Claude Rains Preys For A Losing Horse | Hitchcock Presents
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Alfred Hitchcock directs this special episode of a priest in a small run down church. Desperate for money Father Amian turns to a Horse gambler to pay off the debts of the church.
"The Horse Player" Dir. By Alfred Hitchcock
The Reverend Amian is the pastor of a small church. He gets a sizable contribution from a horse race gambler named Sheridan. Sheridan has apparently prayed to win and has been successful. He gives the priest a tip on a horse. The priest gives him $500 of the church's savings to bet on the horse. Amian's conscience gets to him, however, and prays for the horse to lose. It does. Sheridan arrives and tells the priest that he bet his money on the horse to win and it almost did, but suddenly quit. The gambler also says he didn't want to risk the church's money on a win, and instead bet on the horse to show. Since it did, the church won $2,100.
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Ah Claude Rains. Lovely lovely man. My very favorite actor past or present.
In some of the best and rarest of Hitchcock episodes, nobody is murdered, such as this one. The suspense is just the same, if not more so.
The twists on this story are so artful!
Love the ending to this! God worked out the best solution for all concerned. Lessons learned! 🙏👏
Claude Rains ❤
One of the best
Love Claude Rains ... happy to see him on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
I believe he also played a washed up actor and drunk in an episode?
@lisaletto7337 yes that episode had a great twist at the end.
GOD LOVES US ALL.
.....okaaaay
The Lord also has a sense of humour.
The Lord works in mysterious ways, Now they can get the new roof.
ChiPom 2016 You don't understand. The priest, by praying for the horse to loose the race, he caused the poor man loosing all his own money. Now the priest has to feel guilty for what he did.
@@PaulSmith-pf2uq I nailed in real life the priest would have had him donate portions to fix the roof. There's no reason why it can't work out for everyone
Yes, He does!!!!
Hitchcock presents another serious light comedy episode 💐💐
Salwa exactly 12- 26-19
.."a great place between the Catholic church and Hialeah". Fantastic
Well, the priest had his prayer answered, the horse didn't win, the guy went back to the hardware business and the church got the dough. The Lord works in strange ways...
Amen!
:)
Prayer over everything
This episode is a must see and is my favorite one because of the twist at the end. Acting was superb!!! Don't miss this one.
I don't understand why we would have to go peacock and pay for these old shows. Look at this priest, he would be a giving soul to all of us, so we could enjoy this show in our lifetime. I guess I should pray about this....lol..
Bit of a typo in the title there, shouldn’t that be “Prays” for a losing horse, ‘Preys’ makes him a Hunter!
Seriously though, this was another well made and entertaining episode in the superb Hitchcock TV series. A moral tale and a dig at the hypocrisy of religious belief all in one.
I thought it might’ve been a play on words, though I’m not so sure how that would make sense. I guess it could kind of make sense if you thought of it like he was preying on an innocent gullible victim, which in the case of this episode would be the priest. Or maybe preying on the fact that he’s taking advantage of the “prayer racket” (as he put it) of literally PRAYING for the horse he bet on to win the race. I don’t know, maybe it was just a typo and I’m reaching here haha
I think John Nowakowski had the best interpretation of this episode. I don't know how you see "hypocrisy".
Actually, the gambler was bound to end up broke at some point if he continued to place it all on sure things - his performance was at 77% (14 out of 18). But didn’t he have that nice new car? He probably paid cash for it so all is not lost.
One of my all time epsoide 👏 & 👏 & a 🏆 / smile everyone have a safe & enjoyable New 🎉Year's 🎈December 26,2019
I naturally noticed this, spelling mistakes are common online - by-the-way, in correct grammatical usage, some anti-Catholics might think of priests 'preying on' children (this situation has been exaggerated by the way), yes it’s "praying for" a miracle - and religion is not a racket, believers would say - a nice episode with a happy ending
That gambling man is so innocent 😇. Poor father is just gullible. Theres a diffetence you know😳
🤣
Very true…❤️
Note that when Raines says "...our Church will survive without _race horses._ " it sounds a good deal more like "...without resources." Context was the only way I figured out what exactly the line was. Given that without racehorses the church would have had almost no resources, leads me to wonder if the ambiguous pronunciation was perhaps intentional on Claude Raines' (or the writer's) part. Okay, fine, so I'm nuts.
ty very much
Nice twist.
Splendid !
This idea of win vs. place was based on the episode Horse Play in the Orson Wells radio show Harry Lime. It was later used of course in The Sting.
Love Claude Rains in these episodes,outstanding performances as always ❤
A great one of many!
The man said this was his way of making a living. If the man was still working at the hardware store would it be a sin to pray for more business so he could earn more money to help his family and community?
No
The irony is that the degenerate gambler is more virtuous than the priest. He could’ve easily claimed the priest’s winnings for himself, instead he’s a man of his word and even gives a small donation to the church with little money his has left.
Cool shows
Best show
Perhaps other commenters have already mentioned, but when a priest asks for a favor from the Lord, it is called PRAYING. When a priest preys, it usually involves an altar boy...
Nice.
Thank You!
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The title: :Preys OR Prays.....
wow ! there is a huge difference.
At the end I though Rains was going to keep his original $500 and give the remaining $1600 to the gambler.
Kinda like winnin` the powerball, pray away!
Or a bingo game ;)
Now this is clever
Isn't it "prays".
ajr000 perhaps it should’ve been “praise” 😉
It's spelled "Pray", not prey
The Vicar cleaned up!
Very lovely, Claude Rains is the best. You might want to fix your title though. It's P-R-A-Y-S. "Preys" has another meaning entirely, more appropriate to some of Rains' other performances. haha
The lord's number 7 x 3 =21 hundred dollars, the lord speaks to us all, if we just listen
Ask the Lord to decide.
Did none of these commentors spy "preys" instead of "prays?" Oops, only one. Thanks for paying attention ajr000.
Prays not preys..
PRAYS my friend prAys! If you consider a winning horse "prEy" than maybe you might hunt it.
How about this
Prays For A Losing Horse |
It’s called Greed
The the father is going to spend five hundred bucks to teach this guy a lesson why didn't you just teaching a lesson with $2
Across the board.
Such a deep teaching. What is a miracle? Are you on that island where God is sending you an airplane, or a ship, and since it is not according to your expectations of who, God is, or how God operates, you dismiss this. My first thought was, who is this Bishop, this representative of the Pope, and why isn't the Vatican willing to help with the roof for this church? It may be dangerous to demand the will of God with the idea that one has paid for it by being obedient in the way they perceive obedience.
Claude Reins preys for a losing horse? What is he, an apex predator? Some priest do prey, but usually on innocent people, not horses. Best that priests pray, not prey. :-)
All tainted money. God had nothing to do with any winnings. He is a holy God.
Or................................you could pray for the horse to win and donate the profits to an orphanage?!
the gambler is honest. He could have kept the priest's winning for himself, if he wasn't. The father prayed for the horse to lose knowing full well that the man had put all his money in it. Hmmm. So the man goes back to bust his ass in the hardware bussiness and father continues to fatten his own by sitting on it all day. Hmmm
He's a thief.