Which is your favourite Hitchcock movie?
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As the new Hitchcock movie has just came out what is your favourite movie of his?
Mine is Psycho with Janet Lee and Anthony Perkins. I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it decades ago.
Mine is Psycho with Janet Lee and Anthony Perkins. I have loved this movie since the first time I saw it decades ago.
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My favourite would Psycho or Frenzy for its 70s Britishness
Honourable mentions: North by Northwest is thrilling, The Birds is terrifying,
I haven't even seen them all either.
But from the top of my head a few that are right up there at the top for me are...
Strangers on a Train
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
So many good films. Even a Hitchcock film that may not be his best is probably going to be very good indeed by normal standards.
I know what you mean but that's what films did back then - tell the story then credits roll.
Nowadays you have to have explanations via three different endings all dragging it out.
ha, i wouldn't go that far, but it just jars that it ends so quickly, i'd argue that a little more time given to the end chapter would have made it less so.
I agree it is the nature of films at that time though, to a degree.
Psycho is on ITV at about 3 am tonight btw.
You don't know what you are missing.
I would have to say for suspense Rear Window with Vertigo, very close. I would say for dramatic narrative Rebecca and Notorious are very good.
Notorious is another favourite of mine, bit slow to start, but the sense of building intensity in the second half of the film is outstanding.
1. Psycho - the game changer. The Grandaddy of the 'Slasher Movie'. So many iconic scenes.
2. The Lady Vanishes - Has the best comic interplay of any of Hitch's films. A very clever MacGuffin as well.
3. The 39 Steps - Hitch's best 'man on the run chase movie'. Donat and Carroll's chemistry was amazing.
4. Rear Window - Interesting take on media voyeurism and human relationships in a thriller film.
5. Shadow of a Doubt - Interesting tale of evil coming to small town America.
Honourable mentions to North by Northwest(classic chase sequences) and Frenzy(for making a 1970s comeback for Hitch and covering a graphic subject).
There are a few others as well(e.g. Rebecca and Notorious). Generally Hitch had quite a high output, but he needed a good script, without he turned out a turkey(e.g. Topaz!).
Quite a few of them that I don't like, though. 'Rope', for instance. What a load of rubbish that film is.
North By Northwest
Frenzy
Dial M For Murder
Shadow Of A Doubt
Was Dial M For Murder remade in 1998 as A Perfect Muder (starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas) or are those two separate films?
Rebecca