The Life Work of Juan Diaz

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 3 Episode 4

Overview:
Juan Diaz is dying and penniless. His last wish is that he can provide financial security for his family. About a year later, a gravedigger named Alejandro exhumes Juan's corpse to make room in the cemetery. He has it mummified and sotries it in a crypt with a number of other mummies. Juan wife, Maria, discovers Alejandro plan and steals Juan's body. She hangs it in the house and tells tourists that it is a authentic Mexican mummy. Money from the tourists pays for food and clothing for Maria and her three children. Eventually, however, Maria is overcome by the ghoulishness of what she has done. She begs for forgiveness, but a gleam in the eye of the corpses body reveals that Juan approves of what she has done.

Genre : Crime, Mystery, Drama

Actors : Alfred Hitchcock

Release Date : 1964-10-26

Duration : 51 menit

Rating : ⭐ 8/10 (2 votes)

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Other Episodes (Season 3)

The Return of Verge Likens
1. The Return of Verge Likens
Change of Address
2. Change of Address
Water's Edge
3. Water's Edge
The Life Work of Juan Diaz
4. The Life Work of Juan Diaz
See the Monkey Dance
5. See the Monkey Dance
Lonely Place
6. Lonely Place
The McGregor Affair
7. The McGregor Affair
Misadventure
8. Misadventure
Triumph
9. Triumph
Memo from Purgatory
10. Memo from Purgatory
Consider Her Ways
11. Consider Her Ways
The Crimson Witness
12. The Crimson Witness
Where the Woodbine Twineth
13. Where the Woodbine Twineth
The Final Performance
14. The Final Performance
Thanatos Palace Hotel
15. Thanatos Palace Hotel
One of the Family
16. One of the Family
An Unlocked Window
17. An Unlocked Window
The Trap
18. The Trap
Wally the Beard
19. Wally the Beard
Death Scene
20. Death Scene
The Photographer and the Undertaker
21. The Photographer and the Undertaker
Thou Still Unravished Bride
22. Thou Still Unravished Bride
Completely Foolproof
23. Completely Foolproof
Power of Attorney
24. Power of Attorney
The World's Oldest Motive
25. The World's Oldest Motive
The Monkey's Paw - A Retelling
26. The Monkey's Paw - A Retelling
The Second Wife
27. The Second Wife
Night Fever
28. Night Fever
Off Season
29. Off Season


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