Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Horse Player (1961)

Date of Original Broadcast: 14 March 1961
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Format: black and white
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CREDITS

DIRECTION
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

CAST
Claude Rains (Father Amion)
Mike Ragan (Mr Cheever)
David Carlile (1st bank teller)
Jackie Carroll (altar boy #2)
Ed Gardner (Sheridan)
Percy Helton (church sexton)
Kenneth MacKenna (Bishop Cannon)
Ada Murphy (elderly woman)
William Newell (2nd bank teller)
John Yount (altar boy #1)
Alfred Hitchcock (himself / host)

PLOT SUMMARY

Father Amion learns that the sudden increase in funds being donated via the collection plate is coming from a parishioner who is on an extraordinary winning streak at the race track.

KEYWORDS

anthologies, gambling, priests

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008