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Strangers on a Train A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.

Rebecca is a 1940 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Plot In Monte Carlo, Max de Winter stops to speak to Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper only after recognizing her companion , the girl he had encountered earlier. Maxim de Winter stands at a cliff edge, seemingly contemplating suicide. A young woman shouts at him to stop him in his tracks, but he curtly asks her to walk on. Later, at Monte Carlo on the French Riviera, the same young woman is staying with her pompous old traveling companion, Mrs. Van Hopper. She again encounters the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter, looking much more debonair. They are attracted to each other, and although Van Hopper tells her he is still tormented by thoughts of his dead wife, Rebecca, who we are told drowned in the sea near Manderley, she soon becomes the second Mrs. de Winter.

"Lifeboat". Sponsored by: Anacin, RCA, Chesterfield. A well-done radio adaptation of the superb movie. Sheldon Leonard does fine in the role made famous by William Bendix. Guest screen director Alfred Hitchcock introduces the story and speaks with the stars after the drama. July 8th, 1943 Constance Porter is a foreign correspondent during WWII and was a late passenger on the freighter the SS Argo that was torpedoed by a nazi submarine. She finds herself alone on a lifeboat somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic then she rescues John Kovak who worked in the engine room from the water. Constance informs him that their ship had sunk the U-boat before going down. By the second day at sea there are nine survivors on the lifeboat and then they find in the water a survivor from the German U-boat. Constance is the only person to speak German and becomes his interpreter. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Charles Oakley lives alone in a rooming house. One day, his landlady tells him that two men came looking for him; he sees the two men waiting on the street in front of his room and he decides to leave town. Charlotte (Charlie) Newton is a bored teen-age girl living in the idyllic town of Santa Rosa, California. She receives wonderful news: Her mother's younger brother (her eponym), Charles Oakley, is arriving for a visit. Her uncle arrives and at first everyone is delighted with his visit, especially young Charlie. Uncle Charlie brings everyone presents. He gives his niece an emerald ring which has someone else's initials engraved inside. Charlie's father Joseph Newton works at a bank and Uncle Charlie tells him he wants to open an account and deposit $40,000 ($0.6 million today) at his bank. Two men appear at the Newton home posing as interviewers working on a national survey. Uncle Charlie is upset and berates his sister for opening up her home to strangers. One of the men takes a photo of Uncle Charlie, who demands the roll of film, because "no one takes my photograph." The younger interviewer, Jack Graham, asks young Charlie out, and she guesses that he is really a detective. He explains that her uncle is one of two suspects who may be the "Merry Widow Murderer". Charlie refuses to believe it at first, but then observes Uncle Charlie acting strangely, primarily with a news clipping from her father's newspaper that describes a murder. The initials engraved inside the ring he gave her match those of one of the murdered women, and during a family dinner he reveals his hatred of rich widows.

Foreign Correspondent Plot In mid-August 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, the editor of the New York Morning Globe, Mr. Powers (Harry Davenport), is concerned about the crisis in Europe, the growing power of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents to get answers about whether war will ensue. After searching for a good, tough crime reporter for a fresh viewpoint, he appoints Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) as a foreign correspondent, under the pen name Huntley Haverstock.Johnny sails for England and arrives in London. His first assignment is to interview Stephen Fisher (Herbert Marshall), the leader of the Universal Peace Party, at an event held by Fisher in honor of a Dutch diplomat named Van Meer (Albert Bassermann).

In 1940, CBS Radio initiated a radio series called Forecast in which pilot episodes for other potential new series could be broadcast. The station intended to use audience feedback to decide which episodes to take forward in the future, hence they were known as "audition shows". One of the early audition shows was named "Suspense" and the intention was for it to be a series of radio adaptations of Alfred Hitchcock films, hosted by the director. The show had involvement from producer Walter Wanger and Hitchcock, who had just directed Foreign Correspondent for Wanger. A deal was struck whereby Wanger provided actors Herbert Marshall and Edmund Gwenn in return for the film being plugged in the broadcast. According to Marshall, it was he and Hitchcock who decided to record an adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' popular novel, which Hitchcock had previously directed as The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). Coincidentally, Gwenn played the role of the landlord which his brother Arthur Chesney had taken in the film. According to The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion (2001) by Martin Grams Jnr & Patrik Wikstrom, Hitchcock only lent his name to the programme and was not directly involved in the actual production. Instead, Hitchcock's appearance in the programme was voiced by actor Joseph Kearns. The story ended rather abruptly and didn't reveal the true identity of the lodger, which led to some complaints from listeners who felt cheated by the episode. The audition broadcast generated a small volume of mail to CBS Radio and they eventually commissioned Suspense as a series in the summer of 1942, although without Hitchcock as the host. It became highly popular and ran for twenty years

The 39 Steps is a British thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock It concerns an everyman civilian in London, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called "The 39 Steps" from stealing British military secrets. After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland and becomes tangled up with an attractive woman while hoping to stop the spy ring and clear his name.

Spellbound A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. Director: Alfred Hitchcock By: Screen Director's Playhouse Narrated by: Joseph Cotten, Mercedes McCambridge, Alfred Hitchcock