Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955

[introduction]

Alfred Hitchcock:
[carrying a cello case] Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. A special word to those of you who have been arrested while speeding home to see this show. I can do nothing to bail you out. And I'm afraid the magistrate is only slightly in my debt. I shall, however, do everything I can to make you forget your troubles. Tonight's narrative is about gangsters. And I thought I'd best test some of the props. [takes out a machine gun and shoots it; it makes the sounds of piano keys] I would like to play "The Flight of the Bumblebee." But we must get on with the show.