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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 5x14

Graduating Class

Laura Siddons has just become a literature teacher at an girl’s school. On evening she notices one of her students named Gloria at a racy nightclub. Later on a date with a man named Ben Proudy she sees him leave the with a man. Laura asks Gloria about this and she reveals that she is married to the man but does not want her mother to find out. Laura agrees to keep Gloria’s secret. Later, however, she discovers that Gloria’s mother has lapsed into a coma. Ben Proudy told Gloria’s mother the secret and demanded money from her to keep it secret. Later, Gloria wrongly accuses Laura of being part of the Proudy’s plot. He career is ruined.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season 5 Episode 14
Dec. 27, 1959