Alfred Hitchcock Presents - A Woman's Help
Introduction
"A Woman's Help" was originally broadcast on 28/Mar/1961 as part of the sixth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Arnold Bourdon has a domineering wife named Elizabeth. When Elizabeth takes ill, she hires a lovely nurse named Joan. Arnold grows close to Joan, but she refuses to continue the affair as long as Arnold is married. The two plot to give Elizabeth a fatal doses of medication. Unfortunately, Elizabeth sees Joan kissing Arnold and fires her. Later Elizabeth hires another nurse. This one is an old woman in her sixties. Arnold asks the new nurse about Liz's medicine. The new nurse tells him that she will give her more medicine that the doctor recommended. Arnold, knowing that the dose will prove fatal, thanks the nurse and in his thanks reveals that she is his mother. (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
- Geraldine Fitzgerald — cast: Elizabeth Burton
- Scott McKay — cast: Arnold Burton
- Antoinette Bower — cast: Miss Greco
- Lillian O'Malley — cast: Last Nurse
- Leon Lontoc — cast: Chester (as Leon Lontok)
Cinematography by:
- John F. Warren - director of photography
Edited by:
