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Wed 13 Aug, 2003 08:19 am
He would have been 104 years old today!
He is one of my favorite director. Difficult to pick just one of his movies here are some of my favorite ones (in no particular order)
Psycho
North By Northwest
Vertigo
The Birds
Suspicion
Dial M for Murder
Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
There's a nice little tribute to him on Google.
http://www.google.com/
I have the 2 volume DVD set of his films on a wishlist somewhere. Someday....
I found it amusing when I discovered he filmed Pyscho in black and white because blood made him squimish.
Ooohh, I just loved the episode of his series wherein Barbara Bel Geddes (later Miss Ellie of Dallas fame) kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, then defrosts it and serves it to the detectives investigating the murder! Perfection!
Now I've got the TV show's theme song in my head. Hmmm....
Yes...
jespah wrote:Ooohh, I just loved the episode of his series wherein Barbara Bel Geddes (later Miss Ellie of Dallas fame) kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb, then defrosts it and serves it to the detectives investigating the murder! Perfection!
And to see the smile of Barbara Bel Geddes' face when one of the detectives said (don't recall the exact quote) :
"We may have the murder weapon right under our eyes and not see it."
It's also one of my favorite episodes. I wish we had more good TV series like this one.
http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/links/clips3.htm
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/hitchcok.wav
"Vertigo" is my favorite film -- I could watch it just to be absobed into its atmosphere of intrigue and metaphysics. Barbara Bel Geddes was in that film also as the rather twerpy girl friend who utters the famous line, "Stupid, stupid, stupid."