Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
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...
Foreign Correspondent, quite simply, is a knockout. It contains one of Hitchcock's most amazing technical achievements, shooting a plane crash into the ocean from the inside, and one of his best plot clues, involving counter-clockwise windmills. One is again reminded, in this film, of Hitchcock's theory that the best way to make a screen villain memorably terrifying is to make him likeable, and the wonderful British actor Herbert Marshall is, in Foreign Correspondent perhaps the most likeable of all Hitchcock's malfeasants...
...dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, "but not in the midday snow, at least not in my case," protested Director Alfred Hitchcock, 76. Even so, the pudgy film maker and his wife Alma ventured to the snowy slopes of St. Moritz, where he wanted to rest before finishing his latest film, Family Plot. The movie, he said cryptically, is "sort of a comedy-melodrama about a fake woman medium, an out-of-work actor and a chase after a missing heir who is also a kidnaper." Had he bothered even to sample the Swiss snow? "We spend...
...Secret, a Robert Enrico film with Jean-Louis Trintignant. Not too surprisingly, it's thriller about a Man on the Run (not sure who or what is chasing him) with, get this, a Shock Ending. The reviews, however, have been good. If you don't want to gamble, Hitchcock's The 39 Steps is also at the Orson Welles on Friday and Saturday. One of the better spy flicks made, it stars Robert Donat and Madeline Carroll in a cross-England chase complete with trains and foggy landscape. Hitchcock's sense of humor prevents this 1935 thriller from ever bogging...