Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second place. In 1961, after a bad start, they won 95 games-a club record. Aha, said the never-die fans-just wait till next year. But then Richards quit to become general manager of the Houston Colts, and the job of winning a pennant went to Billy Hitchcock, softhearted Southerner who had never managed a big-league team...
Quick to take advantage of Hitchcock's easygoing ways, the Orioles became the playboys of the league, yukked it up at night-and skidded back to seventh place. Attendance plummeted -off 160,000 in 1962, another 16,000 last year. Hitchcock quarreled bitterly with sports writers, insisting: "They're trying to get me fired." Oriole players were openly contemptuous of Hitchcock. "What kind of manager does that?" snorted one player, after the Orioles dropped five straight, and Hitchcock cheerfully announced: "Boys, the beer's on me." Says General Manager Lee MacPhail: "I don't think everything...
...single home run. Bauer, gratefully, had long since left. There were still two days to go in the 1962 season when he announced that he was quitting: "When a man loses his pride, he loses everything." Then he signed on with the Orioles as a coach under Billy Hitchcock...
...compulsive armchair analyst or a sadist in love. He seems to yearn for the patently farfetched heroics he has enjoyed as James Bond in From Russia With Love. Actress Hedren, obviously groomed for stardom by the Master, zips through some 32 costume changes without seriously ruffling her composure. Hitchcock's elegant cinematic style, evident here and there, seems wasted in a melange of banal dialogue, obtrusively phony process shots, and a plot that congeals more often than it thickens...
When an unknown director turns out a suspense melodrama as dreary and unconvincing as this, moviegoers revel in the thought of what it might have been if Hitchcock had done it. It is disconcerting to come away from Mamie feeling precisely the same...