The Motive

Episode aired Jan 26, 1958
TV-14
30m

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7.6/10

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Skip Homeier, Carmen Phillips, and William Redfield in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A man who has a theory that murders committed without a motive are very rarely solved is then coaxed by his friend into killing someone.A man who has a theory that murders committed without a motive are very rarely solved is then coaxed by his friend into killing someone.A man who has a theory that murders committed without a motive are very rarely solved is then coaxed by his friend into killing someone.

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IMDb RATING

7.6/10

752

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Trivia
When Tommy Greer is walking in Chicago, he goes by the original house where the Cleaver's (Leave It to Beaver (1957)) first lived before their move.

Goofs
Tommy called Stanton's number and spoke to the maid who told him that Stanton would be home the next evening to watch the fights. Before hanging up and ending the call, Tommy repeated "Tomorrow". The next scene was him being greeted by Stanton as he let him in his house, with Stanton saying, "You're the young man who called this afternoon" when he should've said, "You're the young man who called yesterday" since Tommy wasn't supposed to be there until the day after he called.

Quotes
[introduction]
Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is sitting in a chair with his coat off sewing on a button on the coat] Good evening. I always sew on my own buttons. It's out of sentiment. You see, an ancestor of mine was the inventor of the buttonhole. It happened during a duel, although his opponent never knew it was a duel. Unfortunately, this resulted in the false notion that the buttonhole should be in the back of the coat. Actually, the invention of the buttonhole brought a great sigh of relief from the whole world. You see, the button had been invented long before, and for over 100 years, the world hadn't known what to do with it.