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"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)
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13 April 1958
(Season 3, Episode 28)
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When Mary Maloney's police chief husband is found murdered, the police investigate and have a hard time trying to find the murder weapon. full summary | add synopsis
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Bel Geddes Has The Last Laugh!
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(Episode Complete credited cast) | Alfred Hitchcock | ... | Himself - Host |
 | Barbara Bel Geddes | ... | Mary Maloney |
 | Harold J. Stone | ... | Lieutenant Jack Noonan |
 | Allan Lane | ... | Patrick Maloney |
| Ken Clark | ... | Mike |
| Robert C. Ross | ||
| William Keene | ... | Print Man |
| Thomas Wilde | (as Thomas Wild) | |
| Otto Waldis | ... | Sam |
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30 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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Version of "Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter (#1.4)" (1979)
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This is one of the most famous episodes in the history of this long-running series. I am glad it is because one of my favorite actresses, Barbara Bel Geddes, was the star of this particular story.
She plays a sweet wife, something she was good at doing with her soft voice and pleasant face. (See "Caught," with Robert Ryan.) Her husband comes home from work and is strangely silent. Mary (Bel Geddes) couldn't be nicer to the crabby hubby and finally he speaks up, saying coldly that we wants a divorce because he loves another woman. Although devastated, Mary exacts revenge pretty quickly by slugging the brute in the back of the head with a big club of frozen lamb as he is about to leave the house. It kills him.
The rest of the show, which comprises the bulk of it, is the police investigation headed by Lt. Jack Noonen (Harold J. Stone).
The fun part is near the end when we see what happens to the murder weapon.
I defy anyone to watch this episode and not laugh at Barbara's smile and chuckle at the end! She was such a good actress. It's one of Hollywood crimes that she never was given the opportunity to be the movie star she should have been.
Note: Roald Dahl, who became famous for writing "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory" and other bizarre kids' stories, wrote the screenplay!