Sybilla

Episode aired Dec 6, 1960
TV-14
30m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

484

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Alexander Scourby in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Newlywed Sybilla is extremely attentive to her husband's every need, but he's suspicious. Eventually, her acquiescence despite his coldness makes him paranoid and desperate. When he realizes... Read allNewlywed Sybilla is extremely attentive to her husband's every need, but he's suspicious. Eventually, her acquiescence despite his coldness makes him paranoid and desperate. When he realizes just how wrong he's been, will it be too late?Newlywed Sybilla is extremely attentive to her husband's every need, but he's suspicious. Eventually, her acquiescence despite his coldness makes him paranoid and desperate. When he realizes just how wrong he's been, will it be too late?

Director
- Ida Lupino
Writers
- Charlotte Armstrong
- Margaret Manners
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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

484

YOUR RATING

Director
- Ida Lupino
Writers
- Charlotte Armstrong
- Margaret Manners
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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9Hitchcoc

Touching!

Nicely done story about obsession. Sybilla is the perfect wife. She gives everything to her husband. Instead of happiness, he is filled with suspicion. What is she up to? What is her motivation? So he decides to kill her. But things aren't always what they seem. One brief comment about a mystery novel sends things awry.

9searchanddestroy-1

Very moving story

As for the previous episode, this topic and screenplay could easily have been done for another anthology Tv series, not necessarily AH PRESENTS show. Of course you have a twist ending but no criminal element at all. Yes, both epsiodes look like the same. very sensitive and poignant directing from the great Ida Lupino.

9cpotato1010

An all-female written and directed episode!

Unusual for the day.

Plus two excellent performance by the principle actors, Alexander Scourby and Barbara Bel Geddes.

I know Barbara Bel Geddes mostly from Dallas, as "Miss Ellie". I know the name Alexander Scourby, but at the moment I do not remember where from. But it is something I liked.

Here, it starts kind of like a cat and mouse tale. Except the "cat" is all in his mind.

Keeping with the animal motif, it turns out he "out-foxed" himself.

It is like the Joni Mitchell song refrain, "you don't know what you've got until it's gone". A truly sad ending.

btw, listen for some of his "diary dialog" as he settles into the marriage. Very amusing.

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[afterword]
Self - Host: I shall return in a moment. But first, we have that feature of television that all viewers long for - the end of a commercial. That moment will come in just 60 seconds.
[commercial]
Self - Host: That concludes our potpourri for this evening. Next week, we shall continue our study of that age-old riddle -- Did they jump or were they pushed? Until then, good night.