The Unforgiving Minute
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
H. L. Mencken

Monday, July 16, 2007

Classic TV

I watched a lot of reruns on Nick-at-Nite as a kid, especially Get Smart, Dragnet and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (I know, I was a weird little kid).

My all-time favorite Hitchcock episode was “Man from the South,” based on a short story by Roald Dahl and starring Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre, who creeped the hell out of me when I was little. Actually, he STILL creeps the hell out of me. I don’t know how the guy managed to be so simultaneously wimpy and menacing.

Anyways, one of those late-night Perpetual-Wiki-Loops led me to the full text of Dahl’s original story and the whole Hitchcock episode on YouTube. Here it is, in three parts:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

posted by TD at 6:34 pm  

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