Happy Birthday.... Alfred Hitchcock

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...


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

For those of you who are unfamiliar with this delicious little bit of fiction, the name of it is, "Lamb to the Slaughter". It was written by Roald Dahl, and was aired on Hitchcock in 1958. Check this out:

Link to "Lamb to the Slaughter"

"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."