Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Greatest Monster of Them All
Introduction
"The Greatest Monster of Them All" was originally broadcast on 14/Feb/1961 as part of the sixth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Ernst von Croft is an has-been actor once billed as "The Greatest Monster of Them All". He gets a part in a low-budget vampire movie. He is proud of his performance, but is shocked when he sees the film and discovers that his voice has been redubbed. Fred Logan, the films writer, visits Ernst and offers his condolences. Later on a soundstage, however, he finds the bodies of the films producer Hal Ballew and the film's director Morty Lenton. The necks of each have been punctioned as if they were bitten by a vampire. On a catwalk high above the soundstage Ernst appears wearing his vampire cape. He falls from the catwalk and plunges to his death on the soundstage floor. (TV.com)
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Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Produced by:
- Joan Harrison - producer
- Norman Lloyd - associate producer
Written by:
- Robert Bloch - teleplay
- Bryce Walton - story
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Host
- William Redfield — cast: Fred Logan
- Richard Hale — cast: Ernst von Croft
- Sam Jaffe — cast: Hal Ballew
- Robert H. Harris — cast: Morty Lenton
- Meri Welles — cast: Lara Lee
- Charles S. Carlson — cast: Office Boy (as Charles Carlson)
- Baruch Lumet — cast: Man on Stairs
- Mike Taylor — cast: Movie Audience Member
- Ronnie Sorensen — cast: Movie Audience Member (as Ronnie Sorenson)
- Eve Lesley — cast: Movie Audience Member
- Joan Marcus — cast: Movie Audience Member
- Phil Adams — cast: Movie Audience Member
- Mel Blanc — cast: Dubbing Voice (uncredited)
Cinematography by:
- John L. Russell - director of photography
Edited by:
