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
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- (as Pat Hitchcock)
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- (as Wendy Winkleman)
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- TriviaAlthough 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.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
The story takes place a year after the infamous ax murder of Lizzie Borden's step-mother and father. A snoopy and thoroughly obnoxious reporter barges into the Borden house looking for a story. There, she encounter's Lizzie's sister and she tries to get Emma to give her a story. When Lizzie finds out, she chases the woman away. Following this, Lizzie finds the ax used in the murder. What's next?
Many folks think Lizzie Borden committed the double murder, though she was acquitted in court. The show is a 'what if'....what MIGHT have been the actual story. It's interesting....just not at all true.
By the way, towards the end of the show, on the left side of the screen is a portrait of the actual Lizzie Borden...who looks little like the actress playing her in the show.
- planktonrules
- Feb 16, 2021
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- Runtime30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1