Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Last Escape
Introduction
"The Last Escape" was originally broadcast on 31/Jan/1961 as part of the sixth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Joe Ferlini is an escape artist who decides to perform a dangerous escape in order to be famous. His wife Wanda who is seeing another man, however, has other plans. Joe plans to be handcuffed, locked in a truck, and lowered into a river. Wanda, however, replaces Joe's key to the handcuffs with a fake key. Joe drowns. At the funeral, a policeman insists that the coffin be open. When it is opened, everyone is shocked to discover that it is empty. Wanda goes insane and is locked up in an asylum. Later Joe's manager reveals that he and Joe arranged to have his body removed if he were to die while performing the river escape. Joe wanted to be known as the greatest escape artist of all time. (TV.com)
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Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Produced by:
- Joan Harrison - producer
- Norman Lloyd - associate producer
Written by:
- Henry Slesar - screenplay
- Henry Slesar - story
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Host
- Keenan Wynn — cast: Joe Ferlini
- Jan Sterling — cast: Wanda Ferlini
- Dennis Patrick — cast: Harry
- John Craven — cast: Tommy
- Jack Livesey — cast: Psychiatrist
- Ronnie Rondell Jr. — cast: Motorboat Pilot (as Ronnie R. Rondell)
- Charles Meredith — cast: Reverend
- Robert Carson — cast: Police Chief
- Claude Stroud — cast: Investigator
Cinematography by:
- John F. Warren - director of photography
Edited by:
