Word: capricorn
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...does his subject balance his frightening formal control and let the characters seem real individuals. Hitchcock's audience-manipulation, involving an attitude of superiority toward his viewers, generates the unpleasant feeling that his characters merely illustrate a narrow moral design-Hitchcock's. Only in Shadow of a Doubt, Under Capricorn, and Psycho do they act as whole people. These works, which realize the best tendencies of their period of Hitchcock, transcend his usual limitations by enlisting a more sympathetic audience identification with the characters. They feel unlike other Hitchcock...
...Tibetan Book of the Dead under his arm is looking strained. Out on the street the narrator tried to remember when he had had such an intense religious experience before, and thinks of the time he "was introduced to the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism. I was with a Capricorn-Aries in his meditation room. I asked him if he had any... examples of this school of art." The shrink points to a bare wall and says yes, "It is called the Door to nowhere...
...CAPRICORN-The Goat...
...Righter?who has never bothered with people's names?spends much of his time in a soft-voiced swivet of "Oh, Moonchild,-I'm happy to tell you that this is a very good day for you." "Hello, Taurus. Yes, sign the contracts day after tomorrow, not before." "Well, Capricorn, I've been expecting your call. I'm pleased that it worked out well, but I'm not surprised. Remember me to Aries." At night he keeps a file of his principal clients' charts by his bed for ready consultation at 2:30 a.m. when an actor calls up from...
...colorful background, despite the efforts of its talented creators (add to the list a fine short story writer, John Collier, whose contribution to the script equalled that of Huston and Agee, and photographer Jack Cardiff, then Carol Reed's right-hand man and cameraman on Hitchcock's magnificent Under Capricorn...