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...Steps. Hitchcock's best. Not a horror film, but a splendidly handled thriller that holds suspense and manages to be urbane even when it borders on the sinister. Robert Donat plays the young Canadian who's thrust into the world of counter-espionage...
...long ago, the most technically gifted of living directors was interviewed upon the appearance of his newest film, Frenzy, which contains a scene of explicit sexual murder that could not have appeared in a general-release film as recently as five years ago. Were you uncomfortable, Alfred Hitchcock was asked, when you read of the young man some years back who, after seeing Psycho, assaulted and fatally stabbed a young woman who was in the process of taking a shower...
...time Hitchcock parried the question, uncomfortably. The man in question, said Hitchcock, had already committed murder and in all likelihood would have used some other method to kill again had he not seen the film. Moreover, Hitchcock recalled, a young boy had injured himself around the turn of the century trying to fly after having seen the stage production of Peter Pan. Should one therefore suppress Peter Pan? Finally, Hitchcock stopped dodging and answered the question. An artist, he said, cannot be concerned with the moral consequences...
...crafty enough to disguise himself as Joseph Cotten for most public appearances. Director Mario Bava has made a great many other films of this sort (Black Sunday being perhaps the best known), each displaying a formidable interest in interior decoration matched by a lofty disregard for intelligence. Hitchcock has his staircases, Bertolucci his interludes of dance; Mario Bava likes to bring on the Iron Maiden as a particularly personal touch. Here, as always, he makes appropriately ghastly...
...Allen does not accept the invitation, the Senior Class is also considering for the post, in order of preference, newscaster Walter Cronkite, comedian Bill Cosby, talk show moderator Dick Cavett and film director Alfred Hitchcock. The class selected 35 people through a poll conducted in the Houses three weeks...