Mr and Mrs Smith

From Hollywood, the NBC Theater presents This is the Screen Director's Guild presentation of a comedy of marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Robert Montgomery and introducing the director of the film, Alfred Hitchcock.

Like every other art, the motion picture has developed its own popular catch phrases of evaluation and criticism. One of these is the Hitchcock Touch. The Hitchcock Touch is more than an artist's signature.

It represents the highest pitch of the screen director's art, an indelible impression of the director's unique talents upon the other ingredients of the film. And now it is with pride that the NBC theater presents the screen director of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and such other unforgettable pictures as Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, Notorious, and Rope.

Ladies and gentlemen, Alfred Hitchcock. Thank you very much. it would seem that after a decade of direct emotion pictures in this country, I have become associated with that emotional skyrocketed suspense. So perhaps I should warn you that tonight suspense has been suspended.

I must confess to several attempts to scare the daylights out of an audience, or at least to tie their nerves into pretty little knots. But in Mr. and Mrs. Smith we reversed ourselves and turned to comedy.

So don't bother sitting on the edge of your chair. It might strain your diaphragm if you feel a giggle coming on. Now we give you Mr. and Mrs. David Smith, a family with a formula, a couple with a constitution, a set of rules for a successful marriage.

There has just been a domestic battle between the Smiths. Right now, handsome David Smith is reclining on the bathroom floor. His head pillowed on the bathroom scale. Anne Smith is brandishing a razor at her husband's throat.