Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

Mail Order Prophet (1957)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is sitting back in his office chair]  This concludes our entertainment. So until next time, when we shall bring you another story,

  [gets up, takes his bowler hat and umbrella that are hanging on a coat rack, and walks to the open window] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : goodbye.

  [bows, tosses both bowler hat and umbrella out the window, and walks off] 

• [introduction] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : [Hitchcock is standing in a high-rise office looking out the window at the streets below; there is a mass of ticker tape on the desk behind him; he turns to address the audience]  Oh hello, fellow speculators. I've just made a killing in the stock market, nothing to it. I simply told my partner we've been wiped out. He's a very excitable fellow.

  [looks out window and makes a sympathetic sound] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : Actually, I was joking. We haven't been wiped out. Actually, we made a tidy profit.

  [looks out window again] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : I wish he hadn't done it. We have a very sensitive elevator man. He doesn't like it when he brings people up, and then they don't ride down again. It confuses him.

  [walks forward and leans in] 

  Alfred Hitchcock : As for our story, it is called, "The Mail Order Prophet", and it too is set in the background of stocks and bonds.