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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 1x16

You Got to Have Luck

Sam Cobbett escapes from prison and breaks into a farm house. He intimidates a woman into helping him until the heat is off. The woman, however, acts very strange. Later, he realizes much too late that the woman’s odd behavior is due to her being deaf. It is her inability to hear that eventually gives him away to the police.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 1 Episode 16
Jan. 15, 1956