Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Safety for the Witness
Introduction
"Safety for the Witness" was originally broadcast on 23/Nov/1958 as part of the fourth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Cyril T. Jones makes guns for gangsters. After he sees two men kill an important witness in a mob trial, he is threatened. The police question him but he gives no information knowing that the mobsters will kill him if he talks. Later Cyril meets up with the two men and kills them with an elephant gun. He gives himself up, but the police refuse to prosecute him. (TV.com)
DVD Releases
The following official DVD releases contain this episode:
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Four - Universal (USA, 2009) Amazon (USA) NTSC 1.33:1 |
Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Produced by:
- Joan Harrison - producer
- Norman Lloyd - associate producer
Written by:
- John De Meyer - story
- William Fay - teleplay
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Host
- Art Carney — cast: Cyril T. Jones
- Robert Bray — cast: Lieutenant Flannely
- James Westerfield — cast: Commissioner Cummings
- Mary Scott — cast: Miss Copeland - Nurse
- Karl 'Killer' Davis — cast: Dan Foley (as Karl Davis)
- George Greco — cast: Tom - D. A. (as George Greico)
- James Flavin — cast: Joe Felix
- Doris Lloyd — cast: Gun Store Customer
- Dorothea Lord — cast: Hospital Cashier
- David Fresco — cast: Hotel Desk Clerk
Cinematography by:
- John F. Warren - director of photography
Edited by:
