Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)

The Horseplayer (1961)

Alfred Hitchcock: Self - Host

Quotes 

• [introduction - Hitchcock is standing next to someone in the front half of a horse costume] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Someone had the brilliant idea that I should don this costume to dramatize the title of tonight's play. It is called "The Horseplayer".

  [the man in the costume begins to walk away] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : Just a moment. You forgot something.

  [Hitchcock gives him the other half of the costume] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : I'm sure you want to know who offered this clever charade. His previous works include the following one-minute audio collage.

• [afterword] 

  Alfred Hitchcock - Host : The sponsor is being unusually difficult about this matter of the horse costume. I've explained the labor-saving advantages of employing a real horse to the work of two men, but he is so enchanted with this pun of his on the word "horseplayer" that he insists on having it out with me. I shall be back shortly. It will only take a minute to put him in his place.

  [commercial break, then Hitchcock and the other man appear in the horse costume that splits in half with Hitchcock in the rear end]