Alfred Hitchcock Hour How To Get Rid Of Your Wife

Gerald Swinney (Bob Newhart) pays a visit to see Rosie Feather (Joyce Jameson) at the theatre where she works as a caricatural dancer. The phase doorman recognises Swinney from the newspaper headlines he is reading before showing him into Rosie'south dressing room. Swinney gives her a bunch of carnations and apologises for the publicity she attracted in his case but she shows sympathy for him for what he has been through.
In flashback we see the final days of Swinney's marriage to his dominating and nagging wife Edith (Jane Withers) where she tells him off for smoking in the house and says she could have managed without him existence in her life. He tells her that he wants a divorce merely she flatly (and loudly) refuses him. Later Gerald asks where his fishing equipment has gone and Edith tells him she got rid of it. He responds that he will just accept to become rid of her! In a deliberate attempt to expose his wife'south unreasonable bad behaviour towards him Gerald stays out at a bar one night until endmost time and then walks home with his neighbour, knowing that Edith will lock him out in defiance. The plan works and the neighbours see just exactly what kind of a person Edith is.
At breakfast Gerald makes a mess in the kitchen deliberately to annoy his wife, who again complains. He leaves an empty packet of weed killer lying around knowing she will see it to constitute paranoia into her aroused caput. She summons him to the kitchen and Gerald appears in the middle of shaving and property a razor in his hand, further calculation to her fear. Edith phones her friend Laura (Mary Scott) who tells her she is being ridiculous. Gerald is and so seen excavation what appears to be a grave in his back garden but when questioned on it he claims information technology is for a fish pond.
Edith invites her friends Laura and Henry over to the house and tells them what has been going on with Gerald. Laura is concerned that Edith is exaggerating and suggests she see a doctor. The two couples accept dinner when a delivery man brings a large item to the business firm for Gerald's alleged pond. Edith grows more and more paranoid and tries to convince her friends that Gerald is out to impale her. When Laura and Henry get out suddenly Edith orders Gerald out of the house. Gerald goes to his chamber and looks at, well, THIS. And yes, Edith discovers it after Gerald packs his bags and vacates the business firm.
Edith goes straight to Rosie and confronts her over the picture and tells her that the affair must stop but Rosie denies any such thing is going on. Meanwhile Gerald buys himself a couple of rats from the pet shop. Edith counters this purchase purchasing some rat poison. It'south all then kittenish. Gerald writes an open letter "to whom it may concern" which he reads to Edith stating his reasoning for leaving her. That evening Edith makes the hot chocolate, calculation poison to Gerald'south. The next morning Edith finds Gerald in bed and thinks he is expressionless, and with the letter he had written the dark earlier she makes it await like it was suicide.
The law are chosen and find Gerald alive and well; Edith faints. The case goes to trial and Edith is accused of trying to impale Gerald. All of her friends turn against her in support of Gerald. Edith is found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to five years in prison house. Gerald is free and proposes a dinner date with Rosie, which she gladly accepts. But, his plans are changed for him after he leaves her dressing room....

TRIVIA
•Mr. & Mrs. Swinney had lived together for 15 years.
•Mr. & Mrs. Swinney live at number 1326. But later on when we meet the newspaper commodity it states Edith'south address to exist 206 Locust Artery.
•During the breakfast scene where Gerald tells Edith the box of weed killer is empty and they demand more, expect at the meridian-right of the screen and you tin encounter the shadow of the microphone reflected on the wall/ceiling.
•Gerald tells Edith that the hole he is digging in the garden is going to be a fish pond. When she questions him, he explains it a bit better. "It'southward going to be a pond.... for fish." Brilliant comedy.
•The 2 rats, one of which is called Rolio, costs $3.20. Also later when Edith discovers the rats in her kitchen cupboard they are non the same rats equally Gerald buys from the store. Y'all can tell this quite easily.
•Who could blame Gerald for wanting a divorce. Tin can yous imagine being married to Edith?!
•The signed photo of Rosie ending upwardly in Gerald's chamber is explained past it being left inside a library book which Gerald took out from the library.

HITCH'S PROLOGUE (1 min 06 secs):
[Hitch is continuing past a life size statue of a horse] "Contrary to appearances we are not converting our evidence into a middle eastern western. This is a lovely gift that just arrived and I'm having workmen tear out a wall so that I tin can get it into the house. What is especially touching is that the souvenir came from a person I had non regarded as a friend. A social climber who is always trying to wrangle an invitation to my dwelling house. I'one thousand quite pleased however now that I have a wooden horse I may even have up h2o polo. From this innocent hobby horse we plough to a hobby of some other kind. Tonight's programme is dedicated to the 'do-it-yourselfer' and is called 'How To Get Rid Of Your Married woman'. It concerns 1 Gerald Swinney, a gentlemen seemingly besides meek for the task ahead, only nosotros shall meet, we shall see. Every bit a special characteristic tonight nosotros are delaying the start of the story by ane minute. Time for y'all to assemble upward a pencil and paper. After all, some of you may wish to take notes."

HITCH'S EPILOGUE (26 secs):
"I however have my wife but you will detect I take gotten rid of my horse. I wouldn't have cared if it were a talking horse but I discovered this one was ticking. I promptly gave information technology away. I felt there were others who deserved it more than I. My sponsor, for i. Later all the very foundation of commercial television is the trojan equus caballus principal as witness the following."

SPOILERS

Gerald'southward plan to rid his horrible married woman from his life succeeds when he convinces others that it was she who tried to kill him. Gerald takes the opportunity to endeavour a date with Rosie simply subsequently he leaves her dressing room he bumps into the adult female who runs the pet shop. When Gerald bought the rats from her he gave a simulated name (Mr. Jones) - and neglected to mention at the trial that he planted the rats in this house to brand his married woman paranoid. The pet store woman recognises Gerald as 'Mr. Jones' and proposes a dinner date with him in commutation for her silence. Gerald'southward plan of winning over Rosie is scuppered and at present he is lumbered with a second potential wife he didn't want!

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