What is your favorite Hitchcock film?
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
United States
March 18, 2007 11:51pm CST
Once I only had one, but know I have two. They are tied. My firstis Rear Window.I love everything about this film. The set, the plot, the cast and most of all the dialogue.And my second is North By Northwest.Everything I love about Rear Window, I love more in North By Northwest.How about you, what's your favorite(s)?
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@undercapricon (29)
• India
5 Jul 08
Trouble with Harry is my favourite.See, it is an underrrated masterpiece. Just like absurd dramas of 1950s it is an absurd cinema. One of the rare pieces of its kind.
@undercapricon (29)
• India
5 Jul 08
Infact I am not a capricorn. I took this name from a film by Alfred Hitchcock called "Under capricorn" starring Ingrid Bergman. Hitchcock had made the name 'master of suspense', but when he tried to change his genre the ayudience and critics attacked it. Under Capricon was such a film, not a thriller.But still a good film.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
6 Jul 08
I love Ingrid too.But I prefer Cary in North By Northwest than in Notorious and Ingrid in Gaslight.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
11 Jul 08
Good Luck.When you get to see it, tell me what you think.
@Angelwriter (1954)
• United States
4 Jan 08
I like one that doesn't get a lot of attention. Shadow of a Doubt. I think it's one of his best, and Uncle Charlie is one of the creepiest villains. It's really amazing to watch Joseph Cotten in that, and then watch him as a romantic lead in other films.
Another film I like is Notorious. I prefer that Cary Grant/Hitchcock pairing to North by Northwest. I'm also fond of Vertigo.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
6 Jan 08
Shadow of a Doubt is Hitch's favorite film.I like it too. I didn't like Notorious. I have tried and tried to get into it , but I can't.
@undercapricon (29)
• India
5 Jul 08
Shadow of the doubt is the most domestic of hitchcock's films.And Notorious is one of the dark and disturbing of Hitchcock's films. catry grant's charecteristic humour is absent in this film.
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@pndimonium (146)
• United States
2 Apr 07
The Birds - I can watch over and over. I guess it's growing up in the Bay Area, CA and how they never figured out what happened to make the birds attack. It's still left open for discussion...
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
3 Apr 07
I wonder if Hitchcock would tell us if he were alive?
@filmbuff (2909)
• United States
1 May 07
Not an easy question to answer, but I think my favorite would have to be The Birds. I just love that movie. There is a remake of it in devolpment right now, but I just can't fathom how better special effects would even come close to comparing to the direction of Hitchcock the master himself.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
1 May 07
Say it ain't so. A remake. Why? What makes the original so terrifing is that Hitch used real birds in so scenes and mecanical ones in other scenes and you can't tell which is which.You know Peta and the Humanae Society won't let the producers use real birds these days.And if you know that all the birds are fake, then why would you be scared? I am very hard on re-makes. Especially when you can go to Blockbusters or better yet let Net Flix bring you a better flim, the original.
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@filmbuff (2909)
• United States
2 May 07
I totally agree with you about remakes. The only problem is that the remakes seem to make a ton of cash, because there is a ready made audience of people who will want to watch it. That being said, so many of todays generation won't watch older movies, especially if they are in black and white. I'm sure the birds in the remake will probably be mostly CG. The beauty of the Hitchcock films is the physcological terror involved, not the visual that will probably be at the forefront of the remake.
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@master_renn (153)
• United States
28 Apr 07
Hitchcock is the MASTER, I find it hard to pick just one movie, I have seen and own so many. Rope is one of my favorites if not the one I enjoy must. All shot in one set with moving wall. The risk was taken and it paid of big time. Most people don't know it because it isn't one of his more popular films. If given the chance all should see it and look at how film used to be made. PLOT, ACTING, SETS everything it is an encredible film. Watch and enjoy all.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
28 Apr 07
I love Rope. It is a masterpiece. It has all you want from a Hitchcock film. Suspense, great characters, gripping plot, a little humor, Alfred cameo, everything.
@ScarletAlston (2693)
• United States
19 Mar 07
my two favorites have to be 1. Psycho..that movie was just creepy..especially when hitchcock was talking in the beginning..2. Vertigo..I didn't think that movie was going to be good..but it actually had my heart pounding toward the end..
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Vertigo is one of those films that creeps up on you.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
20 Mar 07
I've seen it. Classic. Not only is it shot in long scenes, it takes place in one room.It has the feel of a play.One of my favorites.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
24 Mar 07
To be honest I've only seen two of his films with the most famous being Psycho and The Birds, I found The Birds having a sudden cut off ending not to my liking, there was no ending to it and when I first watched it and the closing credits appeared I was left feeling cheated. Pyscho is the best but only for the infamous shower scene.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
24 Mar 07
Psycho sneaked up on me. The first time I saw it, it didn't scare me, it was the second time it got to me. I have only seen The Birds once. It was okay.I know what you mean. it just ends, it doesn't give you closure.
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
20 Mar 07
Well I'm not a big Hitchcock fan but I did like Psycho, not only the original but the many sequals of it. It could really get you going and give you the chills. He was a master at what he did. I did enjoy the Birds and many other movies he did but I also liked some of the remakes I have seen done. Ones that were done much later but still true to his stories. They did a very good job in it with Suspicion and also Shadow of A Doubt. Both were excellent movies.
@tallpaulno44a (1574)
• United States
19 Mar 07
Gosh that's a tough one. I think my favorite is North by Northwest with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. So many plot twists. The acting and action is superb. I love the chase across Mt. Rushmore. And the final scene where the two lead characters are about to consummate their marriage, when the camera cuts to a picture of a train entering a tunnel, is hilarious.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
19 Mar 07
Two of my favorite scenes are the first time Eva Marie Saint and cary really talk on the train and Cary and the corn field. Classic.
@pinhornudo (437)
• Brazil
31 Mar 10
Rope.And so Psycho, Vertigo, Dial M for Murder and Rear Window.
@Veganforpeace (13)
• United States
9 May 10
Psycho will always be my favorite. The atmosphere and the pacing is amazing. Also, the lack of showing extreme amounts of gore and blood just adds to the experience.
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@kogiro (124)
• Portugal
19 Mar 07
One of the Hitchcock movies that i always was very found of, is Srangers on a Train, the way that Hitchcock makes the principal character ponder about the possibility of murder with no consequences, and the characterization of is psicotic conterpart is masterful.
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@kobbsno10 (20)
• Australia
19 Mar 07
I,ve gotta say i,m not a hitchcock expert but for me "Birds" has got to be one of his great movies! It,s just very strange and creppy! The whole idea of something as beautiful as nature attacking you is very frighting! I love the tense moments in the movie when they eventually decide to leave the house knowing that at any minute that they could be attacked. Ya great movie!
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