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The Older Sister

Episode aired Jan 22, 1956
TV-14
30m

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Patricia Hitchcock and Joan Lorring in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

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One year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killingsOne year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killingsOne year after Lizzie Borden's parents were brutally murdered, reporter Nell Cutts tries to interview Lizzie and her younger sister Emma about the killings

Director
- Robert Stevens
Writers
- Robert C. Dennis
- Lillian de la Torre
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6.5/10

1.2K

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Director
- Robert Stevens
Writers
- Robert C. Dennis
- Lillian de la Torre
Stars

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Alfred Hitchcock

Self - Host

Joan Lorring

Emma Borden

Carmen Mathews

Lizzie Borden

Polly Rowles

Nell Cutts

Patricia Hitchcock

Margaret
(as Pat Hitchcock)

Wendy Winkelman

Little Child
(as Wendy Winkleman)

Kay Stewart

Grace

Orangey

Cat
(uncredited)

Director
- Robert Stevens
Writers
- Robert C. Dennis
- Lillian de la Torre
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Although she played the titular older sister Emma Borden (who was nine years Lizzie's senior), Joan Lorring was fifteen years younger than Carmen Mathews (Lizzie) in real life.

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[first lines]
Alfred Hitchcock - Host: [holding an ax] This is an axe. I say this for the information of those of you whose television tubes may have burnt out. I wish to reach the widest possible audience. Tonight we have a story based on one of our most celebrated murder cases. One that rocked Fall River, Massachusetts, and the entire country late in the last century. The crime was and still is a shocking one. But since it actually happened and is a matter of record, we felt it unwise to pretty up the details to make them palatable for the squeamish. Tonight's theme song will be that familiar little ditty everybody knows. "Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks / And when she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one." I venture that by this time you can see we are not presenting a romantic comedy tonight. However, we shall not re-enact the crime. We had intended to but casting difficulties interfered. Oh, we had no trouble casting the mother and father, but we kept losing them in rehearsals. So, instead, we shall show you a slightly different interpretation of the Lizzie Borden story. It begins just one year from the time of the murder.