Alfred Hitchcock Presents Series 1, Episode 21    Justis Addiss    Andrew Solt (story & teleplay)    Claire Trevor, Jacques Bergerac    19 February 1956    24:09 (total) • --:-- (film) • -:-- (Hitchcock)    6/10

Safe Conduct

A female writer, Mary Prescott (Claire Trevor) is traveling on a train in Germany and writing an article to be published in American newspapers about their country. She encounters a national hero on the train, a soccer legend by the name of Jan Guback (Jacques Bergerac) who first buys a pair of stockings from her and then invites her to dinner on the train that evening. During dinner Mary is approached by a professor who tells her that Germany has found a vaccine for polio. This professor is actually Captain Greisham (Werener Klemperer) who is working undercover. Later, Guback gives Mary a valuable watch to smuggled off the train for him but when the customs officers search her cabin he rats her out for having the watch. TRIVIA •

HITCH'S PROLOGUE (0 secs): X HITCH'S EPILOGUE (0 secs): X SPOILERS It's all an elaborate scheme by Guback to divert attention away from himself because he is carrying an important microfilm which contains incriminating evidence over a suspicious death of a prisoner.

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION... Quite a bland episode. The opening sequence with HItchcock forgetting his lines is complemented by long-time Laurel & Hardy co-star Charlie Hall.

THE CAST (click any image to enlarge)

Mary Prescott... CLAIRE TREVOR Jan Gubak... JACQUES BERGERAC Klopa... WENER KLEMPERER Officer... PETER VAN EYCK Conductor... JOHN BAUNER Customs officer... KONSTANTIN SHAYNE Waiter... RALPH MANZA (opening intro)... CHARLIE HALL

GALLERY (click any image to enlarge)

Acknowledgements: The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion by Martin Grams Jr & Patrik Wikstrom (book) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508238/ [IMDb] This page was last updated on: 12 February 2022