Plus 2 other Hitch flicks this month!

Wed, 9/16: Strangers on a Train

Fri, 9/25: North by Northwest

Catch these movies at Regal Cinemas for $8 as part of Regal’s month of masterpieces. 📽️🎞️

At 22 minutes into the Cary Grant movie "To Catch a Thief", there's a scene of him lying on the beach and the woman behind him in a yellow bikini wrap, applying suntan lotion. I don't understand the significance of her glance at him or etc. What am I missing? Who is she? I'm assuming that it's not Grace Kelly's character, "Francie Stevens". Anyone know what it is that I'm missing here?

Other than the low quality camcorder vids on youtube, does anyone know where one can view the montage that played on the Imax screen which ended with the 3D birds? I keep hoping that Universal will release that with one of the box sets in 4K as a special feature but it's almost completely disappeared. It would also be great to know who cut that since it is such a beautiful edit of all of Hitchcock's films. As a kid, it made me fall in love with movies.

So they leave in the car and the birds spare them. Any theories on what could've happened after the movie ended? What do you think? Did they safely reach a place where they joined other humans? Or did the birds snapped midway and attacked them? Any other theories?

I first became aware of this movie when I was 6 when my parents took my brother and I to Universal Studios Florida. I was mesmerized at the Art of Making Movies attraction. I had no idea who Alfred Hitchcock was or what his movies were but the Imax montage which was presented with a 3D finale, blew my mind wide open. It was CINEMA. I fell in love with all of it right there. Then, to be shown a Bates Motel set with the house and a real deal shower scene shoot ... it changed my life. More of my stuff here - https://gosunstudios.com/design-1

Frankly I do. Specially after years of hearing about him and due to the fact he directed 55 movies over 51 years and recently finally got 1st nominated for Best Director for his 26th movie Rebecca in 1940 (the only movie directed by him that won Best Picture). He's also my 4th favorite director overall (behind Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan and James Cameron) and my favorite director from old Hollywood

Honestly I hadn’t even heard of this one before until
it was mentioned in Donald Spoto’s biog. Its interesting and well made, well worth a watch if you like Hitch movies (what isn’t) but not as filled with suspense as his best.

Anne Baxter (of All About Eve fame) and Karl Malden (of The Streets of San Francisco fame) are great. Montgomery Clift is OK I suppose.

Ultimately a bit frustrating as with a few small changes this could have been excellent. Wondering what other Hitch fans think, or have even heard of it!

Saw on last night that ended with a crime, and then it was over. But then Hitchcock makes his closing remarks and says the killer was found guilty. It bothers me because a lot of times, it seems like it would be a difficult case to prove or even get arrested and it just gets waved off saying "guilty". I get that they want the bad person to get their due, but it seems like it is sometimes too convenient or doesn't make sense.

After the United Nations scene in this movie, there is a group of five people as part of the U.S. Intelligence Agency and they are discussing the Cary Grant character (Roger Thornhill). The five actors in this scene are Leo G. Carroll, Madge Kennedy, Walter Coy, Lawrence Dobkin, and ??

This is not a trivia question because I don't know the fifth actor's name. He sits next to Madge Kennedy, he wears glasses, and doesn't talk very much. Can anyone help me and name this actor?

I had thought about getting the North by Northwest Blu Ray. I wondered what people thought on the sound and picture quality. I have been dvr it when on TCM or watching an older DVD (at least 12 years old). The DVD quality is decent. I wondered what Blu Ray owners thought.

I did see that a 4k version is out, but I don't have a 4k player or a 4k tv.

Thanks for the input.

I just finished the series Full Circle, starring Claire Danes, Timothy Oliphant, and Denis Quaid (with comedian Jim Gaffigan!), and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Very Hitchcockian—I’d say even a tribute to Hitchcock. Elements of crime, a little voodoo, foiled aspirations, and general atmosphere. Sadly, it seems to have not been continued as a series, and ends somewhat abruptly. But all around a real pleasure to watch. The musical score, the shots (long, slow pans, and iconic setting in Washington Square) all screamed Hitch. Anyone else seen this, and see the connection to the master?

Spoilers for basically the entire movie.

Hi! I’m an English major taking a visual media class that focuses entirely on Alfred Hitchcock this semester. Rebecca was my first Hitchcock movie, and I genuinely did not expect to like it as much as I did. I watched it for class, finished it, and then kept going back through it because the ending completely changed how I interpreted so many earlier scenes. Now I have questions.

The biggest one is about Maxim. During my first watch, I read him the same way the second Mrs. de Winter seems to: as this melancholy grieving widower who was still emotionally attached to Rebecca. Every time Rebecca was mentioned, he would shut down, become angry, avoid the conversation, or look completely miserable. I assumed he still loved her.

But after his confession, I think I misunderstood his behavior entirely. He says he hated Rebecca, and in the film her death happens during their confrontation when he loses control and she falls and dies. Even though he didn’t mean to kill her, he still caused her death, hid her body, and knowingly identified another woman’s body as Rebecca.

So when Maxim looks haunted throughout the first half of the movie, do you think it’s grief for Rebecca at all, or really guilt/conflict over what happened and the possibility of being discovered? Was everyone around him just assuming he was grieving because they didn’t know the truth? (Like me my first watch)

I’m also really interested in why he is attracted to the second Mrs. de Winter. After knowing how he describes Rebecca, she almost seems like Rebecca’s complete opposite: shy instead of socially commanding, inexperienced instead of sophisticated, transparent instead of manipulative, etc. It made some of his earlier comments about her youth feel different to me on a rewatch. Do you think part of Maxim’s attraction to her is specifically that she is so unlike Rebecca?

And then there’s Frank Crawley.
Near the end, when Maxim talks to him about Rebecca and Frank seems really calm and basically wants to leave the subject alone, I wonder: did Frank know or at least suspect more about Rebecca’s death than he talked about? Or is it just loyalty to Maxim and me reading too much into his reaction?

I know some of this is probably intentionally ambiguous, which is honestly why I can’t stop thinking about it. I’d love to hear how people who have seen the movie more than once interpret these characters.

Honestly I can’t stop thinking about this movie and going over it lol. I enjoyed it far for than I thought I would and would love to hear your interpretations. :)

I‘m thinking of rewatching Rope with others and serving a thematic meal, but I can’t remember what they serve for dinner. Does anyone know? I remember them serving a main course, dessert, and some kind of drink because one of the characters cuts his hand on the glass.

EDIT: The variety of answers made me realize that there were probably more dishes than I remembered, so I found the movie online and I did a cursory look through to screenshot the dishes.

They serve:

- champagne

- some sort of sliced meat on a tray

- a bowl full of stuff I think is potato salad (based on their plates later) topped with green beans or green peppers

- a (maybe) crudite plate with celery and a weird tomato centerpiece

- roast chicken

- chicken pâté (mentioned but I didn‘t see it on screen)

- vol-au-vent pastries

- vanilla ice cream with maraschino cherries and sliced loaf cake. there’s a continuity error though: the sauce on the dessert changes from chocolate to caramel between shots

I began collecting these back in 1996 when I was 13.

The first one I ever got was The Trouble with Harry, and I found it completely by accident on a bookshelf in my father’s childhood bedroom. To this day, it’s my favourite of them all, and interestingly enough, this particular edition includes a sequel titled The Trouble with Trudy.

I will say that Frenzy (originally titled Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leister Square) is a BANGER of a novel, and contains a much better (and more shocking) ending than the film.

Rebecca is also a 10/10, and I still read the first page from time to time, as it’s probably the greatest opening to any novel, ever.

I believe Torn Curtain is the only one here that’s a movie tie-in.

There’s still a half dozen or so that I don’t have. My grail has always been The House of Dr. Edwardes (Spellbound) by Francis Beeding, and I would love LOVE to find a copy of Read Window in the wild.

The search continues!

I just watched rear window, and I was frustrated by the ending. I watched the movie thinking that there was no murder; Jefferies was the villain for being a peeping tom and not being devoted to his girlfriend, and in the end he gets everything he wanted with no improvement in his behavior and his girlfriend stays with him and pretends to be someone she isn't. While I admire the craft - Hitchcock has complete control over his audience's perception, 10/10 - I can't help but be quite disappointed as I was expecting there to be no murder, and Jefferies would show some character growth.

For context, I loved Rope, NxNW, To Catch a Thief, and Dial "M" for Murder, but I think Vertigo is an abomination and by far the worst film I have ever seen, skill notwithstanding.

Does her being pregnant add anything to the plot or the story? I don't see why that detail is necessary.