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...July 14, 1966, Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film, Torn Curtain, had its World Premier in Boston, Massachusetts. Hitchcock attended that premiere and, on the afternoon of the same day, he came to Harvard to receive an honorary membership in the Harvard Dramatic Club. These quotes come from a short question-answer period held at the award presentation, and from an exclusive interview held afterward at 4 p.m. in the Radcliffe Graduate Center...
...HITCHCOCK: Well, all detail in the literature of the camera applies to most situations. It is how you use the intimacy and detail. In Potemkin, of course, you have the permabulator going down the steps, and the incident is repeated several times at several angles -- you remember that. Well, I think it's a matter of using the language of the camera which is so flexible and free. The beauty of the camera is that you can photograph anything you want and make and comment you want...
...HITCHCOCK: Yes. The set designer comes in very early, because during the course of the writing I want certain things researched. Because if it won't work out then I don't put it in the script. In other words, I get the designer involved in the making as well. So really it's the writer, me, and the designer, all working together in the preparatory planning...
...most nerveless member of the company, of course, is Bing himself. He often pulls a Hitchcock and turns up onstage as a breastplated soldier in Eugen Onegin or leading the soldier's band in Faust. But he is really a frustrated conductor. In the theater, in the subway, walking along the street, his hands are continually dancing as he sings and hums some aria playing through his mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office...
...catalogue of the scenes and moments in the first half that reveal Hitchcock's genius would fill a notebook. The fact remains that if Alfred Hitchcock filmed the telephone book, anyone seriously interested in film would have to see it. If the total impression of Torn Curtain is disappointing, it is still one of the most fascinating American films in recent years. Anyway, it's Hitchcock's fiftieth film. Which makes it an event of some importance no matter how you look...