Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
...true story, Balestrero's ordeal had drama, heart tugs, near tragedy, even, with his wife better, an upbeat ending. As fiction, with Henry Fonda playing Balestrero, the drama, heart tugs and near tragedy have been dissipated. Director Alfred Hitchcock, in a change of pace from his usual suspense formula, seems to have been so impressed with having a true story to tell that he gave it a completely literal rendering. Turning the story into fiction without fictionalizing, he stripped it of its emotional impact; by sticking to the facts, he missed the truth...
...Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes...
...Trust Your Wife? (CBS) 10) Alfred Hitchcock Presents...
McKay over Hitchcock. In the Republican Senate primary, former Governor Douglas McKay, recently resigned as Eisenhower's Interior Secretary, won a comfortable 22,000-vote victory over Church Leader and former State Senator Philip Hitchcock. Victory after an unexpectedly hard campaign (TIME, May 14) gave McKay the right to face Democratic Senator Wayne Morse (stung by a 17% primary vote given a non-campaigning service-station operator named Woodrow Wilson Smith) in November. By pitting rough Doug McKay against articulate Wayne Morse, Oregon promised itself an exciting political season...