Word: hitchcocked
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...Hitchcock's Lifeboat today at 7:30; Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Sunday...
...Hitchcock's Murder at 6:10 and 9:40 p.m. and The Killers (Hem and Burt Lancaster...
...Cambridge this weekend is at the Harvard-Epworth Church. There are many weekends when this statement could be made, since their programmers are so solid, but this time it is especially true. Strangers on a Train. Wow! It's malicious, it's visually stunning, and in none of Hitchcock's American films does he etch his characters with such trenchant economy. Best scene: Robert Walker obsessively watches a tennis game with murder on his mind. Everyone else's eyes follow the ball; Walker's follow Farley Granger. (This scene was shot, by the way, on location in the fashionable suburn...
Ambler heroes, who tend to be British engineers or American journalists with names like Carter and Latimer, always blunder into situations beyond their control, just as the reader falls from the world of the rational browser into the depths of frenzied addition. Alfred Hitchcock has written about one famous Ambler beginning, that of Background To Danger (1937). Kenton is a British journalist in Germany who has lost all his money in a poker game. He takes a train to Vienna to borrow some from a man he knows there. But on the train he shares a compartment with...
DETONATE A BOMB in the middle of a conversation, Alfred Hitchcock observed to an interviewer, and you will make the audience jump. But let them know that there is a bomb underneath the table over which two people are having a normal conversation and you can have your audience on the edge of their seats for as long as you like...