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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.