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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Opportunity (Season 7, Episode 33)
TV-14
TV Episode | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Paul Devore is an unhappily married department store manager whose wealthy wife loathes him and refuses to divorce him, unwilling to give him half of her assets as community property. He blackmails a thirty-something shoplifter into coming...See morePaul Devore is an unhappily married department store manager whose wealthy wife loathes him and refuses to divorce him, unwilling to give him half of her assets as community property. He blackmails a thirty-something shoplifter into coming to his house the following Sunday evening. Assuming he was going to force her to have sex, she is surprised to find the master bedroom ransacked and all of the valuables missing. She realizes Devore has staged a robbery and all he wants the shoplifter to do is tie him to the bed to make it look like a robbery. But what will Mrs. Devore say when she gets home and finds her husband in this state? Written by garykmcd See less
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Director
Writers
Bryce Walton (teleplay by) | Henry Slesar (teleplay by) | J.W. Aaron (based on a story by)
Producer
Joan Harrison (produced by)
Cinematographer
Status
Edit Released
Updated May 22, 1962

Release date
May 22, 1962 (United States)

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5 cast members
Name Known for
Alfred Hitchcock
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Richard Long
Paul Devore Paul Devore   See fewer
Coleen Gray
Mrs. Lois Callen Mrs. Lois Callen   See fewer
Rebecca Sand
Kate Devore Kate Devore   See fewer
Olive Dunbar
Mrs. Ranwiller Mrs. Ranwiller   See fewer
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