The Big Score story
Dora baby-sits for a wealthy F. Hubert Fellowes. She plans to rob him with her boyfriend Mike and his buddy Gino. The three carry out the robbery, but as they are about to leave Fellowes returns and tries to stop them. He is shot and killed. The three make off with $32,000. Two gangsters track them down and kill them. Fellowes, as it happened, was a big-time gangster. Directed by: Boris Sagal. Story by: Sam Merwin, Jr., Bryce Walton.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| adolescence | major | The story follows a quartet of youths who killed a man in the process of robbing his home of $32,000 in cash without realizing he was a big-time gangster. |
| betrayal | major | Gino, along with Dora, shot one of their partners and made of with the booty. |
| burglary | major | The story follows the aftermath of Dora and her two friends stealing $32,000 in cash from the man who hired her to babysit his son. |
| murder | major | Dora and her two friends killed Mr. Fellowes in cold blood while carrying out a robbery of his home. |
| organized crime | major | A revelation of the story is that Dora and her friends murdered Mr. Fellowes in cold blood not knowing he was a big-time gangster and that there would be hell to pay as a result. |
| robbery | major | The story follows the aftermath of Dora and her two friends stealing $32,000 in cash from the man who hired her to babysit his son. |
| American football | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock stepped his viewers through an X's and O's football play that was sketched out on a blackboard. |
| dealing with children | minor | The babysitter Dora urged Larry to go to sleep so that he would grow up to be a big man, like his father. |
| father and son | minor | Mr. Fellowes left his young son in the care of the unscrupulous babysitter Dora. |
| infatuation | minor | Dora and Mike were horsing around on the sofa. |