Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ELIOT HOUSE DINING HALL, The Third Man (Orson Welles) and Marnie (Hitchcock...
Judging from the overall outcome of the balloting, though, the minds of seniors are working in some bizarre patterns. Following Allen in the balloting were television commentator Walter Cronkite, comedian Bill Cosby, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, and wonder boy comedian Dick Cavett. Madame Binh, Class Marshal Dake reports, finished seventh...
...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...