Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)

Date of Original Broadcast: 13 April 1958
Episode Running Times:
Format: black and white
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Producer: Joan Harrison
Associate Producer: Norman Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script / Story: Roald Dahl

DIRECTION
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Assistant Director: Hilton A. Green

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John L. Russell

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

SOUND
Sound: William H. Lynch

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jack Barron
Hair: Florence Bush

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: John J. Lloyd
Set Decorator: James Redd

CAST
Barbara Bel Geddes (Mary Maloney)
Alfred Hitchcock (himself / host))
Harold J. Stone (Lieutenant Jack Noonan)
Allan Lane (Patrick Maloney)
Ken Clark (Mike)
Robert C. Ross
William Keene (print man)
Tom Wilde
Otto Waldis (Sam)
Alfred Hitchcock (himself / host)

PLOT SUMMARY

When her husband announces that he wants a divorce so he can be with his lover, Mary Maloney snaps and bludgeons him to death with a frozen leg of lamb. When the police come calling, Mary invites the investigating officer to join her for dinner...

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter (1979)

KEYWORDS

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Last Updated: 15 October, 2008