Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Door Without a Key
Introduction
"The Door Without a Key" was originally broadcast on 16/Jan/1962 as part of the seventh season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Synopsis
Captain Shaw works the night shift at a police station when he is approached by an old man who is suffering from amnesia. A lost boy then appears. Shaw tries to send the man to a hospital and the boy to hom. Both, however, refuse to go. Eventually more people arrive. Each lost in some way or another. Eventually Shaw manages to clear out everyone, but the boy and the old man. The boy reveals that his father left him at the police station so that he would be sent to a home. When he hears this, the old man's memory returns. He is wealthy and has lost his family. He lives all alone in an enormous mansion. Shaw urges the old man to adopt the boy that that both of them can have a family. (TV.com)
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Cast and Crew
Directed by:
Produced by:
- Joan Harrison - producer
- Norman Lloyd - associate producer
Written by:
- Norman Daniels - story
- Irving Elman - teleplay
Starring:
- Alfred Hitchcock — cast: Host
- Claude Rains — cast: Leonard Eldridge
- John Larch — cast: Sgt. Shaw
- Connie Gilchrist — cast: Maggie Vanderman
- David Fresco — cast: Dave
- Sam Gilman — cast: The Squad Car Officer
- Andy Romano — cast: The Patrolman
- Jimmy Hawkins — cast: Dewey Sims
- Jeff Malloy — cast: Larry Rowan (as Jeff Parker)
- Bill Mumy — cast: Mickey Hollins (as Billy Mumy)
- Robert Carson — cast: Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Susan Hart — cast: Marti Thomas (uncredited)
Cinematography by:
- Dale Deverman - director of photography
Edited by:
