Alfred Hitchcock präsentiert None Are So Blind (1955–1962) watch online HD

I see that there is only one review of this episode and I feel it deserves better than what it has received. The whole point of Alfred Hitchcock Presents is to create, in half an hour, an interesting character or two and to present the audience with a little twist that they can think about for the rest of the day with satisfaction. It is especially good if the audience has no idea what the twist is going to be, but with little hints along the way to make us realize afterwards that we should have guessed. And the title is always a clue in itself.

Hurd Hatfield is a very good actor, and he was famous for his day because of Dorian Grey. He once said that Dorian Grey was both the best and worst thing that had ever happened to him. He is excellent in the role... perfect in fact, which is why the twist is such a shock. The supporting cast, especially the detective, are great, and it is a lovely episode and a lot of fun. As usual AH does some lovely stuff at the beginning.

Give this episode a chance. It is definitive Hitchcock presents and a lot of fun.

Fairly suspenseful episode, until the really gimmicky upshot. Seymour is a slightly effete antiques dealer with a wealthy Aunt Muriel (Dunnock). Seems he's got pretensions of being too superior to go to work now that his shop is failing and auntie is tired of supporting it. Besides Muriel is beginning to treat him with disdain mainly because of his posturing airs. So being the egotist he is, guess what he contemplates.

Hatfield specialized in such fey parts beginning with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Here his smooth face and elegant manner are quite believable. Dunnock too registers as the gritty aunt. But the payoff to his rather pedestrian plan is little more than a quirky gimmick that should have been re-thought. In passing-- I can't help noting KT Stevens' rather inessential role as Seymour's sultry paramour. I suspect the role was tacked on by TV's Standards and Practices to assure audiences that the effete Seymour was not actually gay despite his fey manner. That's just my surmise. Nonetheless, TV was indeed that airbrushed during the culturally conservative 1950's.

This is another episode with an inheritance at stake, and a wealthy ne'er do well (Hurd Hatfield) willing to kill to get it. Our pretentious protagonist narrates a good part of the tale. He imagines he should have lived during the Renaissance. He says things like "I never worry about age. I have the sort of bone structure that lasts."

Seymour (that's his symbol-laden name) tells us fairly early on about his plan to kill his aunt, so that's not where the suspense lies. Instead, it's about how the plan will inevitably fail (or will it succeed in the story, only to have Hitch tells us he was caught afterward?).

It's an interesting character. The ending is kind of silly - there's a dramatic ta-da! effect - but I don't mind that.

Hurd Hatfield, to me, will always be Dorian Grey, the man who traded his soul so that he would always look youthful even though leading a life of debauchery. I suppose a lot of film goers in the mid fifties had that feeling too (he really seemed to have discovered the fountain of youth) - so it is not surprising that he should turn up in this episode as a man who takes narcissism to a new level.

So far this second series of Alfred Hitchcock Presents has not lived up to the first - the episodes I have seen are full of black humor and the endings are unsatisfactory. "None Are So Blind" is unfortunately more of the same with Hatfield starring as Seymour Johnston, a man so blinded by fantasy that he sees his sensible Aunt Muriel (fantastic Mildred Dunnock) as a miserly shrew who won't give him an opportunity to make good. His father knew his true nature and entrusted his inheritance to his aunt but, at the end of his rope, he thinks that the only way he can live the way he feels is his due is by killing his aunt.

He finds a wallet complete with a driver's license and intends to take on the owner's identity to form an alibi when he gets around to murdering his aunt. He meets a neighbour at the boarding house and makes sure he leaves her with a formidable impression of a grumpy old man - unfortunately for him he leaves another more lasting impression.

Episode blunder - when he puts the letter to his aunt in the drawer, it was empty, but when the police find the letter, it is not only in a different drawer, the drawer is full of papers!!

This 1956 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents considers the use of a stolen ID for criminal purposes. In the 21st century, stolen ID's are mostly used fraudulently in the financial world. The purpose of the stolen ID in this episode is to incriminate a third party for the murder of a wealthy aunt and to enable inheriting from her estate. The writers had many options in choosing the final twist. I think they could have had a better choice, e.g. the third party was in the morgue the day before, or the third party was incarcerated, or the third party was a homicide detective. To their credit, however, in an interesting way, they addressed a situation that is a problem that plagues us today.

Everything about this is dumb, from the basic premise to the silly conclusion. Seymour is such a jerk of a character it makes you wonder why anyone would put up with him for a moment. Why is he allowed to lounge around in that house, making his pronouncements and whining about his lot in life. The woman should have tossed his sorry butt out of there long ago. He runs a stupid antique shop, which, I guess, keeps him respectable and part of the hoi poloi. He eats at diners and pontificates to those around him. We hear his worthless thoughts. He has so little imagination but does have the advantage that everyone believes that he is too lazy, even to commit a violent act. The story drones on in one improbability after another and the ending is an absolutely snooze. Don't bother with this, even though the famous actor, Hurd Hatfield (just kidding), is in it. I thought Soupy Sales would have been a better choice.

The clues to Seymour's undoing despite his brilliant planing were there. It is an episode that must indeed be re-watched.

You'll probably have to watch this one twice. Some may notice something is off during the episode. Some may not. Either way, once the ending is revealed you'll probably want to go back and watch it again.

I have no clue what the other poster is talking about with the drawer. It certainly is not empty when it is first opened.

Identity Theft before the term was invented. But what a twist at the end: