Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Cream of the Jest

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After his daughter commits murder, a man finds a way to protect his family's reputation.

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An escaped mental patient encounters a woman who's afraid to be alone in her house.

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Two friends unknowingly tell a middle-aged professor about his wife's reputation.

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Siblings (Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews) plan to fake a death to collect insurance money.

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A man assumes another identity to kill his aunt but forgets one important detail.

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A man (Robert H. Harris) is thrilled when his long-lost love (Jessica Tandy) agrees to marry him.

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A murderer searches for an alibi after he kills a rival gangster in a fit of rage.

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Two sisters (Dorothy Stickney, Carmen Mathews) resort to desperate measures to keep their house.

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A man (Robert Horton) wagers everything he owns on a poker hand.

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A boy (Corey Allen) accuses his new stepmother of murdering his father (Douglas Kennedy).

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A mob boss (Robert Middleton) hires a hit man (Henry Silva) to kill his unfaithful wife.

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A publisher, intrigued by an unpublished murder mystery, visits the author.

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A mystery writer (Mary Scott) with an active imagination thinks her neighbor has killed his wife.

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Newlyweds are frightened by an odd man who reappears on their trip through California.

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A gorgeous actress asks a neighbor to help her hide the body of a murder victim.

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A political candidate (Royal Dano) is shocked when his brother (Harry Townes) murders his opponent.

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A man (Robert Horton) thinks his lover's spouse (Herbert Marshall) has poisoned him.

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A woman (Phyllis Thaxter) is suspected of trying to poison her husband (Ralph Meeker).

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A woman (Louise Platt) attempts to poison her husband's mistress.

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A drunken, unemployed actor (Claude Rains) tries to blackmail a theatrical producer (James Gregory).

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An inspector is confused when two men confess to the murder of a count.

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A third suspect (Melville Cooper) confesses to the murder of a count (Anthony Dawson).

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A detective (John Williams) must decide which of four confessed suspects murdered a count.

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A man trying to dispose of his murdered wife's body is stopped by a motorcycle cop.

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A man (John Williams) plots his wife's murder with a dream lover (Barbara Baxley).

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A reporter's prank makes a wino believe the world will end at 11:45pm that night.

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A reporter annoys a police sergeant who is hunting a killer in fogbound London.

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A precocious girl befriends a reclusive neighbor (Cedrick Hardwicke) with a mysterious past.

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A deluded woman (Judith Evelyn) believes she bears a striking resemblance to a glamorous movie star.

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A taxidermist devises a creative plan to get rid of a freeloading in-law.

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A ne'er-do-well son (Charles Davis) plots to get money from his father (Edmund Gwenn).

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A dying man (Russell Collins) is paid to buy a cemetery plot.

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Having dumped her boyfriend, a woman encounters a killer in a remote cabin.

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Two men each think the other is a dangerous lunatic who has escaped from the local asylum.