Best Allred Hitchcock

I’ve just rewatched Stage Fright. Michael Wilding was really good in it and enjoyed Marlene Detriech’s singing. Young and Innocent from 1939 is another one on Amazon prime streaming video at the moment.

I'm also a Hitchcock fan. Probable alltime favourites:
Strangers on a train
39 steps
Shadow of a doubt

I saw another one recently:
Stage fright. It was slagged off by the critics for a false memory scene but it has a lot of the good Hitchcock suspense mixed with humour. Worth looking out for. It was made in 1950 before he went to Hollywood.

39 Steps, Stage Fright, Lady Vanishes, 1934 version of Man Who Knew Too Much, and Jamaica Inn are all available on Amazon Prime streaming video at the moment.

Frenzy is a brilliant film. Its definitely the most shocking film Hitchcock made, much more so than Psycho. Jon Finch was brilliant in it.
His later films, from Marnie onwards, sometimes get a bad press, but I really love them all, with Frenzy being the best of his later films. Topaz is my guilty pleasure, for me it’s Hitchcock’s ‘so bad it’s good’ film. I always enjoy watching Torn Curtain and Family Plot, although admittedly there is absolutely zilch on screen chemistry between Paul Newman and Julie Andrews in Torn Curtain and you end up feeling the hero (Paul Newman) is a bit of fraud.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Psycho.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 .

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

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.....

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.

What ever has Sean Connery

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.

Rebecca

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

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

Rear window and the birds.

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.