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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI have just started to watch Vertigo (1958), I have never watched the whole movie before.
I have seen the beginning and the end but not the middle.
I did see The Rope, what a strange movie.
The Man That Saw to Much is interesting, now I know where the song came from.
Of course I have seen Rear Window about 1000 times.
Hitchcock could make a interesting movie.
Any more Hitchcock movies worth watching.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)The Birds
Psycho?
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I don't think I have seen North by Northwest.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)North by Northwest is one of Hitchcock's best.
Might want to give The Trouble with Harry a watch if you like black comedies.
Oh, you've already seen "Harry". Nevermind.
PETRUS
(3,678 posts)Among my favorites and not yet mentioned on the thread.
valerief
(53,235 posts)PETRUS
(3,678 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)texanwitch
(18,705 posts)That was a good one.
valerief
(53,235 posts)I really, really enjoyed the quiet, dark humor of The Trouble With Harry.
Rear Window is a gem. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a lot of fun.
Hell, just spin a Hitchcock roulette wheel. You can't go wrong with any of them!
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)That is another one I have only seen parts of.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Lots of fun.
Trivia note: The woman who plays Cary Grant's mother was only two years older than he was.
valerief
(53,235 posts)older than Laurence Harvey.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Cropduster plane swoops him.
There's a literal cliffhanger at the end of the flick. Lots of fun, especially if you like trains.
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)was another Hitchcock movie starring Kim Novak and James Stewart. I wonder whatever became of Kim Novak. I also remember her in Picnic with William Holden.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I remember seeing that at the movies when I was little.
Kim Novak was so so cool in that movie.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Looked like the whole town was in that movie.
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)I loved that movie. If I ever have a chance to see it again, I'll pay special attention to the babies.
Susan Strasberg played Kim's character's younger tomboy sister. I always liked her, and I was sad when she died in 1999 of breast cancer.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)I could relate to the railroad in the backyard scenes.
I can't remember which baby my friend was.
There was lots of kids in the movie at the picnic area.
All I can remember was that she was with her Mother in the movie shot.
nuxvomica
(12,455 posts)It would make a good double-feature with Vertigo.
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)thought it was.
Come to think of it, though, in many ways it wasn't really Hitchcockesque.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)a 1975 made-for-TV movie about some bizarre events that happened on board a yacht in the Bermuda Triangle.
frogmarch
(12,160 posts)I think the last screen film I saw her in was Jeanne Eagles.
Edited to add: Apparently she came out of retirement to do the TV movie. Anyway, I read in an article today that after Vertigo she and her husband, whom she's still married to, moved to Montana and started a horse ranch. I guess they're still there.
RILib
(862 posts)Long time marriage to a vet, lives on a ranch. It sounds satisfying and cozy.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)And pretty much quit acting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Novak
Bucky
(54,087 posts)zanana1
(6,135 posts)I saw "High Anxiety" a long time ago, but I still remember it. Fun.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Paladin
(28,280 posts)"Vertigo" is my personal favorite---you don't know whether to laugh or cry at Jimmy Stewart's character, standing in that bell tower at the end....
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Jimmy Stewart could play a weird guy if he wanted to.
Paladin
(28,280 posts)If you don't get goosebumps from that scene toward the end of the movie where Kim Novak "reappears," you need to check your vital signs.....
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Enjoy the beautiful photography. Even the begginning credits part is enjoyable to me: That haunting music really stays in your head and is the perfect background for the late 50's visual abstract lightshow art.
mulsh
(2,959 posts)Joseph Cotton plays the creepy uncle.
Filmed in Santa Rosa, CA. Quite a few locals made it into the film including the girl who played the younger sister.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Shadow of a Doubt: A teenage girl has always looked forward to visits from her Uncle Charlie, but she begins to suspect that he's a serial killer.
Strangers on a Train: Two men who end up sitting together on a train both have annoying family members. One of them says it would be fun to trade murders, since the murderer would have no obvious connection to the victim. The second man takes it as a joke---until his annoying wife is murdered.
Two of the pictures Hitchcock made in Britain:
The Lady Vanishes: A young woman traveling on a train through Switzerland strikes up a conversation with an older woman who disappears. No one else remembers seeing her.
The 39 Steps: A man is falsely accused of a crime, runs for it, and in a complicated series of events, ends up having to evade capture and find the bad guys while handcuffed to a woman.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Thanks for all the info guys.
I remember seeing Gaslight, can't remember who is in it.
mucifer
(23,584 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)playing a conniving maid
ceile
(8,692 posts)She could be deliciously evil...
mulsh
(2,959 posts)you can probably find it at a cult video site. After seeing the original version I can't watch what Hollywood did to this story. even with Ingrid Bergman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_%281940_film%29
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)They add a lot to the atmosphere, especially the screeching strings in the famous shower scene in [1]Psycho.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Having the violins scream for Leigh was inspired.
mucifer
(23,584 posts)texanwitch
(18,705 posts)Poor Jimmy.
edbermac
(15,948 posts)The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) - Hitch called this his first true 'Hitchcock' picture
Young and Innocent (1937) - light fluff; climatic scene at a hotel ballroom has one of his greatest camera shots.
Rope (1948) - shot in ten minute takes
Marnie (1964) - interesting to compare with Vertigo, man attracted to woman because she's a thief
Frenzy (1972) - scenes between detective and his gourmet cook wife are a real hoot
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,748 posts)It was Hitchcock's last movie. Funny, black humor, clever plot twists.
It was a lot of fun.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)It was his favorite
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)in that movie is located. I still do live in Santa Rosa, just over on the other side of town now. It's always a trip to watch that movie and see what my town looked like in the 40's, I can recognize a few places and that's it. Everything else is totally different.
I've also seen the schoolhouse used in The Birds. It's still standing, and has a big cardboard profile of Alfred Hitchcock in the window. It's about a 40 minute drive away.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)But Santa Rosa is 160,000 people today. It ain't so small anymore.
Nevertheless, I'll check out that book. It sounds interesting.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)It is very interesting
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Amazing movie.
Rhiannon12866
(206,420 posts)I saw that on TV when I was a kid, don't even know if anyone watched it with me. That movie scared me so badly that it didn't just affect me for a day or a week, can still remember now how terrified I was...
valerief
(53,235 posts)Lots of suspense and tension.
RILib
(862 posts)We don't seem to have actors and actresses like the old days. Just imho. Barbara Stanwick, Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, James Mason.
valerief
(53,235 posts)ceile
(8,692 posts)Some of his that aren't shown often, but are equally good are Foreign Correspondent and Torn Curtain. To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest are good fun- love Cary Grant!!
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I think Vertigo is my favourite, but I also really like North by Northwest, and Rear Window (but you've seen that). Honestly, I don't think I've seen a bad film he directed.
derby378
(30,252 posts)I've seen High Anxiety, though, which just makes me a bit odd. I need to curl up in front of the tube sometime soon and watch this.
Didn't some respectable critics put Vertigo on the same level as Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind as a candidate for best movie of all time?
sarge43
(28,946 posts)If not
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Is "Dial M for Murder". I had to watch it twice to catch most of the nuances - and there are still new bits I notice every time I see it.
"The Trouble with Harry" is great fun and another with twists that you may not notice the first few times you see it.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)There are several whole movies.
Something for a winter's night with the lights out.