Alcoa Premiere: "The Jail"; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Jar," "The Life Work of Juan Diaz

June 8, 2014 - 7:00 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Free admission!

Alcoa Premiere: "The Jail"

ABC, 2/6/62

Directed by Norman Lloyd.

Justice in the not-so-distance future seems like a cruel joke to John Gavin’s disbelieving business man when he’s tried and wrongly convicted of a crime by a bank of computers. But his nightmare doesn’t really begin until he hears the sentence...

Screenwriter: Ray Bradbury. Cast: John Gavin, Bettye Ackerman, James Barton.

16mm, b/w, 60 min.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Jar"

CBS, 2/14/64

Directed by Norman Lloyd.

Enthralled by its mysterious contents, farmer Charlie Hill buys a strange jar from a carnival sideshow to impress his family and friends back home. The object soon casts its hallucinatory spell over the entire town until some want to make it their own.

Screenwriter: James Bridges. Cast: Pat Buttram, Collin Wilcox Paxton, William Marshall.

16mm, b/w, 48 min.

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Life Work of Juan Diaz"

NBC, 10/16/64

Directed by Norman Lloyd.

After a dishonest gravedigger exhumes the body of a penniless man, his widow steals his mummified corpses and puts him back to work providing for his family.

Screenwriter: Ray Bradbury. Cast: Alejandro Rey, Frank Silvera, Pina Pellicer.

16mm, b/w, 48 min.

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Stages: Norman Lloyd and American Television

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Alcoa Premiere: "The Jail"; The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Jar," "The Life Work of Juan Diaz

Alcoa Premiere: "The Jail"

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Jar"

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Life Work of Juan Diaz"

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