Any fans of Alfred Hitchcock?

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I can never choose a favorite…

Grace Kelly in Rear Window ?
or
Eva Marie Saint in North By Northwest ?
or
Ingrid Bergman in Notorious ?
or
…?

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MrZoom said:
Hitchcock is my favorite director and I have quite a few of his films on DVD.

This includes an 8-disc set of some of his earlier films (30s and 40s mainly) released by MGM Home Entertainment. My sister Adriana and her then-husband got it for me for Christmas a few years ago.

Been a while since I watched one of them, though. Maybe this weekend.

My favorite would probably be either North by Northwest, or the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much.

In 2010 while I was vacationing in Orlando, I took advantage of a rare opportunity to see a Hitchcock movie on the big screen. It was “The Birds” – which I had not seen before. It was showing at the AMC Theater at Universal City Walk.
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I rented a set of Hitchcock films from the library the other day and watched the original The Man Who Knew Too Much. It was interesting to see the changes made in the remake. I think I like the modern version with Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart better.
You should watch the original if you have it and compare the two.
Last night I watched Jamaica Inn. I think it was the first movie Maureen O’Hara was in. She was beautiful but I didn’t care for the movie.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I rented a set of Hitchcock films from the library the other day and watched the original The Man Who Knew Too Much. It was interesting to see the changes made in the remake. I think I like the modern version with Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart better.
You should watch the original if you have it and compare the two.
Last night I watched Jamaica Inn. I think it was the first movie Maureen O’Hara was in. She was beautiful but I didn’t care for the movie.
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I saw the original of TMWKTM a year or two ago, when it was on Netflix Instant. I like the remake better – and I believe I read somewhere that Hitchcock, himself, thought the remake was a better movie.
 
Hitchcock was a Roman Catholic. I wonder if he was practicing or at least believed in God, though.

To answer your question, I would consider myself a fan - or least a fan a person can be by just experiencing one film of his, The Birds, which I enjoyed very much.
 
Midwest88 said:
Hitchcock was a Roman Catholic. I wonder if he was practicing or at least believed in God, though.

To answer your question, I would consider myself a fan - or least a fan a person can be by just experiencing one film of his, The Birds, which I enjoyed very much.
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Look at message #11 in this thread. There is a link in it for you to go to a site that tells about him receiving the Eucharist on his deathbed.
 
MrZoom said:
I saw the original of TMWKTM a year or two ago, when it was on Netflix Instant. I like the remake better – and I believe I read somewhere that Hitchcock, himself, thought the remake was a better movie.
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Have you seen the 2 movies Saboteur and Sabotage?
Saboteur was on just the other day on TCM. They are both very good!
 
Midwest88 said:
Hitchcock was a Roman Catholic. I wonder if he was practicing or at least believed in God, though.

To answer your question, I would consider myself a fan - or least a fan a person can be by just experiencing one film of his, The Birds, which I enjoyed very much.
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I think everybody remembers the first time they saw the movie The Birds. I am not sure people ever looked at a flock of birds the same way again! I know I don’t.
 
ServusHumilis said:
I never even realized “North by Northwest” was a Hitchcock picture… another classic!
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I know I said I only watched one Hitchcock film, The Birds, but upon reading this post I will redact what I previous said and say two! I remember watching “NxNW” in high school - which I also really liked.
 
Another great film: Lifeboat.

Almost impossible for him to get that cameo of himself in, given that the entire film was set on a lifeboat (yet he managed!) Plus any movie with the incomparable (but nuts!) Tallulah Bankhead will inevitably be good.
 
Although he created a persona as an aloof saturnine aristocrat, he was often noted as being very quietly kind and thoughtful to those with whom he worked. Bruce Dern, who worked on one of Hitchcock’s last pictures (“Family Plot”), was on the Jimmy Kimmel show a few months ago and told a story that on the last day of shooting, he asked that all the crew members line up so he could thank them all. He walked down the row shaking hands with each person (of about a hundred) and calling them by first name - apparently he had an amazing memory - and thanking each one individually.

Those quiet kinds of charity - like this one: [bra(name removed by moderator)ickings.org/2012/08/13/happy-birthday-hitchcock-how-the-iconic-director-changed-one-boys-life/](http://www.bra(name removed by moderator)ickings.org/2012/08/13/happy-birthday-hitchcock-how-the-iconic-director-changed-one-boys-life/) - probably gives us a better view of the person behind the mask that gossipy biopics.
 
PolarGuy said:
Another great film: Lifeboat.

Almost impossible for him to get that cameo of himself in, given that the entire film was set on a lifeboat (yet he managed!) Plus any movie with the incomparable (but nuts!) Tallulah Bankhead will inevitably be good.
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I’ve seen this too and I’m sure there’s several others that I’ve seen but haven’t realized are his.
 
PolarGuy said:
Another great film: Lifeboat.

Almost impossible for him to get that cameo of himself in, given that the entire film was set on a lifeboat (yet he managed!) Plus any movie with the incomparable (but nuts!) Tallulah Bankhead will inevitably be good.
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I have not seen that one in its entirety. Is Peter Lorre in that one?
 
Arizona_Mike said:
Although he created a persona as an aloof saturnine aristocrat, he was often noted as being very quietly kind and thoughtful to those with whom he worked. Bruce Dern, who worked on one of Hitchcock’s last pictures (“Family Plot”), was on the Jimmy Kimmel show a few months ago and told a story that on the last day of shooting, he asked that all the crew members line up so he could thank them all. He walked down the row shaking hands with each person (of about a hundred) and calling them by first name - apparently he had an amazing memory - and thanking each one individually.

Those quiet kinds of charity - like this one: [bra(name removed by moderator)ickings.org/2012/08/13/happy-birthday-hitchcock-how-the-iconic-director-changed-one-boys-life/](http://www.bra(name removed by moderator)ickings.org/2012/08/13/happy-birthday-hitchcock-how-the-iconic-director-changed-one-boys-life/) - probably gives us a better view of the person behind the mask that gossipy biopics.
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Thanks for telling that story. I think he was a very private person. Wasn’t there little magazine of Alfred Hitchcock stories you could subscribe to as well? I always liked the theme song music to his television show.
Family Plot and The Trouble with Harry were not on my favorites list. I could not get into them. I should probably try again.
He saw Hollywood change throughout his lifetime.
His best movies were made during the golden age of Hollywood.
 
No Peter Lorre in lifeboat. It was originally going to be largely unknowns. The only other actor of any great renown in it was William Bendix. The rest were sort of non-movie stars; one guy was a stage actor.
 
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