Alfred Hitchcock Presents Series 1, Episode 8    Robert Stevens    Robert C. Dennis (teleplay); Dorothy L. Sayers (story)    Everett Sloane, Beulah Bondi    20 November 1955    24:37 (total) • --:-- (film) • -:-- (Hitchcock)    6/10

Our Cook's A Treasure

When a new housemaid (Beulah Bondi) moves into the home of a middle-aged married man (Everett Sloane) and his much younger wife (Janet Ward), he suddenly becomes sick. After reading in the newspaper that a housekeeper is still at large for poisoning other victims he starts to suspect he is a victim himself, especially after a laboratory confirms the presence of arsenic in his cocoa. After much deliberating, he fires the maid, who later turns out to be an important ally for him. TRIVIA •

HITCH'S PROLOGUE (-- secs): TO BE ADDED... HITCH'S EPILOGUE (-- secs): TO BE ADDED... SPOILERS Yep, it was the wife all along. Saw that one coming twenty minutes before the end!

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION... Unfortunately, the suspense is quite subdued by the predictability of the conclusion here. Amusingly, each new episode is presented by Hitchcock with a touch of humour; this one has him sampling three glasses labelled X,Y and Z. 'Z' is poison.

THE CAST (click any image to enlarge)

Ralph Montgomery... EVERETT SLOANE Mrs. Sutton... BEULAH BONDI Ethel Montgomery... JANET WARD Earl Kramer... ELLIOTT REID George Brooks... GAVIN GORDON Secretary... DORIS SINGLETON Dr. Pritchard, card player... WALTER WOOLF KING Chemist... OLAN SOULE

GALLERY (click any image to enlarge)

Acknowledgements: The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion by Martin Grams Jr & Patrik Wikstrom (book) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508224/ [IMDb] This page was last updated on: 25 October 2020