Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Night the World Ended
(Redirected from The Night the World Ended)
Introduction
"The Night the World Ended" was originally broadcast on 28/Apr/1957 as part of the second season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Halloran plays a practical joke on a down-and-out man named Johnny. He shows him a fake newspaper with the headline "World to End Tonight --- 11:45 P.M." Johnny believes the headline and decides to live it up. He breaks into a store and shoots a security guard. A few minutes before 11:45, he sees the real headline and realizes that he has been tricked. An enraged Johnny returns to the bar where Halloran is and shoots him dead. (TV.com)
DVD Releases
The following official DVD releases contain this episode:
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Two - Universal (UK, 2007) Amazon (UK) PAL 1.33:1 |
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Two - Universal (USA, 2006) Amazon (USA) NTSC 1.33:1 |
Cast and Crew
Directed by:
- Jus Addiss (as Justus Addiss)
Produced by:
- Joan Harrison - associate producer
Written by:
- Bernard C. Schoenfeld - teleplay
- Fredric Brown - story
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Host
- Russell Collins — cast: Johnny
- Harold J. Stone — cast: Mr. Halloran
- Edith Barrett — cast: Felicia Green
- Robert Ross — cast: Ned
- Bart Burns — cast: Nick the Bartender
- Joseph Marr — cast: Security Guard (as Joe Marr)
- Ned Wever — cast: Joe
- Clark Howat — cast: Jim, a Bar Patron
- Robert Ellis — cast: Reporter
- Henry Corden — cast: Boarder
- Harry Shearer — cast: Street Kid
- Billy Miller — cast: Street Kid
- Charles Herbert — cast: Street Kid
- Michael Ross — cast: Timothy (as Mike Ross)
- Paul Brinegar — cast: Mr. Stern
Cinematography by:
- Joseph LaShelle - director of photography (as Joseph La Shelle)
Edited by:
