one of the most disturbing TV episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, ‘The Glass Eye’ (the opening episode of the third year). Jessica Tandy (again – the very actress who was the original Mouth!) plays here a lone woman who falls for a handsome ventriloquist, Max Collodi (a reference to the author of Pinocchio). When she gathers the courage to approach him alone in his quarters, she declares her love for him and steps forward to embrace him, only to find that she is holding in her hands a wooden dummy’s head; after she withdraws in horror, the ‘dummy’ stands up and pulls off its mask, and we see the face of a sad older dwarf who starts to jump desperately on the table, asking the woman to go away … The ventriloquist is in fact the dummy, while the hideous dummy is the actual ventriloquist. …The partial object, which is effectively alive, and whose dead puppet the ‘real’ person is: the ‘real’ person is merely alive, a survival machine, a ‘human animal’, while the apparently ‘dead’ supplement is the focus of excessive Life.

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