and the British release of Strangers is even better than the US.
I think Strangers was the combination of everything Hitchcock did prior (and after for that matter)
and the pairing of the overpowering Bruno (Robert Walker), with the mild Guy (Farley Granger),
and some of the classic scenes (of many), and the outright sex (which might not even be allowable today in prude 2012).
but Vertigo is almost as good.
Bernard Herrmann used his own score in Vertigo for one of his last, "Obsession" by DePalma, which was "almost" Vertigo redone (til the end)
And last years Oscar winner "The Artist" used the love theme in tribute (and gave credit to) the theme.
In my opinion the best film scorer ever.
and of course, Mel Brooks' High Anxiety used many Hitch films, but especially Vertigo.
As I am not the biggest Jimmy Stewart fan, I do think Cary Grant or Gary Cooper or John Garfield, or Monty Clift and a few others could have made Vertigo even better. But I know that's arguable by most others.
It always bothered me in Rear Window that Jimmy and Grace Kelly were a couple.
Cary and Grace wonderful together, but Jimmy and Grace???
and another favorite is "I confess".
back to Vertigo-that was one of the handful of Hitch films that for years and years was never released on video or tv, as Hitch and then his family held the rights and waited to release it.
I always wondered why Citizen Kane was considered the best. And Welles burnt out quickly and cannot in anyway compare to Hitchcock.
Antenna TV is running the 1/2 hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents, currently in the NJ area
five or six days a week (2 a day).
A friend in NYC says the hour long ones are also being run on another small cable station, those never have been released officially on dvd.
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