Due before class on Thursday, 22 October 2009

LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER

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"Lamb to the Slaughter" is one of the most celebrated shows from the famed Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series. Though Hitchcock approved all the scripts he directed only a few of the shows himself, including this one.
    Telecast in 1958, it starred Barbara  Bel  Geddes as Mary Maloney, who murders her husband. Bel Geddes would co-star  in Alfred Hitchcock's film masterpiece, Vertigo, the same year.
    The title is an ironic biblical reference to the sacrificial lamb; only here the killing is not a sacrifice but a murder.
    Typically, Hitchcock introduces the show, as he did every week, after the musical introduction based on Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette," which became identified with both the show and Hitchcock (composer John Addison quotes the tune during Hitchcock's cameo in the film, Torn Curtain (1966).
    Also typical is Hitchcock's sour reference to the show's sponsor, a running gag of the show. Finally, since the moral code of the time required that murderers be punished for their crimes on television and in movies, Hitchock had to explain at the end of each show that the murderer was caught and punished, even though this was not seen in the show itself.
    In addition to your Pet Peeve assignment, view this three-part video on youtube and answer the following questions before class on Thursday, 22 October 2009.

    1. Why did the policeman give Alfred Hitchcock a ticket?
    2. What lane was Hitchcock in when he got the ticket?
    3. What was the sale called in the store?
    4. What does the store want the viewer to address their attention to?
    5. What case does Mary Malone think the police are badgering her husband, Patrick, about?
    6. In what condition (state of mind) does Mary hate to see Patrick (two adjectives)?
    7. What does Mary want Patrick to take off?
    8. What does she want Patrick to do after he sits down?
    9. What does Mary say Patrick doesn't have to do if he doesn't want to?
    10. What excuse does Mary plan to tell Molly about her husband in order to excuse him from dinner?
    11. What is there plenty of in the freezer?
    12. What will take just a little longer to cook?
    13. What does Mary say she'll buy at the corner?
    14. What does Mary tell Patrick was dangled over her tummy?
    15. What will their child be?
    16. How many times has Mrs. Keating been wrong?
    17. Where is the freezer located?
    18. What does Patrick want from Mary?
    19. Does Patrick offer Mary a lot of money?
    20. What does Mary say Patrick must have?
    21. What does Mary say Molly is?
    22. When does Mary say Molly may see her and Patrick?
    23. Whom does Mary ask the operator to connect her with?
    24. What was the only thing Mary tells the policeman, Jack, she touched?
    25. How many minutes ago does she say she went out?
    26. Does Molly usually shop late?

    27. Where does Molly live?
    28. What does Mary tell the police is cooking in the kitchen?
    29. Why does the coroner say Patrick was not hit with a sharp object?
    30. Which object does the coroner compare the murder weapon to?
    31. What does Jack ask about the glass?
    32. What did Patrick always have when he came home from work?
    33. What did Patrick usually have with his drinks (two nouns)?
    34. What did Patrick take "straight" the evening of his death?
    35. What, according to Mary, is the fist thing Patrick did when he came into the door?
    36. What did Patrick pour himself when he arrived home (adjective and noun)?
    37. What does Jack want to find?
    38. What does Jack want Mike to comb every inch of?
    39. Does Jack believe the murder was premeditated?
    40. What time does Jack say it is when asked by the coroner?
    41. Why does Jack say Mary doesn't have to worry?
    42. What does Jack say is fishy?
    43. What was Patrick carrying?
    44. What does Mary promise about the meat?
    45. How many pounds does the cop say the murder weapon weigh?
    46. Where does Jack believe the murder weapon is?
    47. What does Jack believe might be right under their noses?
    48. According to Hitchcock, why was Mary captured?
    49. What did her second husband forget to do?
    50. What was as soft as jelly?
    51. What does the sponsor want to do for hs product?
    52. What does Hitchock say he can't risk?