Any fans of Alfred Hitchcock?

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Watched “The 39 Steps” the other day. That one was really good and one of Hitchcock’s first films.

I really want to see “Vertigo”, “The Birds” and some others, but I haven’t had the time.

Iconic filmmaker, Catholic who was Salesian and Jesuit trained. 😃

“Psycho” is probably one of my favorites.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Have you seen the 2 movies Saboteur and Sabotage?
Saboteur was on just the other day on TCM. They are both very good!
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I have seen Sabotage, it is part of that box set from MGM that I mentioned earlier. Also in that set are Rebecca, Notorious, Lifeboat, and The Lodger. That last one, for those who haven’t seen it, is a silent film which was Hitchcock’s first real “Hitchcockian thriller”.

I have not seen Saboteur. The website canistream.it/ tells me that it’s available to stream on VUDU, and I have some credit with that particular service.
 
MrZoom said:
I have seen Sabotage, it is part of that box set from MGM that I mentioned earlier. Also in that set are Rebecca, Notorious, Lifeboat, and The Lodger. That last one, for those who haven’t seen it, is a silent film which was Hitchcock’s first real “Hitchcockian thriller”.

I have not seen Saboteur. The website canistream.it/ tells me that it’s available to stream on VUDU, and I have some credit with that particular service.
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That sounds like a nice box set you have. A good variety of his films.
I watched most of the Lodger the other night, but was too tired to finish it.
Saboteur stars Robert Cummings. It is a good thriller and lots of action.
I also saw Foreign Correspondent on tv the other day with Joel McCrae. I think that also was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and I really liked it.
 
adawgj said:
Watched “The 39 Steps” the other day. That one was really good and one of Hitchcock’s first films.

I really want to see “Vertigo”, “The Birds” and some others, but I haven’t had the time.

Iconic filmmaker, Catholic who was Salesian and Jesuit trained. 😃

“Psycho” is probably one of my favorites.
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“Psycho” trivia:

One of the pictures hanging in Norman’s office is of David and Bathsheba, mimicking Norman’s sneaking peeks at Janet Leigh through the wall.

Nowhere in the shower scene do you actually see the knife piercing the body.

Hitchcock used several types of melons to try to reproduce a sound similar to a knife stabbing a body. His famous one word decision: “Casaba” 😃
 
I like most of what I’ve seen from him, except maybe his really early films. The Birds was awesome, and I really enjoyed Rear Window and The Lady Vanishes, too. I think those three are my favorites, though Spellbound was very good, too. Ooh, and North by Northwest, and Rope, and Torn Curtain, and… I’m going to stop now. Psycho and Vertigo were interesting, but they’re nowhere close to the top of my list. 🤷
 
NeedsMercy said:
“Psycho” trivia:

One of the pictures hanging in Norman’s office is of David and Bathsheba, mimicking Norman’s sneaking peeks at Janet Leigh through the wall.

Nowhere in the shower scene do you actually see the knife piercing the body.

Hitchcock used several types of melons to try to reproduce a sound similar to a knife stabbing a body. His famous one word decision: “Casaba” 😃
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I also heard that while Janet Leigh was in the shower they turned the hot water off so she would have a look of shock.
Don’t know if that is true or not.
Thanks for the trivia. I will have to look for the picture the next time I watch the movie.
 
Kamaduck said:
I like most of what I’ve seen from him, except maybe his really early films. The Birds was awesome, and I really enjoyed Rear Window and The Lady Vanishes, too. I think those three are my favorites, though Spellbound was very good, too. Ooh, and North by Northwest, and Rope, and Torn Curtain, and… I’m going to stop now. Psycho and Vertigo were interesting, but they’re nowhere close to the top of my list. 🤷
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You are the first poster to mention The Lady Vanishes. That was a good one.

Marnie was another one I was not fond of. Bruce Dern was in that one also but had a small part at the end.

Rear Window has always been one of my favorites.
I am a big fan of James Stewart and the rest of the cast - Wendel Corey, Thelma Ritter and Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr were great also.
 
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?
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I remember that, here in the UK, there were paperback editions of some of the short stories from which many of the movies and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents “TV shows were adapted. I can remember reading “Sorry, Wrong Number” which – I think – starred Joan Crawford. It was a spine-chilling tale, even on the printed page!
 
dividus said:
I remember that, here in the UK, there were paperback editions of some of the short stories from which many of the movies and “Alfred Hitchcock Presents “TV shows were adapted. I can remember reading “Sorry, Wrong Number” which – I think – starred Joan Crawford. It was a spine-chilling tale, even on the printed page!
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Yep, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine was the magazine you’re thinking of, 7 Sorrows. It’s been around for decades and is still being published - themysteryplace.com/ahmm/

There were quite a few Hitchcock anthologies that were in hardback and paperback, and contain some of the best horror and mystery stories of the 1950s and 1960s - they had titles like “Stories That Even Scared Me” and featured authors like Bradbury, Miriam Allen De Ford, Anthony Boucher (another Catholic, incidentally). Some were targeted towards a young adult audience, and I read one called “Monster Museum” over and over as a kid.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
Yep, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine was the magazine you’re thinking of, 7 Sorrows. It’s been around for decades and is still being published - themysteryplace.com/ahmm/

There were quite a few Hitchcock anthologies that were in hardback and paperback, and contain some of the best horror and mystery stories of the 1950s and 1960s - they had titles like “Stories That Even Scared Me” and featured authors like Bradbury, Miriam Allen De Ford, Anthony Boucher (another Catholic, incidentally). Some were targeted towards a young adult audience, and I read one called “Monster Museum” over and over as a kid.
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Alfred Hitchcock has been a part of my life since I was a young adult in the 1960’s and my high school years. I didn’t discover some of his best movies until cable and VHS in the 1980’s and then I really appreciated his work. He continues to amaze me to this day!
I wish now I would have subscribed to his magazine.
 
Also watched six “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” episodes today. One of the episodes I watched was originally written by Ray Bradbury.
 
Talking Of Ray Bradbury, he wrote what in my opinion was one of the best ever episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” which was entitled “The Life Work Of Juan Diaz” It might be a little macabre for some tastes but it’s a beautiful little story that stays in your mind after watching. On a very sad note, Pina Pellicer, the Mexican actress who played the wife of Juan Diaz, committed suicide at the age of thirty.
 
dividus said:
Talking Of Ray Bradbury, he wrote what in my opinion was one of the best ever episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” which was entitled “The Life Work Of Juan Diaz” It might be a little macabre for some tastes but it’s a beautiful little story that stays in your mind after watching. On a very sad note, Pina Pellicer, the Mexican actress who played the wife of Juan Diaz, committed suicide at the age of thirty.
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The show’s adaptation of Bradbury’s very creepy short story “The Jar” was also very good. They did five Bradbury adaptations: barebonesez.blogspot.com/2012/11/ray-bradbury-on-tv-part-eight-alfred.html
 
Arizona_Mike said:
The show’s adaptation of Bradbury’s very creepy short story “The Jar” was also very good. They did five Bradbury adaptations: barebonesez.blogspot.com/2012/11/ray-bradbury-on-tv-part-eight-alfred.html
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Yes! I remember The Jar! That was a good one.
I also remember one about a killer on the loose and a woman at her house with her nurse and it was night and the power was out I think.
That one really scared me but I don’t remember how it ended or all the details. Anyone know which episode I am talking about?
 
The show’s adaptation of Bradbury’s very creepy short story “The Jar” was also very good. They did five Bradbury adaptations: barebonesez.blogspot.com/2012…ht-alfred.html
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Huh! Right after posting the above, I went to the next bookmarked blog I follow and found this new article on the TV show, and Hitchcock’s Catholicism on Crisis Magazine: crisismagazine.com/2014/h…inal-macguffin
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Weird, huh?
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Thanks very much for those links, the second one especially.
I also remember one about a killer on the loose and a woman at her house with her nurse and it was night and the power was out I think.
That one really scared me but I don’t remember how it ended or all the details. Anyone know which episode I am talking about?
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A few years ago I purchased some DVDs of The Hitchcock Hour and Alfred Hitchcock Presents from a dealer who doesn’t seem to be trading any more. They were just off-air recordings which had been broadcast on Hallmark and they are in no particular order, but included among the episodes is “The Life Work Of Juan Diaz” and the episode to which you are referring. I tried to find the episode earlier today but was not able to. You’re right, it really scared me when I watched it and there is a really unsettling twist at the end which I won’t remind you of in case you ever watch it again.🙂
 
dividus said:
Thanks very much for those links, the second one especially.

A few years ago I purchased some DVDs of The Hitchcock Hour and Alfred Hitchcock Presents from a dealer who doesn’t seem to be trading any more. They were just off-air recordings which had been broadcast on Hallmark and they are in no particular order, but included among the episodes is “The Life Work Of Juan Diaz” and the episode to which you are referring. I tried to find the episode earlier today but was not able to. You’re right, it really scared me when I watched it and there is a really unsettling twist at the end which I won’t remind you of in case you ever watch it again.🙂
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Do you by any chance remember the title of the episode?
I remember there was a twist at the end. I just don’t remember the details.
 
7_Sorrows said:
Yes! I remember The Jar! That was a good one.
I also remember one about a killer on the loose and a woman at her house with her nurse and it was night and the power was out I think.
That one really scared me but I don’t remember how it ended or all the details. Anyone know which episode I am talking about?
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Funny that you should mention that, I have an odd history with that episode.

It was titled “An Unlocked Window” (you can view the whole episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=W7P-Psa8r8U), about an undercover female police officer who poses as a nurse to catch a serial killer who is preying on nurses. When it first aired on February 15, 1965, I was 6 years old. I was watching it in a darkened living room with my grandmother, and the suspense nearly drove me crazy. As the twist in the ending was revealed, it scared me so much I ran headlong out of the room and hid in, or possibly under, my bed. After that, my folks had a conversation in which it was decided that I was too young to watch Mr. Hitchcock’s show. I had nightmares about that ending that recurred over and over for months.

One night later in the year, I woke up and got out of my bed to ask for a glass of water. In my pajamas, I tiptoed into the darkened living room, which was lit only by our black and white television set that my grandmother was sitting and watching, like before. Like a recurring bad dream where you know what is about to happen just before it happens, I peeked at the TV and saw the exact same ending sequence (in summer rerun), right at the climax, that had freaked me out the last time. I screamed at the top of my lungs and woke the rest of the house up.

The house that is shown in the exterior is the same house (on the Universal Studios backlot) that is used for Norman Bates’ house in “Psycho,” incidentally.
 
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