Best Allred Hitchcock

What about the best black & white Hitchcock films? I’d plump for Spellbound, Psycho, The 39 Steps, and The Lady Vanishes. (There’s remakes of 39 Steps and Lady Vanishes on tele this afternoon, but they’re not the originals.)

Was the original the one with Robert Donat as Richard Hannay? That one was on recently, I think.

Yes, the original 1930s one is with Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll with ‘Mr Memory’. The last 1970s remake was with Robert Powell with him hanging off the minute hand of Big Ben, and is on talking pictures channel 81 as I am typing. The first 1950s remake was with Kenneth Moore. They are always showing the 1970s remake on talking pictures and it is pretty good, but I think Robert Donat’s the best Richard Haney.

The Doris Day and Rex Harrison film was Midnight Lace, but it wasn`t one of Hitchcock`s, can`t remember who directed it.

Clicked too soon then. I can`t decide on my favourite Hitchcock film, Psycho scared me half to death, I loved The Birds, also Marnie, Stranger on a Train, and there was another, forget the title, but somone fired a gun at a door and blasted nearly the whole door away.

Rear window and the birds.

Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Psycho (terrifying), The Birds (always jump out of my skin). Love Rebecca
Favourite male probably Ray Milland

film.list.co.uk/listings/alfred-hitchcock/
Don't know why that doesn't automatically link. Have tried several times! Sorry. It lists all his films with leading actors.
I forgot 39 Steps
Favourite Males Ray Mill, Raymond Burr in Rear Window
I looked for Favourite Female, and I liked that he kept coming back to same actresses, but they do seem cold and distant. I suppose tgat is how he wanted them to play the parts

Rebecca

You must watch “the trouble with harry”
It is something very different. Dh and I think it is just hilarious. Or rather don’t, it was once a “pointless answer” and you never know, we might need one of those sometime.

What ever has Sean Connery

So many superb films so I can't choose a favourite, but one I can watch over and over is Rebecca.
Very clever man AH ,pity about his history with women.

Psycho remains one of my all time favourite films. It turned me on to thrillers and horror movies as a young(ish) girl and I've always had a copy.
I may have to watch it again later.....

I always loved Rebecca my favourite, then The Lady Vanishes and the 39 Steps.

I've only seen a few of those mentioned. But I did see Psycho. Like Purplepoppies it nearly scared me to death.
I still have occasional flashbacks - that background sound in the shower scene .

Rear Window
Vertigo
The shadow of a doubt

The Doris Day one,with the fog and the phone isn't a Hitchcock. It's called Midnight Lace and is very entertaining though not perhaps as good as his films.

Has anyone seen Shadow of a Doubt, Saboteur or Frenzy?
I bought all of his films on a set of dvds for £5 at a car boot sale. I've never watched them.
I saw Psycho on tv aeons ago and it was spooky.

I can't possibly narrow it down to three, so, here are my top six, in reverse order.....
6) Suspicion
5) The Man Who Knew Too Much
4) The 39 Steps, the 1935 Robert Donat version. (Love seeing John Laurie, Dad's Army's Private Fraser as a young man)
3) Dial M for Murder
2) North by Northwest
1) Rear Window

My favourite Hitchcock female was Grace Kelly.

Love, love, love Hitchcock films!

Big Hitchock fan here.....I particularly remember the cameos. It was fun to be on the look out for the (signature) random Hitchcock sightings. If memory serves me, he could be another pedestrian on the street, a shopper in a department store, on a lift etc.

Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest....my three favorites.

Psycho.

Rebecca
Rear Window
North by North West

I don't think there's a Hitchcock film I haven't enjoyed!
And I'm a real sucker for any film with Cary Grant in it.

Hitchcock made some phenomenal films but was a sexual predator. Weinstein likewise. Why can’t they just be creative without being utter d@cks?

Gabriella, DH and I saw Frenzy the day after we came home from a few days in London. It was a bit unnerving to see that some of the action took place at the hotel we’d just left (the Coburg)!

I can’t think of a Hitchcock I didn’t like, but my favourite has to be Rear Window.

Was it Marnie that had scenes in a terraced street with a huge cargo ship right at the end of it? It looked so unrealistic until I saw old photos of streets like that by Liverpool docks.

Yes, it was just a massive painting of ship in a dock looming over the street where Marnie’s mum lived. Marnie also has the completely unrealistic lightening when Tippi Hedon and Sean Connery are working in his office.
In Hitchcock’s defence he was influenced by the expressionist film makers in Germany in the 1930s so fake lightening and fake ships are part of his art. Or maybe he just hated filming on location so much that he sacrificed realism in order to do as much as possible in the studio.
I alwalys notice the painted backdrop in the Birds when Tippi Hebron is sailing accross the lake.