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On Jul 16, 6:56 am, "Raja, The Great" <zepflo...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 16, 5:49 am, Scott <scott...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > "I have watched all these movies...except The Birds,
> > I like all of them. I am not a very big fan of either North By
> > Northwest (a James Bond type movie which I didn't find too thrilling)
> > or Vertigo (somewhat cold, I couldn't sympathize with any character).
> > I like the early ones better."
>
> > NxNW inspired the James Bond film canon.  the Bond series was born in
> > NxNW.
>
> > i saw Vertigo recently.  it is amazingly absurd and unbelievable, yet
> > i think it is on a short list of great American movies.  no one has
> > really captured the futility of believing quite like Hitchcock's V.
> > Jimmy Stewart is also excellent; there's not a wrong note with any of
> > his lines.
>
> I think Jimmy was good. He does this desperate kind of roles very
> well. Even in Rear Window, he was at his best, when he was in
> desperate situations. But I did not like Kim Novak. She was very
> wooden.
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> > a forgotten film from his early days is 'Young and Innocent'.  it is
> > solid.
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> > my favorite AH movies are probably:
>
> > 1. Notorious
> > 2. Rear Window
> > 3. Vertigo
> > 4. the Lady Vanishes
> > 5. Strangers on a Train
> > 6. Psycho
> > 7. Shadow of a Doubt
> > 8. N x NW
> > 9.  39 Steps
> > 10. Young and Innocent
>
> Great list, what about Rebecca? I haven't seen Young and Innocent. I
> like it that you have The Lady Vanishes that high. It is a great
> movie. What about Dial M For Murder? Have you seen Rope or Lifeboat?
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Raja, The Great wrote:
> A nice article... I have watched all these movies...except The Birds,
> I like all of them. I am not a very big fan of either North By
> Northwest (a James Bond type movie which I didn't find too thrilling)
> or Vertigo (somewhat cold, I couldn't sympathize with any character).
> I like the early ones better. Unlike most people I think his best era
> was from 1938 - The Lady Vanishes to 1946 - Notorious). But I do like
> some of his latter movies like Dial M For Murder and Psycho very much.
> I would replace The Birds with Rebecca or Shadow Of A Doubt, both are
> absolute masterpieces in my opinion. I also like Lifeboat, his most
> underrated movie.
>
> http://classicfilm.about.com/od/actorsanddirectors/tp/Best-Hitchcock-Movie-List.htm
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Alfred Hitchcock had a long, productive career making fine movies that
> all bore his distinctive trademarks, all including a cameo by the
> portly "Master of Suspense" himself. Some of them were masterpieces;
> all of them are entertaining. Here's a list of nine of the best Alfred
> Hitchcock movies.
>
> 1. 'The 39 Steps' - 1935
> Made during his early career in Britain, The 39 Steps is stamped with
> Hitchcock movie hallmarks - an innocent man on the run, unwillingly
> accompanied by an icy blonde who's not sure she can trust him. It's an
> involving espionage mystery that jaunts across the streets of London
> to the Scottish countryside, with a tight plot and clever dialogue.
> There's good chemistry between Robert Donat as the plucky Canadian
> hero and Madeleine Carroll literally handcuffed together. Donat is
> delightful when he is mistaken for a political candidate and has to
> give a rousing, impromptu speech - a scene Hitchcock would repeat in
> subsequent films.
>
> 2. 'The Lady Vanishes' - 1938
> Suppose you're chatting with a charming old lady on a train. You doze
> off, - and the lady vanishes. What's more, no one on the train will
> believe that she was ever there, That's the problem Hitchcock sets
> plucky Margaret Lockwood and fellow traveler Michael Redgrave, the
> only other passenger willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. A
> great cast with Dame May Whitty as the disappearing Miss Froy and a
> stable of terrific comic English actors rounds out the mystery, and
> the fun. There's always sly or macabre humor in Hitchcock films, but
> The Lady Vanishes may be his most amusing movie - one of the last he
> made in England, and a box-office success that helped ensure his
> welcome in Hollywood.
>
> 3. 'Notorious' - 1946
> Tense espionage thriller with Hitchcock's favorite actor, Cary Grant,
> as an upright American agent and Ingrid Bergman as the daughter of a
> German spy. Bergman - at heart an American patriot - is a notorious
> party girl and a drinker. Grant recruits her as an agent to infiltrate
> a Nazi plot in Rio, and of course falls in love with her. Despite a
> passionate kissing scene that runs three minutes, they can't quite get
> their act together. Cary fails to claim her, and lets her go off to
> serve her country in the arms of the chief local Nazi, Claude Rains.
> Terrific sexual tension and nail-biting suspense, along with great
> examples of Hitchcock "McGuffins" (in this case a key and some wine
> bottles) that serve both as plot devices and symbols.
>
> 4. 'Strangers on a Train' - 1951
> Yet another chance Hitchcock meeting of strangers on a train - this
> one with a strong homoerotic subtext and a particularly nasty murder.
> Professional tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets idle rich
> boy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), who turns out to know quite a bit
> about Guy - enough to propose a bizarre double murder. He'll get rid
> of Guy's coarse and cheating wife, and Guy will do away with Bruno's
> domineering dad, who's withholding the trust fund. The idea is that
> they'll each have alibis and escape detection. Walker is truly creepy;
> there are some unforgettable camera angles and set shots; and a
> terrifying climax with an out-of control carousel. Thrilling stuff.
>
> 5. 'Rear Window' - 1954
> No trains here, but Hitchcockian voyeurism and obsession are on full
> display. Photographer Jimmy Stewart is laid up with a broken leg,
> spying on his fellow New Yorker in a courtyard surrounded by apartment
> houses. Seen from his rear window, they're funny, lonely, lively and
> possibly deadly, in the case of the mysterious traveling salesman
> whose sickly, nagging wife suddenly disappears. Stewart enlists the
> help of his gorgeous girlfriend, elegant Grace Kelly as a Park Avenue
> fashion model/designer, to solve the mystery. A bizarrely original
> plot, ingenious set and heart-pounding suspense highlight Rear Window,
> along with a fascinating look at the open windows of New York
> apartment life in the days before air conditioning.
> Read Review
>
> 6. 'Vertigo' - 1958
> I favor North by Northwest, but many see Vertigo, a brooding
> exploration of obsession, failed nerve and lost love as Hitchcock's
> masterpiece movie. It's filmed in a dreamlike haze on the oddly empty
> streets of San Francisco, as Jimmy Stewart pursues Kim Novak, another
> elegant Hitchcock blonde, who seems to slip in and out of her dead
> great-grandmother's persona. Here again is the central Hitchcock motif
> of a pair of lovers who are made for each other, but can't quite come
> to a place of trust, and for good reason. The plot's a little iffy,
> but that's not the point in this almost surreal tale. You'll find
> yourself thinking back on its slow, dreamy scenes for days after you
> see it.
>
> 7. 'North by Northwest' - 1959
> This one's got just about every Hitchcock theme stuffed masterfully
> inside. A "chance" meeting on a train, mistaken identity, a man
> falsely accused, an icy blonde, a little voyeurism, a touch of
> homoeroticism, a woman sent to seduce a spy for love of her country
> and locations that range from Madison Avenue to Mount Rushmore. Whew!
> Its all wildly entertaining, with Cary Grant as the impossibly
> debonair, quick-thinking hero, Eva-Marie Saint as the ice-blonde femme
> fatale, James Mason as the dastardly spy and Martin Landau as his too-
> devoted henchman. Witty dialogue, a breakneck pace and a microfilm
> McGuffin. People, what are you waiting for? Go watch this movie. And
> if you've already seen it, go watch it again!
> Read Review
>
> 8. 'Psycho' - 1960
> Not Hitchcock's best film, but perhaps his most famous. Shocking in
> its day, it seems tame by modern horror movie standards, but it can
> still pack a jolt or two. Janet Leigh is a comely criminal who rips
> off her boss and makes a very bad decision to spend a night at the
> Bates Motel. There she meets Norman Bates, mild-mannered momma's boy
> and serious psycho. He likes to spy on motel guests (voyeurism again)
> and gets a little agitated, which leads to the infamous shower scene.
> With its famous screeching-violin score by Bernard Herrman, it seems a
> bit campy now, but countless horror movies owe a great deal to this
> classic Hitchcock film.
>
> 9. 'The Birds' - 1963
> Bizarre and absolutely unforgettable, Hitchcock's The Birds is the
> story of an inexplicable avian attack on a quiet seaside town. For no
> apparent reason, the birds attack kids at birthday parties, innocent
> farmers and school teachers in vicious, mindless waves. While it's
> tempting to see it as an ecological fable, the film really has more to
> do with primal human forces. It's Hitchcock's trademark exploration of
> men with strong mothers and the relative attractions of icy blondes
> like Tippi Hedren versus earthy beauties like Suzanne Pleshette.
> Trained birds, mechanical birds and animated birds make for
> spectacular scenes of menace, and the vision of crows settling
> silently on a school playground, one by one, will stay with you.


Notorious and Strangers on a train my favourites, haven't seen all of
them though.