An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain.An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain.An obsessed young woman waits decades for her husband's body to emerge from the ice, after he fell from a mountain.
- Frederic Blauer
- (as Harald O. Dyrenforth)
- Man Arguing at Telescope
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis episode takes place from September to December 1907 and on July 21, 1947.
- GoofsAs one reviewer pointed out, a body embedded in a glacier for forty years would not emerge pristine and unblemished. Moving ice acts like a mincing machine. Even today, bits of bodies are still surfacing at the bottom of mountain slopes.
- Quotes
[introduction, Hitchcock is on a mountain with a rope]
Alfred Hitchcock - Host: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I thought I would cut this rope since it seems to be obstructing my path. I can't seem to find my partner. He was here a moment ago then let out a cry and disappeared.
[the rope breaks and Hitchcock watches something fall to the ground]
Alfred Hitchcock - Host: My, my. I seem to have made a faux pas. My friend was on the other end of that rope. Rotten luck. He was also my business partner, but the show must go on. Tonight, we are presenting a chilly little tale entitled "The Crystal Trench". It follows at a respectful distance.
- SoundtracksFuneral March of a Marionette
Written by Charles Gounod
The story begins in Switzerland, near a famous peak called the Schwarzhorn. It seems that a young and impetuous Brit insisted on climbing it and a guide took him and friend on this ill-advised ascent...and the man died. Oddly, instead of them telling the widow, the asked another Brit staying at the hotel if he could tell her. She was naturally heartbroken and he soon became smitten with her.
Later, the woman took this man with her to see a noted geologist or something along those likes (Macnee) and he tells her that the body lost on the glacier would be accessible on an exact day and time of day forty years in the future based on his calculations...and, amazingly, this turned out to be true and then the twist occurs. The twist is good, the notion a person could make such an accurate prediction is ridiculous.
Okay, so you have a woman and her male friend waste forty years of their lives AND they return to the peak forty years later just as the body would become retrievable....doesn't this all sound rather absurd? And, absurd is what I'd call this episode. A clear miss that easily could have been better. Heck, had Macnee played a psychic or Nostradamus, it would have made more sense than this script.
- planktonrules
- Apr 5, 2021
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1