Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Sorceror’s Apprentice (1962)

USA, 1962
30m
35mm film, black and white, 4:3
mono, English
Series: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965) – series 7, episode 39

An American fantasy television episode directed by Josef Leytes. The show’s sponsor were unhappy when they saw the finished episode and it wasn’t broadcast until the programme went into syndication.

Plot Summary

Magician The Great Sadini takes in an unconscious young man who wakes believing that he is dead and that Sadini and his wife are the Devil and an angel.

Credits

* = uncredited

Crew
Directed by: Josef Leytes
© MCMLXI [1961] by Shamley Productions, Inc. An Alfred Hitchcock production
Produced by: Joan Harrison
Associate Producer: Norman Lloyd
Teleplay by: Robert Bloch from his story
Assistant Director: Edward K. Dodds
Director of Photography: John L. Russell
Editorial Dept. Head: David J. O’Connell
Film Editor: Edward W. Williams
Music Supervisor: Joseph E. Romero
Sound: JohnW. Rixey
Costume Supervisor: Vincent Dee
Makeup: Jack Barron
Hair Stylist: Florence Bush
Art Director: Martin Obzina
Set Decorators: John McCarthy, James S. Redd

Cast
Diana Dors (Irene)
Brandon De Wilde (Hugo)
David J. Stewart (Sadini)
Larry Kert (George)
Alfred Hitchcock [host] *

Extracts included in
Alfred Hitchcock: Master of Suspense (2013)