Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thirty-Nine Steps stars Robert Donat and is Hitchcock circa...
...Alfred Hitchcock, Hollywood's well-rounded master of movie thrillers, stopped working on the script of his 54th film long enough to attend his 75th birthday party last week. On hand at Chasen's to toast the director of Psycho and Frenzy was a galactic gathering of 250 well-wishers, including Actors Cory Grant and Paul Newman and Director François Truffaut. Despite the guest list and a cake adorned with 76 pastry tracings of the master's pudgy profile, Hitchcock was less interested in encomiums than work. "My new movie will involve kidnaping...
...Steps, despite stiff competition, tops the list this week as the best movie in town (The Third Man is a very close second). Hitchcock's spy thriller is one of his most well constructed films and certainly the most enjoyable to watch. There are a whole bunch of terrific scenes in this movie; the neatest one is when Donat pretends to be a candidate for Parliament...
...Magnificient Ambersons is okay, but doesn't really belong with these classics. Monday night's Marx Brothers comedy, Room Service, is hardly one of their funniest and you should probably see Annimal Crackers in Boston instead. The 39 Steps, also playing Monday, is one of the best mysteries that Hitchcock (or anyone) ever made...
...Hitchcock candidly concedes that the conservatives' fight is uphill. "The liberal catechetical establishment is so entrenched that it will take ten years for any theological recovery to take hold," he says. As for liturgy, "In some dioceses you can do almost anything you want to." Yet Hitchcock, at least, does not want to return the church to its monolithic, pre-Vatican II days-even if it could be done. "There is a substantial element in the church that has accepted the changes but is dismayed by the never-ending process of eroding the traditions," he says. It is this...