Tuesday, December 15, 2009

FOUR O'CLOCK (for Monday's class, 21 December 2009) Email to Stella Chen BEFORE Monday's class.

FOUR O'CLOCK
AFTER THE SUCCESS of his half-hour suspense series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hollywood director Alfred Hitchcock started an hour series, titled Suspicion (also the name of his 1941 movie). The first show in this series (1958) was directed by Hitchcock himself, and written by Cornell Woolwich, who also wrote the novel on which Hitchcock's 1953 film, Rear Window, was based. The show is called "Four O'Clock" and stars Nancy Wilson and E. G. Marshall (the doctor in the film, The Left Hand of God). View the show in 6 parts (6/6): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. It's also available on youtube in eight shorter segments. If you choose not to use these links (above), do a search (<Suspicion Four O'Clock>). Don't confuse two different uploads (6/6, 8/8) or there'll be an overlap in the video. Make sure, for example, that segment 2 says 2/6 instead of 2/8! Then answer the following questions by Monday.

    1. How long does the customer say it been raining?
    2. What did the customers come for?
    3. When does the customer say it should have been ready?
    4. When does Paul (the man character) tell the customers to come back?
    5. Does Paul overcharge for his work?
    6. What time does Paul set the clock timer for?
    7. What will there be instead of the house after the bomb explodes?
    8. According to Paul, when did it rain?
    9. What time does he say should be right to set the timer?
    10. What is Paul's wife, Fran, cooking?
    11. What does she ask if Paul wants?
    12. What cheese is in the refrigerator?
    13. When does Fran say she plans to eat the cheese?
    14. In this scene, how many beers are in the refrigerator?
    15. How many beers does Paul say someone drank?
    16. When is Fran usually at the market?
    17. What kind of a guy does Paul tell Fran that he is?
    18. According to Fran, what makes the noise on the stove?
    19. How many beers are in the refrigerator the next time we see it?
    20. What does Fran say is in the living room?
    21. When will dinner be ready?
    22. What does Paul say is full?
    23. Who is calm, casual?
    24. What kind of character does Paul say he is?
    25. What kind of character does Fran say he is?
    26. What do the burglars want to do upstairs?
    27. Who do the burglars say is out cold?
    28. What does Paul say to the burglars before they gag him?
    29. What animal does one of the burglars call Paul?
    30. In what division of the military did one of the burglars serve?
    31. What does he say is going to hold?
    32. What did one of the burglars say he forgot to do?
    33. What does Paul do that makes the burglars laugh?
    34. How, according to the burglars, does Paul take things?
    35. How many dollars do they take from him?
    36. What kind of emotions do the burglars say Paul has?
    37. In one word, how do the burglars describe the home?
    38. What does Paul say to himself he has to do before Fran comes?
    39. When does Paul say Fran will be home?
    40. What won't Fran notice?
    41. What will Fran see open?
    42. What time is it when we see the clock soon after the burglars leave?
    43. Who does Paul say is too old for Fran?
    44. According to Paul, if she settled down a second what would Fran be able to do?
    45. What does Paul imagine that Fran and the man who rings the doorbell is doing?
    46. Who does this man turn out to be?
    47. How much money does Fran say is missing?
    48. What kind of package is missing? C.O.D.
    49. Besides the money and the package, what is also missing?
    50. Besides burglars, whom does Fran think may have taken the watch?
    51. Whom does she phone?
    52. What does Fran offer the man in the kitchen?
    53. How long has it been since the man has been out of prison?
    54. What appliance does Fran say once made a noise?
    55. Where does the man say he once heard a similar (humming) noise?
    56. What kind of past does the man have?
    57. What does Fran say that Paul can help the man find?
    58. How do people's eyes look when they find out about the man's past (two adjectives)?
    59. What time is it when we see the clock now?
    60. What does Fran say she will get before she leaves the house?
    61. What does Fran say she will look for in the basement?
    62. In whose car does the couple (Fran and the man) leave?
    63. Who knocks on the door after they leave?
    64. Who does Paul say must have locked the basement door?
    65. What does he say is going too fast?
    66. How many minutes does he say remains on the timer?
    67. What is the boy's name near the window?
    68. What does the boy say that "the funny man" is making?
    69. How many minutes are now left on the timer?
    70. What does Paul say will disintegrate?
    71. How high will he blow up?
    72. In one word, what does Paul say the explosion will be?
    73. What does Paul say he feels on his skin?
    74. What are Paul's final two words before the clock strikes 4?
    75. What does Fran say she blew in the morning?
    76. What does Paul say he doesn't mind anymore?


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