Alcoa Premiere: "The Jail"; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Jar," "The Life Work of Juan Diaz
Alcoa Premiere: "The Jail"
ABC, 2/6/62
Directed by Norman Lloyd.
Justice in the not-so-distance future seems like a cruel joke to John Gavin’s disbelieving business man when he’s tried and wrongly convicted of a crime by a bank of computers. But his nightmare doesn’t really begin until he hears the sentence...
Screenwriter: Ray Bradbury. Cast: John Gavin, Bettye Ackerman, James Barton.
16mm, b/w, 60 min.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Jar"
CBS, 2/14/64
Directed by Norman Lloyd.
Enthralled by its mysterious contents, farmer Charlie Hill buys a strange jar from a carnival sideshow to impress his family and friends back home. The object soon casts its hallucinatory spell over the entire town until some want to make it their own.
Screenwriter: James Bridges. Cast: Pat Buttram, Collin Wilcox Paxton, William Marshall.
16mm, b/w, 48 min.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Life Work of Juan Diaz"
NBC, 10/16/64
Directed by Norman Lloyd.
After a dishonest gravedigger exhumes the body of a penniless man, his widow steals his mummified corpses and puts him back to work providing for his family.
Screenwriter: Ray Bradbury. Cast: Alejandro Rey, Frank Silvera, Pina Pellicer.
16mm, b/w, 48 min.
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