Jacko lies to a distraught Daisy about how her lover was apprehended. Daisy stays with Jacko, convinced of Hugo's innocence, but Jacko goes to the police and informs on Hugo, leading to his arrest. The police began to search for the killer.
Daisy helps Hugo bury the gun at the beach and Mark and Jacko help him escape. Hugo denies involvement but insists on running away, telling Daisy that the police will be sure to suspect him. In another failed robbery attempt, a police inspector is shot and killed.
The couple go on holiday to the beach at Southbourne, were Hugo hears of a woman who keeps expensive jewelry at home. Daisy gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby, even though she does not press Hugo to marry her. After Daisy confides her fears to Jacko, a robbery is botched and she and Hugo move to a seedy part of town and lie low. Daisy is innocent and maintains her faith in Hugo, even when she suspects that he has given her a piece of stolen jewelry.Ī meeting with Hugo's brother Mark and Mark's wife Gertrude goes badly Hugo is the family black sheep and he pulls a gun when Gertrude is rude to Daisy. Turning 18, she meets Hugo's friend John Jacques, known as Jacko, an older doctor and impotent abortionist who tips Hugo off to burglary opportunities. She moves in with him and gradually learns that he is a minor criminal, a cat burglar with a violent temper. The novel takes place in London, where a beautiful 17-year-old girl named Daisy Bland has a chance meeting with Hugo Chesterman, a 28-year-old man who admits that he is a "bad hat" but whom she finds charming. An introductory note by Nicholas Blake says that the story follows "in broad outline a criminal cause celebre of the early years of the century," but I have not been able to figure out what true crime story he means. The first episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour written by James Bridges was "A Tangled Web," based on the 1956 novel of the same name. Sadly, James Bridges developed cancer and died in 1993 at the age of 57.
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Highlights included The Paper Chase (1973) and The China Syndrome (1979) he received Academy Award nominations for both films and The Paper Chase was followed by a TV series that Bridges also created. Aided by his partner Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen on The Adventures of Superman), Bridges had a successful career in film and on TV.
Among the episodes written by Bridges were "The Jar," which was nominated for an Emmy in 1964 (Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama ) and "An Unlocked Window," which won an Edgar in 1966 (Best Episode in a TV Series).Īfter The Alfred Hitchcock Hour came to an end in 1965, Bridges began to write screenplays and, in 1970, he began to direct his own films. He was also a playwright and, when Norman Lloyd saw one of his plays in Los Angeles, he hired Bridges to write for the Hitchcock TV series. Born in Arkansas in 1936, he acted in a handful of TV episodes and movies in the 1950s (including Invasion of the Saucer Men). James Bridges began his career as a screenwriter with his work for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and, with 16 episodes to his credit, wrote more teleplays for the hour-long series than anyone else.
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