)

PLOT SUMMARY

Herbert Carpenter is looking for a way to kill his wife Hermione - and he's already started digging her grave in the cellar...

KEYWORDS

anthologies, basements, wine cellars

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008