Late Nights with Hitchcock – Episode 4: The Glass Eye
The Full Moon appears tonight and Lydia and Mark are here to discuss an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Glass Eye!
“Captivated by the actor’s physical beauty, an ageing spinster pulls up stakes to follow a ventriloquist and his dummy from performance to performance; finally, the man consents to a much-wanted meeting.”
Cast
Jessica Tandy Julia Lester
Tom Conway Max Collodi
Billy Barty George
Rosemary Harris Dorothy Whitely
William Shatner Jim Whitely
Pat Hitchcock Saleslady
The Glass Eye originally aired on October 6th, 1957 ( on that night the moon was in a Waxing Gibbous phase)
“When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel’s employees deny she and her mother were ever there.”