Word: hitchcocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock; Paramount) at first seems to be a typical Hitchcock spine tingler, whose moral is that heaven may protect the working girl but not if she takes long lunch hours in hotel rooms. The film commences with Janet Leigh bouncing about in her bra while her lover (John Gavin) tries to persuade her to take an early dinner as well as a late lunch ("We could laze around here"). She says pettishly that she wants to get married. He explains that he has no money. That afternoon she steals $40,000 from her boss's real estate...
...suburban Scarsdale, the women's sense of responsibility has the same ring. Says Housewife Rhea Hertel (Woman's Club, Neighborhood Association, P.T.A., League of Women Voters): "If you're receiving benefits and not contributing, what kind of person are you?" Adds Scarsdale's Grace Fitzwater (Hitchcock Presbyterian Church, Woman's Club, P.T.A.): "When we lived in New York City, I roared with laughter at this sort of thing. I never knew anyone in the city who was civic; out here I don't know anybody who isn't." Says Florence Willett...
Robert Presnell's script is a deplorable masterpiece of tears and terrors that in effect resets the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents as a sort of Our Gang Tragedy, and just for good measure throws in what looks like an Alfred Hitchcock ver sion of the Flight into Egypt...
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Still trying to live up to its boast, "TV's Finest Hour" presents a Hitchcock slant on unsavory antics in suburbia...
North by Northwest. Hitchcock at his best, with Gary Grant and Eva Marie Saint dodging Communist spies in a shoot-'em-up that ricochets from Madison Avenue to Mount Rushmore...