Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Revenge (1955)

Date of Original Broadcast: 2 October 1955
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CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Associate Producer: Joan Harrison

SCRIPT
Script: Francis Cockrell
Story: Samuel Blas

DIRECTION
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Assistant Director: Jack Corrick

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: Hugh McDowell

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer / Supervisor: Vincent Dee
Make Up: G. McGarry

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Martin Obzina
Set Decorator: James S. Redd

CAST
Ralph Meeker (Carl Spann)
Vera Miles (Elsa Spann)
Frances Bavier (Mrs Fergusen)
Ray Montgomery (man in grey suit)
John Gallaudet (doctor)
Ray Teal, Herbert Lytton (police lieutenants)
Norman Willis, John Day (real name: John Daheim) (cops)
Lillian O'Malley (hotel maid)
Alfred Hitchcock (himself / host)

PLOT SUMMARY

Carl and Elsa Spann move to a trailer park in California following ballerina Elsa's nervous breakdown. One day, Carl returns home from work to find Elsa traumatized and hysterical after a man assaulted her. When the police are unable t find any clues, Carl decides to take the law into his own hands.

KEYWORDS

anthologies, ballerinas, doctors, hotels, mobile homes, nervous breakdowns, police, revenge, trailer parks

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008