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"I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of t

Advantages: Classic Hitchcock - I can say no more !!
Disadvantages: None

...review with a quote from the Master himself, Alfred Hitchcock: "When a new Hitchcock film appears, the public and critics sit back at the start and say to themselves, 'Let's see him scare me.' My job is to get them up on the edge of their seats, and to keep them there. It gets more difficult all the time because one must find new ways to surprise an audience. Any time a viewer of one of my films can say to himself, 'I knew that was coming,' I've ...
...'The Birds' was based on the story of the same name written by Daphne Du Maurier - this was Hitchcock's third major film based on the author's works (after Jamaica Inn (1939) and Rebecca (1940). In the original story the birds were attacking in the English countryside, not in the Calafornian town used in the film. This film shows Hitchcock at his best as 'Master of Suspense' and covers a five day period from Friday to Tuesday. The film starts with ...

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Torn Curtain - Was It Really Torn?

Advantages: It's Hitchcock
Disadvantages: But not at his best

Torn Curtain is an Alfred Hitchcock produced and directed film released in 1966 which starred Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as Professor Michael Armstrong and his assistant/fiancé Sarah Sherman with support from Wolfgang Kieling, Lila Kedrova, Hansjorg Felmy, Ludwig Donath, Carolyn Conwell, Gisela Fischer and Gunter Strack. Professor Armstrong is engaged to his assistant Sarah Sherman and the films starts off with them on board a ship to Copenhagen ...
...his usual acting prowess in Torn Curtain. I did feel that the plot had some glaring holes in it from start to finish. I didn't understand the significance of Professor Manfred going with Sarah to the bookshop to collect the Professor's book as he doesn't even look at the book or try to. Whilst watching a Hitchcock film, one tries to find hidden meaning in so many scenes and strangely enough there just weren't many hidden meanings in Torn Curtain. ...

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It Could Have Been Grace Kelly

Advantages: one of Hitchcock's most intriguing films
Disadvantages: some of the scenes are blatantly faked

Marnie is one of my favourite Hitchcock movies. It stars the beautiful Tippi Hedren as Marnie Edgar and the gorgeous Sean Connery as Mark Rutland, with support from Diane Baker as Lil and Louise Latham as Bernice Edgar, and was released in 1964. The script was written by Jay Presson Allen and the book (of the same name) from which it was inspired was written by Winston Graham. Alan Napier appears as Mark's father (remember him? He was Alfred in the ...
...PLOT = Marnie is a compulsive thief moving from company to company working in clerical roles and biding her time till she can access company safes and steal money. With a large part of the money she buys expensive gifts for her mother, Bernice, who doesn't seem to like her very much. Marnie gets a job at Rutland & Co unaware that the boss, an eligible widower, Mark Rutland was a customer of a previous victim of hers and has hired her deliberately ...

anonymili 19.08.2006 · Read full review
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The classic that is 'Psycho'

Advantages: a great hitchcock movie from the 60's
Disadvantages: none really

...time, (there were 3 more psycho movies with Perkins as Norman and even a remake of the original in 1998 with Vince Vaughn as Norman) and, as in most of his movie, he makes a brief appearance near the beginning of this one too… watch out for a bloke in a wacky cowboy hat, (but blink and you'll miss him..). The acting is good enough to keep the movie going, (this was the 1960's remember), with all the characters doing there best to create the terrifying ...
...his all as the totally insane motel manager with a strange fetish for wearing the odd dress or two… (but not just any old dress)… and Leigh does a great job in her short role as Marion Crane (and her soon to be classic shower scene). Although the ending of the movie is a little predictable it still comes as a bit of a shock when the truth is revealed, giving a new meaning to close family relationships and mother knows best quotations. The shock ...

blissman70 23.10.2008 · Read full review
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Norman Bates - Psychopath Analysis

Advantages: Directing by Hitchcock.
Disadvantages: It's kind of frightening.

‘You know what I think? I think that we're all in our private traps — clamped in them — and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and claw but only at the air, only at each other. And for all of it, we never budge an inch.’ Norman Bates is the main character in Hitchcock’s movie ‘Psycho’. At first, he seems just the ‘boy-next-door’ type of guy, who owns a cheap motel and lives with his mother. Only that the mother doesn’t exist anymore, she’s only ...
...he poisoned her, he decides to compensate her absence, by saving her body, preserving it and even trying to talk in her voice. But can he handle the all too different personalities? He fells in love with a client, Marion, but soon, the Mother’s personality intercedes and so Marion ends up by being stabbed with a kitchen knife while taking a shower. That’s when we understand that the Mother’s personality took over quite often, leaving Norman lost ...

DorothyHollins 19.07.2009 · Read full review
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