![]() ![]() We next see Laura enter her classroom, where she teaches a group of young women. With no family, no money, and no job, Briarstone was her last chance at survival. She remarks on how things have changed in the years she has been away and, after she leaves the room, the principal and the assistant principal discuss Laura's past: she wrote a desperate letter seeking employment and she has lived a desperate life, in which both of her parents died and she was left alone to survive World War Two and its aftermath. Laura has been out of the United States for a long time and she has just been hired at Briarstone as the new teacher of European literature. The woman is Laura Siddons, a teacher and former classmate of the principal, twenty-five years before. In the main lobby, as young women scurry to class, a middle-aged woman with a battered suitcase makes her way uncertainly through the crowd to the office of the principal, where she is welcomed. "Graduating Class" is a gentle story with an unexpected ending, where one character's attempt to protect another has unintended and harmful consequences.Īn establishing shot opens the show, depicting the front of "Briarstone," a women's college located in a beautiful, large house. ![]() ![]() Stirling Silliphant's final teleplay for Alfred Hitchcock Presents was "Graduating Class," which was broadcast on CBS on Sunday, December 27, 1959, making it the last episode of the series to be shown in the 1950s. "What we have here is a failure to communicate."- Cool Hand Luke ![]()
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