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ResidentSadist -> RE: Alfred Hitchcock Has Been Resurrected (2/6/2010 7:33:04 AM)
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This is a story about a funny situation and a brilliant mind at work, it’s not a joke.
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-=The Elevator Story - Hitchcock & Capote=-
I heard this on the Johnny Carson show when he was interviewing Truman Capote about Alfred Hitchcock. Capote said that he and Hitchcock had been in a restaurant drinking strawberry daiquiris… quite a few. They were "tipsy" when they got in the elevator. It was a long ride down, they had been on top of the Sears Tower or some such skyscraper.
They were in elevator alone and were chatting about this and that. Their conversation paused when the elevator stopped on the 93 floor and people got in. Once it resumed, Hitchcock turns to Capote and says, “and the blood was everywhere.” He proceeds to tell a story about his friend who was murdered in a brutal way.
The elevator stops after few floors and more people get in. After pausing for the passengers to get in, Hitchcock resumes saying, “at first they thought it was the maid because she was having an affair.” A few more floors and the elevator stops, Hitchcock pauses and the continues, “…the butler was jealous. However, the shoe prints in the blood indicated someone else.” Each time the elevators stops, Hitchcock pauses for passengers to load and then resumes this bloody tale about this murder as he slowly unravels how the police were deducing who did it and explaining the motives of each suspect, which by now numbered quite a few.
This goes on for several minutes during the ride and everyone else is silently listening to this story between Hitchcock and Capote. None of gruesome details were spared… pausing the story at every stop, then resuming to reveal the long and convoluted plot through the time line of details as the police get closer to tracking down the killer. Finally, just before the ground floor, Hitchcock says, “and the only reason the police caught them was……..” DING, they hit ground floor and the elevator doors opened. Once again, as before, Hitchcock paused...
Capote said people shuffled around for a bit, then they reluctantly started exiting the elevator and finally Capote and Hitchcock exit last. Hitchcock didn’t continue the story and about halfway across the building lobby Capote was burning with curiosity. He turns to Hitchcock and says, “well, what happened, who did it and how did they catch them?” Hitchcock says, “no one, that’s just my elevator story.”
You gotta’ love Hitchcock!
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