Hitchcock Directs The First Episode Ever - "Revenge" | Hitchcock Presents

[@missvickie9381]

I like that he put a coin in the parking meter before he entered the hotel.

[@ds99]

Yes because he’s a very law abiding citizen.

[@arganiaspinosa9122]

@@ds99 lmao, yea except for that little murder business.

[@cameronduff884]

You sure don't want a record of your visit or meter maid witness.

[@KutWrite]

@@cameronduff884 But he left his fingerprints on the victim's doorknob. Plus, he kept the murder weapon.

[@eganc1976]

I fuCCs wit Revenge

[@francesfarmer736]

I just love Ralph Meeker, very underrated actor

[@brendaleverick3655]

Yes, he was handsome and charismatic.

[@francesfarmer736]

Yes! Ralph Meeker didn’t go along with the Hollywood system so he didn’t get the parts that A list actors did. He was also great in “Something Wild” with Carroll Baker in the early 60s had buy dvd from eBay…..

[@IrisHuntley-xe6cr]

See him in kiss Me Deadly,fantastic movie,director and actor.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

This episode starring Vera Miles as the traumatized wife first aired 1955, five years before Hitchcock's film Psycho, wherein she played the sister of the Janet Leigh character killed at the Bates Motel. So here when her husband proposes that they go to a less traumatic place like a hotel, clueless as to future events she agrees.

[@poetcomic1]

Magnificent Hitchcockian moment at 9:20. We see the mirrored image of the victim and then both mirrored images and then just shadow murdering shadow in a mirror! HOW EFFING COOL IS THAT. A superb moment of flawless direction.

[@HansDelbruck53]

Who's we?

[@poetcomic1]

@@HansDelbruck53 We, meaning the viewers.

[@HansDelbruck53]

@@poetcomic1 Oh, I thought you had a frog in your pocket (as my old drill sergeant used to say). But I was one of the viewers and I didn't see it.

[@poetcomic1]

@@HansDelbruck53 Actually I am royalty and I was using the 'Royal We'. My mother was Horseradish Queen of St. Clair Co. Illinois.

[@HansDelbruck53]

@@poetcomic1 You should be proud that it was horseradish and not horse....

[@SuperCHERISHED]

This was such a powerful episode. The wife was traumatized by the violent attack. She needed psychiatric hospitalization. I can't imagine the horrific terror to have someone attack you in your home which is normally considered your sanctuary. The husband was in absolute shock when after killing the perpetrator his wife had identified, she then identifies another person. What a nightmare for the couple. I knew something was seriously wrong because the wife's answers were all robotic, agreeing to what ever her husband said. She was in a state of shock. Her mind was trying to protect her from further pain.

[@Mehki227]

But she wasn't attacked. At least at that time.

[@dickurkel6910]

​@@Mehki227What do you mean?

[@neilmiller3220]

THANKS RUINED THAT CLEVER ARNT YOU

[@brianbyczek-m6p]

this was series #1 episode #1 the......

[@mozarkozark]

LOL thats not what happened. The wife lied and made her husband act on his animal instincts.

[@philthomas8351]

So many good memories of Hitchcock. This episode with Vera Miles and Ralph Meeker is my all time favorite show. Love seeing Aunt Bea too.

[@eganc1976]

Yayyyy.... are we all related?

[@HansDelbruck53]

I hate Aunt Bee as much as I love, and lust after, Vera Miles.

[@Liberalcringemind]

Hitchcock, the best of the best. Vera Miles, whom he used in his biggest box office Psycho. "He killed me" means "he raped and beat me". Hitchcock = 🐐 I'm 35 but I've watched all of the man's best work, there will never be another AH. Does anyone else remember his ride at Universal Orlando? Brilliant.

[@GG-py9vp]

Fantastic episode. I’ve been looking for this for so many years. I first saw it when I was young and it just stuck in my mind - such a great twist.

[@jamesrivera4947]

One of only 17 AHP episodes out of 267 that Hitch actually directed 🎬

[@cadaverdog1424]

Never knew that!! Did AH ever appear in one, as he did in his films??_______

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Beaten and badly hurt, without a bruise, scratch or blood on her, and her hair looks perfect!! 😆😂

[@yvonnetomenga5726]

The viewing audience in those days did not want to see that realism. Too many memories from WW II. And as a family show, explicit sexual assault would have been totally unacceptable. Adults understood the implications. Children were protected from adult content. Remember, those were the days of 1 TV the whole family watched together.

[@circomnia9984]

Lol, one of the best of the series. Just imagine his shock.

[@trawlins396]

They just took this episode off of Roku. I have a feeling someone complained. The whole "believe all women" thing.

[@Danileptic]

Attacking someone so brutally because she just said oh that one????? I mean it was maybe his fault too. Her hair was in perfect shape and no bruises and nothing. You should be able to see she had a mental problem and a whole different thing happens to her at home. Soooo maybe they both better get into the asylum lol.

[@philthomas8351]

The wife (Vera Miles) doesn't know what planet she is on. Good episode!

[@tonyabaldwin6530]

Love Alfred Hitchcock Shows.. I live in Santa Cruz and when I go over Hwy 17 I see Alfred Hitchcock's Estate (has 2 Lions outside the gate it's very Eerie)

[@lindastansell4056]

This was made the year I was born 1955 I'm 64. February 2020 I'll be 65. It's an old show

[@sharksport01]

Oh darn, I thought it was new.

[@rrrobeltnest7295]

i saw this in the 60s and couldn't remember the show. it stood out to me my whole life after meeting certain women. now i know the show..

But it feels young. That's all that matters.

[@geemom04]

I was 6

[@marymurray6163]

I'm 62 and it's still a good show

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Thank goodness, the lady in the trailer next door was Andy Griffith's Ain't Bea.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@49jubilee Because in this AHP episode, her name is "Mrs. Ferguson"; it ain't "Bea"? ("Ain't" was how the Andy Griffith Show white sheriff pronounced "aunt.")

@@JudgeJulieLit I'm southern and Hollywood does exaggerate how we speak. Kevin Spacey in House of Cards was trying to emulate an upper class low country (coastal) accent that has almost died out. As for aunt, everyone I know says ant. Black people pronounce it differently but not like ain't. Southern accents vary great from region to region and cities versus rural, as well as educational levels and social class. I live in a midsized city in the same state I grew up in and my accent is different from the people here.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@49jubilee The 1948 debut of television in America started a mass audience exposure to a small group of averaged, more educated, e.g., Midatlantic (New England : British) and California accents as spoken by news anchors, documentary show hosts and other figures seen and heard as authoritative) and so over decades a gradual mass averaging, deregionalization of US accents. Exceptions would be in particular subgenres of tv drama such as Westerns (where for credibility characters must sound like 19th century Westerners of varying classes and places, e.g., countries of origin) and (if you will) "Southerns" depicting the original and extant accents (as on the circa 1960 Andy Griffith Show) of US regions still remote and isolated enough to retain their distinct accents. Latter usually rural, but too urban, as in sitcoms The Honeymooners.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@ Thank you for those insights.

[@ds99]

On the credits it’s spelled Aunt Bee. Like a bumble bee. 😂

[@poetcomic1]

This is the dawning of what became known as the 'water cooler episode' - what everyone was talking about at the office the next day! Twilight Zone was another 'water cooler' delight as well. From the beginning Hitchcock (who directed this episode himself) knew the surprise twist ending was the 'pay off' on television, especially with 26 minutes of screen time in the half hour format.

[@guineapig4701]

Nice husband. Love Vera Miles.

[@santinowilliams693]

Ahhh the good ole days of censorship consideration and respect for the audience where they didn't show them bash a guys head in with a wrench only the shadows of the attacker ( Ralph Meeker) doing it leaving everything to the viewers imagination but unfortunately in this case it was the wrong guy.

[@Bebe7077]

Can't agree more. Such a great comment! 💙

[@feliciaackerman8804]

There's nothing disrespectful about the graphic depiction of violence. Being squeamish, I wouldn't want to watch it, but I don't think everyone has to be like me.

[@DanielLiebert-i1p]

First you see the two men in the mirror and then you see one shadow murdering another shadow on the wall.... reflected in the mirror! Amazingly brilliant Hitchcock moment.

[@paulneilson5845]

I’m up to episode 5 of series 6 and I can’t get enough. It’s some of the best tv I’ve ever seen.

[@supermilkguy]

Ralph Meeker was so handsome back then.

[@rochellesmith9025]

He revives her with alcohol lmao

[@AllenMacCannell]

And has a good smoke while she's very sick in bed next to him. Ahh, what memories of the good old days. By the way, airplane ✈️ cigarette smoke was the best for healthy breathing.

[@death2pc]

I recommend meth, but alcohol works, too.

[@lcam9241]

​@@death2pcnoooo😂 I actually laughed out loud

[@Danileptic]

Reminds me of that YT video of Angel dust where he said people back then thought it's a good idea. Sick? Meth! Pain? Meth! 😂😂😂

[@salonim3833]

😮 Mr. Hitchcock is a great storyteller

[@melindasimon3027]

This deserves at least 100 comments

[@сиднипрескотт-щ3л]

Now it has 200

[@bishopaz]

I remember this episode. Chilling

[@edrepard]

Ralph Meeker, great in Paths of Glory and Kiss Me Deadly

[@castinmeadows6956]

He was also great in many other productions (and exceedingly so on the live theatrical stage early in his career). A vastly under-valued actor. He was that rare thing in Hollywood: not just an actor, but an artist - one with an eye for finely-etched portrayals. And, apparently, one with vast and varied interests and gifts beyond acting. He merited far better, but didn't fit (didn't wish to conform to?) easy categorization on screen. His chameleon-like range and talent was, in his peak years (including toward the end of the Hollywood studio system), not an asset in the eyes of the commercial film industry, but (can be presumed to have been) a deterrent to box-office profits. Nice that you have remembered him here, and by way of two of his best portrayals.

[@annakularski2270]

Do my senses deceive me or was that “Aunt Bea” who went for the police!

[@matthewpegram7834]

That's ant b child!

[@mmeduvennet3316]

Yes Aunt Bee

[@lcam9241]

Anna you have good senses. I would have never picked up on that.

[@Mehki227]

Yes. Who wouldn't recognize Ai6n't Bee?

[@asullivan4047]

If she was in a police line up-???🤔 I wouldn't have been able to properly (ID) her. Had I not rewound the the episode-???🤔 That's her alright-!!!😉

[@brendaleverick3655]

I loved this episode. However, the volume needs to be louder, and I want to see the entire episode. 📽️🎞️🎬🎭📺

[@brendaleverick3655]

@@beachchaos1863 Thanks!

[@adrianna24sings]

Alfred Hitchcock, one of the best directors of all time. Being directed by this film genius was a treasure. Sad that the innocent man checking into hotel room 321 had to die.

[@qualqui]

ah, Aunt Bee before she went to Mayberry, NC to help Andy raise Opie, she was here in Hitchcock's episode! ;)

[@jamesrivera4947]

I don't wanna talk about it anymore, aunt Bea. I don't wanna talk about it!

[@glendaperkins9231]

How dare the husband make alarming statement his wife has been badly beaten, while slippers were still on her feet, not a mark on her body. And where did that flower in her hand come from. A drink and cigarette always aide the body. The husband reminds me of Bill Paxton. He had to feel pretty shity killing a innocent man and acknowledging his wife lost nothing but her mind, if she had it to begin with.

[@jwol11741]

Why was the flower in her hand? And why did the old neighbor lady creepily checking her out? Weird, almost like he put things in here to throw you off, or was it something else.

[@ufosrus]

First time ever I have figured out the end in a Hitchcock.

[@missestmi2044]

I feel the “He Killed Me” was some form of possible violation of her body. And it definitely was the lady… she was extremely fixated with her. But yes it’s very sad…

[@Mehki227]

No... No one touched her. She was delusional...

[@lindaluckett4032]

CLASSIC!! Blew me away! Genius!!

[@easyenetwork2023]

Think the detective played Roy Coffee in Bonanza, the Sheriff of Virginia City.

[@bruceraymond8611]

That's right!

[@MOGGS1942]

Ray Teal. He must have been in 99% of Westerns. 😁

[@jamesrivera4947]

Check him out in "Inherit the Wind," playing Jessie H. Dunlop, FARMER

[@bwsmyhero]

I just watched this episode on MeTV, and for some reason, the sound was like it was being sent through a pipe. Sometimes that hollow pipe sound was very loud. It’s not my TV, because as soon as there was a station break, the sound was normal, and was normal when Hitchcock “wrapped it up” at the end. Very odd! But the episode sounds normal here on KZbin.

[@kmttaseti]

I noticed that strange noise while watching this episode on MeTV as well. It sounded like airplanes.

[@petulia67]

Yep. At first I thought it was because they lived near an airport but it was constant. Very odd.

[@DD-d6d3]

This is why you should never resort to vigilante justice.

[@KutWrite]

Yeah. DAs convict enough innocent men as it is.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Well, the shoe fashion has not changed since then!! 😆😂

[@mznaeture]

Dang he clobbered dude for nothing yo

[@ds99]

I’m guessing she must be crazy. He didn’t realize she was crazy.

[@GyrlBlaque]

Aunt Bea

[@elizabethbowie9753]

@49jubilee yeah. Taylor Opiefannokie !!!

[@MikeGreenwood51]

S1E1 "Revenge" Alfred Hitchcock Story by : Samuel Blas Ralph Meeker as Carl, Vera Miles as Elsa First Aired October 2, 1955.

[@shananalexander9789]

I just watched a version of this with Linda Purl. Full version.

[@glendaperkins9231]

Shannon Alexander I remember a different segment in the beginning the wife sitting outside her trailer talking to the neighbor fill me in on the title I can't find it again.

[@shananalexander9789]

Glenda Perkins I thought I lost you. I am gonna find this movie with Linda Purl. It’s so sad at the end it will make you cry. I promise I will find it and give you the name of the movie. Linda played a ballerina. She was scared to leave her apartment. Thank

[@glendaperkins9231]

@@shananalexander9789 oh, I always thought this one was the ending. I haven't found it yet but I will try harder simply because your version sounds great I would like to see it. Thanks.

[@glendaperkins9231]

@mister XY that's the one I didn't want to think I was going crazy. I'm just a senior movie buff and at times the ol' mind can be decietful talking about one movie and explaining another. Thanks👍

[@shananalexander9789]

Glenda Perkins It’s 1985 version and dailymotion has it with Linda Purl. I can’t find the one you are talking about with the woman sitting outside

[@bruce92106]

Aunt Bee! LOL! She's the neighbor lady. And at 23:17 when they're flying up the coast in the convertible Olds, who can guess where that is? That's a relatively VERY uncrowded Manhattan Beach, like, OMG! I knew I recognized the pier. Go pause it in that little snippet then go Google Earth what Manhattan Beach looks like today, PACKED, sardines! Ugh.

[@Marcus-we3ig]

Saw this last night and I thought they magnified the ocean wave noise, or it was really loud that day.

[@miguelvidalmartinez9456]

This is basically 'Irreversible' but classy.

[@markbrookes6557]

Loved it!

[@Portia-oc6mr]

I remember this episode very well.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/entertaining. Enjoy viewing 👀 the automobiles/ parking meters/store front windows of that era🤗. I especially enjoyed the look 👀 on the drivers face. After the 2nd assailant was identified as the attacker-!!!😳

[@Brenda-t5r]

Good episode. The good old days, before America took a nosedive. Imagine the doctor coming to your home, when you call for him! 👨🏻‍⚕️

[@wondergranny2299]

That was a good one!

[@MsPridi]

Very good message 😊❤️

[@ddscene2453]

Love this one! Can any one explain what her symptoms Was or her diagnosis?

[@MikeGreenwood51]

SSRM -Stark Stareing Raving Mad.Likely brought on by the smoke after her burning her favorite cake in the oven. All too much, resulting in a hemorage of the cranial frontal cortex causing that fixed blank stare. A sad case of course. Very sad. Similar effect as concussion but with memory damage so the same information keeps going around and around 'That's him'. Seven years in a mental asylumand she still sat blankly staring our in to nowhere uttering 'That's Him'. 'That's him'.

[@cadaverdog1424]

Syphilis__

[@1flare709]

Ptsd followed by delusional ideation

[@sheerluckholmes7720]

A simple case of "Thunberg Neurosis".

[@elainehall3950]

Another very good episode 👏

[@runner0075]

Is it so short ?only 11 minutes ?

[@kaan7747]

It is the complet episode please because i can't find the first episode. Can someone put published here please

[@YoWhatsUpFellas]

My grandma is making me watch this. (She would have been 7) But i just wanted to know the ending before she did.

[@joematus410]

Love this show

[@OldWB1]

I saw that coming.

[@beachchaos1863]

I just love Vera Miles. So much.

[@beachchaos1863]

I still love Vera Miles. So much.

[@beachchaos1863]

Why I *still* love ha 💟

[@pvsmanian1]

a twist in the end.

[@billolsen4360]

0:02 Love that Oldsmobile! But later, 10:07, it seems to turn into a Dodge.

[@helanesolomon1724]

Is this the entire thing? Even if it is it's still a great episode

[@sheiladavis6523]

Helane Solomon yes it's more to this episode of Alfred Hitchcock & to me Ralph Meeker is a great actor 📺& 📺 8-17-19

[@helanesolomon1724]

Sheila Davis I didn't even realize that was him. Yes, superb actor and superb episode.

[@helanesolomon1724]

William Hutchinson thanks. This stands alone as a cautionary tale of don't believe everything a mentally unstable woman says

[@sheiladavis6523]

@@helanesolomon1724 and don't believe everything a stable woman says either stable women do tell lies too 😳 August 19 , 2019

[@ginger3467]

THATS HIM!

[@johnbowman1076]

I think this tale may be as old as time itself. And I know I've seen it done before. Seem to recall the guy was attacked outside.

[@bobjones2460]

What happened? He killed the guy?

[@AllenMacCannell]

@@bobjones2460 I'm assuming she wanted to get rid of her husband via jail

[@bobjones2460]

@@AllenMacCannell Interesting take!

[@shananalexander9789]

@Glenda Dickens Never mind the version with Linda Purl. It’s the same ending.

[@conniebythelake8181]

That one has stuck with me all these years. I wonder what its called.

[@Themanwhocameback2]

iNTERESTING Vera Miles played the mentally troubled wife of Henry Fonda in in Hitchcock's movie, "The Wrong Man", around the same time. Perhaps this role was a run through of sorts.

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

From the description, jumps, ending, etc, much of this episode is missing.

[@Iammarijari]

Very very nice episode

[@maruthivardhan9]

He unnecessarily killed someone

[@gregakinson2800]

Partial pieces of episodes is a real drag.....

[@joline2730]

I think that is the same 'wife' who was in The Wrong Man, and she played a zombie in that film, too.😮

[@LordDeliverUs]

The 1950's. Would that we could return to such an era.

[@jamesrivera4947]

The polio was probably the best part, then the racial segregation 😏

[@QueenFan12]

Those things don’t define the 50s

[@ghostlyimageoffear6210]

​@jamesrivera4947 okay you stay here because you're not wanted anyway. And uh, the country was created for the descendents of those who created it, not leeching interlopers to complain, instead of staying in their own countries.

[@PrisonerofChrist81]

Aunt Bea did it. See the way she looked at her legs?😁

[@jwol11741]

@@PrisonerofChrist81 yea, it was very strange the pause to show her checking out her body. Very strange and weird, Hitchcock was a genius

[@misty28882]

Yep! That was aunt bea of Andy Griffith show

[@Heart2HeartBooks]

I freakn knew it!!!!!!!!!!!! There he is. didn't even see his face!

[@annreiter284]

westill love this stuff..

[@dianepriore9576]

Good citizen !!

[@robb7398]

Why is it less than 12 minutes long?

[@SeaSalt935]

So where is the rest of this movie? Why can I not find the full versions of these movies of Alfred Hitchcock Presents🤔??

[@SeaSalt935]

@Dorothy Crawley thank you

[@ladyscarfaceangel4616]

Angels Flyy Also Hulu in the Huluween section right now. In the states anyway. I don’t know if they show the same things in other countries. Think Netflix is a lil different depending on where it is.

[@lydiaarenas6184]

All Hitchcock movies alway end with ironic twist opposite of what you expect in a bad way

[@PrisonerofChrist81]

Peacock app has got em all now..even the Alfred Hitchcock hour

[@realitycheck3363]

Lol, hope there's still a couple of men left in America by the time he's done taking out all the guys she identifies!! XD XD XD

[@matthewpegram7834]

Always lock your door/ never ever be that free!!!

[@kmttaseti]

Yes including your car doors. Why? Recently a friend was stopped at a red light when from nowhere a stranger opened his car's backdoor and entered. My friend's 10-year old son was sitting in the front. My friend asked/told/demanded the intruder get out of his car. Finally after a few minutes the man exited the car.

[@Danileptic]

I never get over people not locking doors. Out car locks automatically when it stands still.

[@PamelaKenp-jb2gy]

The look these men give when they know their girl is wrong 😂

[@almohvn33]

WOW!!!!

[@thomasjpuleo8112]

Now Aunt Bee. Oh Andy . . . !

[@joematus410]

Cool shows

[@mariehaikal3048]

i expected the ending

[@mohans287]

A Hallucinating wife and a harassed husband.

[@heartbreak71]

Aunt Bea oh my

[@heartbreak71]

Vera Miles too

[@annmacleod1099]

It's not my imaginary world it's yours .its not my revenge its yours .

[@dgomez8015]

I can't really understand. What really happened here. What was the revenge about ?

[@сиднипрескотт-щ3л]

Good husband

[@lindastansell4056]

I didn't see where she'd been beaten

[@lindastansell4056]

That's what he told Aunt Bea

[@bigmassive69]

They didn't show much of that in cinema back then. A lot of it was infered. The fact they showed a relative closeup of female legs from the calves down while Mr.Meeker was carrying Ms. Miles was mildly risqué for the time.

[@lifespanwellnessbeauty-60i64]

Me either.

[@janesmith7676]

@@bigmassive69 I don't think it's really that as much as the possibility being left open that she wasn't really attacked. Seems to be open to interpretation that she could have hallucinated the assault as part of a mental breakdown.

[@bigmassive69]

@@janesmith7676 You may be right. This was a superbly crafted episode that it could give different people different perspectives of what may have happened.

[@alexisfrancis8562]

Vera was from Kansas

[@boostboost8567]

Out walking the streets? How do you know, he might be stealing a car....at least he isn't walking the streets....

[@leishayoung4124]

They re-made this one in the 90s re-boot of Hitchcock presents.

[@bobjones2460]

No, 1985.

[@brianbyczek-m6p]

.............................I hate these incomplete versions ! It ruins the complete video when you do see the complete episode. All because of greed from the new owner of the copyright .................how pathetic !

[@jt414]

Cute -- but I guessed the end

[@WolfKing-dv6xd]

Wow, Aunt Bee is the psycho...

[@lindastansell4056]

No blood splatter

[@bigmassive69]

They didn't do that back then. "Blood" was seldom seen.

[@routitramnath7784]

Sheriff coffee , from bonanza