Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Ambition
Introduction
"Ambition" was originally broadcast on 04/Jul/1961 as part of the sixth season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Rudy Cox is a district attorney who learns that the cover of his mob informant Lou Heinz has been blown. He learns that the mob plans to kill him. The mayor tells Cox to leave the case since he was once friends with a mobster named Mac Davis. Davis also tells Cox to leave the case. Later Heinz calls Cox and asks fro a guard. Cox promises one, but later learns that Heinz has been murdered. Davis and his chief hitman have alibis. Cox decides to lie in order to protect his politcal aspirations. He says that he has neither seen nor heard from Davis in the last six months. (TV.com)
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Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Produced by:
- Joan Harrison - producer
- Norman Lloyd - associate producer
Written by:
- Charles Boeckman - story
- Joel Murcott - teleplay
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Host
- Leslie Nielsen — cast: Rudy Cox
- Harold J. Stone — cast: Mac Davis
- Ann Robinson — cast: Helen Cox
- Bernard Kates — cast: Lou Heinz
- Harry Landers — cast: Ernie Stilling
- Charles Arnt — cast: Mayor
- Charles S. Carlson — cast: Cliff Woodman (as Charles Carlson)
- Howard McLeod — cast: Police Lieutenant
- Syl Lamont — cast: Hood
Cinematography by:
- Neal Beckner - director of photography
Edited by:
