Word: hitchcocked
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...accent, took $4,000. At Beaulieu thieves even burgled the city hall, escaped with $450 in cash and stamps. One untouched enclave: Monte Carlo, perhaps because Princess Grace once romped cinematically around the Riviera with retired Cat Man Gary Grant as he unraveled a series of robberies in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief...
Homicidal. Made in imitation of Hitchcock's Psycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive...
...poor child is terrified-apparently she didn't see Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which included the same scene. She screams and wheels hysterically away. Her stepmother comes running. They go back to the summerhouse. The body is gone. "You poor dear," her stepmother says, "you've had a hallucination." And next morning the stepmother's doctor, a personable bachelor who comes to dinner almost every day, goes even further. "Your mind," he says gravely to the girl, "has suffered a blow which could affect it permanently...
...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...