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Hitchcock's "the Changing Heart"


The most spellbinding (and baffling ) episode of all the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes, is " The Changing Heart " starring Anne Helm and Nicholas Pryor. But I cannot understand what is revealed in the end....why did the Grandfather die, and what exactly did he do to Lisa? I met Anne Helm a few years ago at a convention and asked her....she didn't even know herself ! Can any of you shed some light on this for me? Thanks in advance !

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https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents_-_The_Changing_Heart

Dane Ross goes to a shop owned by Ulrich Klemm in order to get his watch repaired. Ulrich is a master clockmaker who fled Europe during World War II. At the shop, Dane falls in love with Ulrich's daughter Lisa. Klemm, however, insists that they not see each other. Dane reluctantly agrees to stop seeing her and leaves. Later, he hears that she has grown dangerously ill. Dane returns to the shop and discovers that Ulrich has passed away and that Lisa is confined to a wheelchair. Still loving her, he embraces her and is startled to hear a strange ticking coming from her chest. The old clockmaker saved his daughter by giving her a clockwork heart.


Ulrich just got old and died, but one of the last things he did was save his daughter.

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Thankyou, but....did he save her by putting a clock in her chest, so she was really dead?

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He saved her by putting a clock inside her to work as a heart. She didn't die.

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