Alfred Hitchcock Presents An Unlocked Window

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• A serial killer is in the area where some private nurses have locked themselves in a large house, except for one basement window.

• The tertiary in a series of murders over the previous two weeks is reported on boob tube and local law reveal at that place's a psychotic madman who preys simply on live-in nurses on the loose. One night and stormy dark, Nurse Stella Crosson (Dana Wynter) and Nurse Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) are tending to their client, a human being with a centre status who resides in a creepy old mansion just outside of boondocks and needs constant attending. A telephone call from the murderer informs the women that he knows they're lonely and intends to pay them a visit before the night is over. Checking to brand sure all the doors and windows are locked, Stella all of a sudden realizes that she overlooked a basement window - a mistake that might prove all too costly.

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• A immature female person visiting nurse named Frieda (Cathie Merchant) is seen leaving the habitation of ane of her clients one night. He offers to walk her to her car, but she insists she volition be fine. But as she walks down the dark, deserted street, she is stalked past a big male figure in a dark raincoat and hat. The man follows her until she is isolated, and and then he confronts her, calling her past name. Startled, she looks up at him and he says "You're such a pretty nurse." So he strangles her to expiry.

  Some time later, two home-care nurses are watching television in a large, isolated business firm. Stella (Dana Wynter) and Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) are watching a news study on the serial killer; Frieda'southward body has just been discovered in a park. Stella is a younger, shapely adult female, while Betty is middle-aged, matronly adult female. Stella and Betty seem to exist unfamiliar with 1 another, with the nurses assigned to the firm irresolute every and then often. Their patient, a immature man named Glendon Baker (John Kerr), has an unnamed affliction that requires him to sleep in an oxygen tent. Afterwards the broadcast, the two nurses talk nervously about the murders, spooked past the fact that the serial killer is not merely believed to be in the firsthand vicinity, merely that he besides targets home-care nurses such as themselves. Stella begins to become around the house and make certain all of the doors and windows are locked. Along the way she encounters the housekeeper, Maude (Louise Latham), and a handyman named Sam (E.J. André), who are in the kitchen. Betty appears and tells Stella that Mr. Bakery's oxygen tank is running low, chiding her for being forgetful. Sam must go into the village for more oxygen, requiring him to leave the three women lone with the incapacitated Mr. Baker.

  Stella goes into the basement and checks the windows down there; several of the low windows are unlocked and flapping, and one of them in particular is located right next to a ladder, as if someone could have used it to gain entry to the house. Before Stella tin can lock information technology, she sees a mouse and runs screaming from the basement, leaving the window unfastened. Maude is similarly excited by the incident, and begins to accept sips of whiskey from a canteen to calm her nerves.

  Maude begins to talk excitedly nearly various murders she's heard of, and she reacts ominously to the approaching storm, which covers the house in a torrential downpour. Maude comments that with all of the rain, the dirt road turns to mud, and Sam may not be able to go back up to the firm, adding to their feeling of isolation.

  Ane of the doctors from Stella'southward dispensary calls to check on the house, and he reveals that at that place has been another victim found strangled in the area. Stella assures him that they are secure in the business firm, and Betty asks her once again if she has locked all of the windows. Stella seems to almost remember the unlocked window in the basement, only she says that yes, she's locked everything. Meanwhile, the true cat that Maude put in the basement to catch the roaming mouse has escaped through the open up window.

  Mr. Baker awakens and seems very lively for someone who should be sick. He is immature and wealthy and has purchased the house in the terminal year. Stella is surprised when he asks her to marry him; he says he feels very at ease with her and, conversely, feels uneasy when Nurse Ames is around. Stella doesn't say whether she will or won't ally Mr. Bakery, although she does say she would never alive in the spooky house. Bakery then goes back under the oxygen tent to sleep some more.

  Meanwhile, Maude is still drinking herself silly in the kitchen and she hears a human'southward insane laughter. The voice tells her "Y'all have such a pretty neck!" Maude stalks through the house with a board looking for the psycho, whom she is certain is now in the house. She turns on then many lights that she blows a fuse, plunging the house into darkness. Betty and Stella try to subdue her, and finally she swoons from all the booze she'due south had. They put her to bed, but she disrupts them again after by screaming; she is sure she'due south heard the maniacal laughter once again. Betty suggests they give her a sedative, and soon she is unconscious.

  Subsequently Maude is asleep, Betty remarks "Now there are just two of us!" She asks Stella if she's always seen anybody that's been strangled; the phone rings and Betty answers it. Her confront becomes frightened, and it seems to exist the bedlamite on the line with her. Betty hangs up and says the human told her that he knows they are alone, and that he saw Betty when she arrived by taxi the evening before. Betty makes a telephone call and Stella hears her talking to the police force, summoning them to the house. After the phone phone call, Betty tells Stella that the police said it would have them about an hour to achieve the business firm. Stella is terrified, and together they detect the cat outside Mr. Baker's window; this forces Stella to admit that she left a window unlocked. She rushes downwardly into the basement to lock it, and is terrified when she sees a man approaching the house. She locks the window and screams, summoning Betty. When she tells Betty there is a man exterior, they endeavor the telephone, but the line is at present dead. Betty sends Stella to Mr. Baker'due south room.

  Stella is unable to rouse Mr. Bakery from sleep, and she hears Betty screaming from downstairs. Terrified, she finds Betty hiding nether the stairs, saying that the homo is in the house. Betty points to a effigy lurking backside the open front door, a man in a nighttime raincoat and hat. Stella hurls a fire poker at him, and the stiff figure falls over. Stella realizes that it is Sam, having returned from the hamlet with the oxygen, already expressionless when Stella hit him. Stella rushes over to him and hears the voice of the murderer behind her. She turns to see Nurse Ames coming toward her, speaking in a human'due south voice. Ames grabs her and tells her she is such a pretty nurse; as Stella struggles with her, she pulls off the wig and the front of the blouse comes open to reveal a homo'due south chest underneath; the murderer was in the business firm all along, dressed every bit another nurse, toying with Stella before murdering her.

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