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jed

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List of all Hitchcock
« on: July 18, 2008, 11:07:38 AM »
The last two Best Shows, this archive (includes Cohen brothers list), and Matthew_S' post made me want to make a Hitcock list.  He has too many I've never seen for me to really fill out but what are your favorites?

At the top, for me:

1. The Wrong Man
2. Strangers on a Train
3. Vertigo

Filmography:
1922 No. 13
1923 Always Tell Your Wife
1925 The Pleasure Garden
1926 The Mountain Eagle
1927 The Lodger
1927 Downhill
1927 The Ring
1928 Easy Virtue
1928 The Farmer's Wife
1928 Champagne
1929 The Manxman
1929 Blackmail (silent version)
1929 Blackmail
1930 Juno and the Paycock
1930 Murder!
1930 Elstree Calling
1931 The Skin Game
1931 Mary
1932 Number Seventeen
1932 Rich and Strange
1933 Waltzes from Vienna
1934 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1935 The 39 Steps
1936 Secret Agent
1936 Sabotage
1937 Young and Innocent
1938 The Lady Vanishes
1939 Jamaica Inn
1940 Rebecca
1940 Foreign Correspondent
1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941 Suspicion
1942 Saboteur
1943 Shadow of a Doubt
1944 Lifeboat
1944 Aventure Malgache
1944 Bon Voyage
1945 Spellbound
1946 Notorious
1947 The Paradine Case
1948 Rope
1949 Under Capricorn
1950 Stage Fright
1951 Strangers on a Train
1953 I Confess
1954 Dial M for Murder
1954 Rear Window
1955 To Catch a Thief
1955 The Trouble with Harry
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 The Wrong Man
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1963 The Birds
1964 Marnie
1966 Torn Curtain
1969 Topaz
1972 Frenzy
1976 Family Plot
 

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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2008, 11:18:32 AM »
1930 Under Siege 2 and the Paycock

I thought John Ford did this one?

I've only seen 11 of these all the way through (The Wrong Man not included), but this:

1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1963 The Birds

Talk about a hot streak. 

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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2008, 11:25:53 AM »
I watched The 39 Steps for the first time earlier this year, and could not believe how bad it was. Even for a movie of it’s time, I thought it was pretty awful. I was surprised, because I always hear that thrown around as one of his classics – why? Was it a gigantic hit, is that why people always talk about it or something? I don’t get it.

That being said, I saw about 2/3 of The Lodger on TCM once last year, not realizing it as a Hitchcock, and loved it. I’ve been meaning to Netflix it to see it all the way through. Good stuff.

Top three for me: The Birds, Rope, and Lifeboat, in that order.
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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2008, 11:39:09 AM »
I watched The 39 Steps for the first time earlier this year, and could not believe how bad it was. Even for a movie of it’s time, I thought it was pretty awful. I was surprised, because I always hear that thrown around as one of his classics – why? Was it a gigantic hit, is that why people always talk about it or something? I don’t get it.

Maybe not worth all the acclaim, but "bad"? I don't think it's bad. It is a reeeeeally early on the list too.
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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2008, 11:52:48 AM »
1. Vertigo
(then a biiiig gap to:)
2. Marnie
3. The Birds

Then, the rest of the late 50s, early 60s films.

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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2008, 11:53:55 AM »
1. North By Northwest
2. Shadow of a doubt (Joseph Cotton just rules)
3. Strangers On A Train

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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2008, 12:02:08 PM »
Boy, I like Hitchcock but I never got the Birds.*  Time to rewatch I guess.

My favorite is Rear Window.   




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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2008, 12:14:32 PM »
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1963 The Birds

Talk about a hot streak. 

I think Hitchcock pretty much invented the hotstreak right there.

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« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2008, 12:28:07 PM »
1935 The 39 Steps
1938 The Lady Vanishes
1940 Rebecca
1941 Suspicion
1943 Shadow of a Doubt
1944 Lifeboat
1945 Spellbound
1946 Notorious
1947 The Paradine Case
1948 Rope
1949 Under Capricorn
1951 Strangers on a Train
1953 I Confess
1954 Dial M for Murder
1954 Rear Window
1955 To Catch a Thief
1955 The Trouble with Harry
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1963 The Birds
1964 Marnie
1972 Frenzy
1976 Family Plot

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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2008, 12:36:18 PM »
top 3 for me

1. Rope - only Hitchcock could pull off a thriller in one room shot in all long takes.
2. Psycho - for obvious reasons, but really for me it's Anthony Perkins' performance. so calmly creepy
3. The Trouble with Harry - one of Hitch's not so often seen comedys and it's dry and dark and hilarious
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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2008, 12:54:09 PM »
It's hard to rank one's I don't like when his early stuff is so different (Rich and Strange), but I think To Catch a Thief is overrated. It misses out for not having a good murder.   For non-murderous Hitchcock I like The Wrong Man.
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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2008, 02:35:22 PM »
I've seen

Dial M for Murder
Psycho
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Rebecca
Suspicion
The 39 Steps
North by Northwest
The Trouble with Harry
The Birds
Rope
Notorious
Saboteur
Lifeboat
Shadow of a Doubt
To Catch a Thief
Vertigo
Marnie
The Wrong Man
Spellbound

Psycho, Vertigo, and North by Northwest are all my favorites.

I'm surprised that there's a lot of Birds-lovers. That's probably my least favorite.

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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2008, 03:59:42 PM »
1. Rear Window
2. Strangers On a Train
3. Vertigo
4. North By Northwest
5. Spellbound
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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2008, 04:09:19 PM »
I haven't watched too much Hitchcock but I did watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents a ton when I was a kid on Nick at Nite. Once Netflix comes to the 360 I'm going to watch all of those because I think a lot of the seasons are on the instant queue.

My favorite Hitchcock movie and it's not even close: The Stewart/Day Man Who Knew Too Much. That's one of my favorite movies of all time.

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Re: List of all Hitchcock
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2008, 04:19:00 PM »
Top five (alphabetically)

High Anxiety
North by Northwest
Psycho
Rear Window
Vertigo
The Wrong Man