Word: hitchcocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alfred Hitchcock, one feels, might have pulled it off, but Director Michael Anderson fails shabbily. An instance is the simple and necessary business of withholding information. When Hitchcock wants to hide the face of a stalking murderer from the camera, he invents some reason-perhaps a half-drawn shade in a rear window. Anderson merely points his lens toward anonymous trouser legs and fires away. No matter how hard the cellists play, this is cheating...
...post-Gothic and pre-Freudian shocker, The Turn of the Screw, I confess I cannot easily conceive: James's novella, I have always thought, could only be dramatized by someone experienced in the nuances of psychological muck--a writer of the Grand Guignol, say, or perhaps even Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...
...sponsored television broadcasts, says Sahl, put him into a peculiar predicament. "May I mention the United States?" the President asks his toothpaste sponsor. "No. That's a plug." Idly reflecting that Kennedy is as handsome as a movie star, Sahl pictures him cast as the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, "pursued across Mount Rushmore by the head of the House Rules Committee. There'd be good shots of Kennedy climbing on his own face...
...Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele Astaire Douglass, Elizabeth Arden Graham, Mrs. George Baker, Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich and Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock...
...parents will return from the movies, he replies: "Not till the witching hour methinks, or worse. For no more will th' embattled hombres make their peace in the mesa'd West, their smoking armaments put by, than Cary Grant will post him through such feats as Hitchcock doth concoct." Pretty chilling, but De Vries really sets in a little later when a maiden solemnly informs her swain that "It would be terrible to be regarded as a child-bearing machine...