I have just started to watch Vertigo (1958), I have never watched the whole movie before.

[texanwitch]

I have seen the beginning and the end but not the middle.

I did see The Rope, what a strange movie.

The Man That Saw to Much is interesting, now I know where the song came from.

Of course I have seen Rear Window about 1000 times.

Hitchcock could make a interesting movie.

Any more Hitchcock movies worth watching.

[Blue_Tires]

1. North by Northwest

The Birds

Psycho?

[texanwitch]

2. I have seen the Birds and Psycho many times.

I don't think I have seen North by Northwest.

[MicaelS]

42. Please watch it ASAP.

North by Northwest is one of Hitchcock's best.

Might want to give The Trouble with Harry a watch if you like black comedies.

Oh, you've already seen "Harry". Nevermind.

[PETRUS]

3. I recommend "The Trouble With Harry."

Among my favorites and not yet mentioned on the thread.

[valerief]

5. Ha! I was typing that just as you were!!!! nt

[PETRUS]

6. It's in its own category, almost.

[valerief]

7. Right. I'm surprised it's considered an inferior Hitchcock flick by some standards. nt

[texanwitch]

11. The Trouble with Harry is the one with the dead body everyone is trying to hide.

That was a good one.

[valerief]

4. North by Northwest is my favorite Hitchcock flick, but

I really, really enjoyed the quiet, dark humor of The Trouble With Harry.

Rear Window is a gem. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a lot of fun.

Hell, just spin a Hitchcock roulette wheel. You can't go wrong with any of them!

[texanwitch]

16. North by Northwest, is that the one with plane scene on the road.

That is another one I have only seen parts of.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. Another Hitchcock "falsely accused innocent has to find the bad guys" picture

Lots of fun.

Trivia note: The woman who plays Cary Grant's mother was only two years older than he was.

[valerief]

38. Ha, reminds me of Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate. I think she was only a couple of year

older than Laurence Harvey.

[valerief]

39. Yep, that's the one. Grant in the middle of nowhere with cornfields nearby.

Cropduster plane swoops him.

There's a literal cliffhanger at the end of the flick. Lots of fun, especially if you like trains.

[frogmarch]

8. Bell, Book and Candle

was another Hitchcock movie starring Kim Novak and James Stewart. I wonder whatever became of Kim Novak. I also remember her in Picnic with William Holden.

[texanwitch]

13. That is a good one.

I remember seeing that at the movies when I was little.

Kim Novak was so so cool in that movie.

[texanwitch]

20. I knew someone who was a extra in Picnic, she was one of the babies.

Looked like the whole town was in that movie.

[frogmarch]

34. How cool!

I loved that movie. If I ever have a chance to see it again, I'll pay special attention to the babies.

Susan Strasberg played Kim's character's younger tomboy sister. I always liked her, and I was sad when she died in 1999 of breast cancer.

[texanwitch]

35. I have Picnic on DVD, I watch it every year on Labor Day.

I could relate to the railroad in the backyard scenes.

I can't remember which baby my friend was.

There was lots of kids in the movie at the picnic area.

All I can remember was that she was with her Mother in the movie shot.

[nuxvomica]

24. BB&C is not Hitchcock but a fun movie nonetheless

It would make a good double-feature with Vertigo.

[frogmarch]

31. What a surprise! I'd always

thought it was.

Come to think of it, though, in many ways it wasn't really Hitchcockesque.

[Art_from_Ark]

30. Kim Novak was in "Satan's Triangle"

a 1975 made-for-TV movie about some bizarre events that happened on board a yacht in the Bermuda Triangle.

[frogmarch]

33. I must have missed that one.

I think the last screen film I saw her in was Jeanne Eagles.

Edited to add: Apparently she came out of retirement to do the TV movie. Anyway, I read in an article today that after Vertigo she and her husband, whom she's still married to, moved to Montana and started a horse ranch. I guess they're still there.

[RILib]

47. She has a good life

Long time marriage to a vet, lives on a ranch. It sounds satisfying and cozy.

[csziggy]

58. Kim Novak had a series of movies that flopped

And pretty much quit acting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Novak

[Bucky]

9. After that, watch Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety" -- his tribute to Hitch

[zanana1]

28. I agree with you on that one.

I saw "High Anxiety" a long time ago, but I still remember it. Fun.

[valerief]

40. LOVE LOVE LOVE that flick!!!! nt

[Paladin]

10. They're All Worth Watching.

"Vertigo" is my personal favorite---you don't know whether to laugh or cry at Jimmy Stewart's character, standing in that bell tower at the end....

[texanwitch]

12. Is this the one where he trys to make a woman into being someone else.

Jimmy Stewart could play a weird guy if he wanted to.

[Paladin]

37. That's The One.

If you don't get goosebumps from that scene toward the end of the movie where Kim Novak "reappears," you need to check your vital signs.....

[Populist_Prole]

14. It's a slow paced movie that takes it's sweet time setting up the plot climax, so relax and enjoy

Enjoy the beautiful photography. Even the begginning credits part is enjoyable to me: That haunting music really stays in your head and is the perfect background for the late 50's visual abstract lightshow art.

[mulsh]

15. Shadow of a Doubt. one of Hitchock's personal favorites.

Joseph Cotton plays the creepy uncle.

Filmed in Santa Rosa, CA. Quite a few locals made it into the film including the girl who played the younger sister.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Yes, Shadow of a Doubt is great, and so is Strangers on a Train

Shadow of a Doubt: A teenage girl has always looked forward to visits from her Uncle Charlie, but she begins to suspect that he's a serial killer.

Strangers on a Train: Two men who end up sitting together on a train both have annoying family members. One of them says it would be fun to trade murders, since the murderer would have no obvious connection to the victim. The second man takes it as a joke---until his annoying wife is murdered.

Two of the pictures Hitchcock made in Britain:

The Lady Vanishes: A young woman traveling on a train through Switzerland strikes up a conversation with an older woman who disappears. No one else remembers seeing her.

The 39 Steps: A man is falsely accused of a crime, runs for it, and in a complicated series of events, ends up having to evade capture and find the bad guys while handcuffed to a woman.

[texanwitch]

19. I am beginning to like mystery movies now, Hitchcock was the best.

Thanks for all the info guys.

I remember seeing Gaslight, can't remember who is in it.

[mucifer]

21. Charles Boyier and Ingrid Bergman

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. And a 17-year-old Angela Lansbury

playing a conniving maid

[ceile]

44. got her first Oscar nod for that.

She could be deliciously evil...

[mulsh]

45. The original 1940 Gaslight made in England is way creepier than the Hollywood version

you can probably find it at a cult video site. After seeing the original version I can't watch what Hollywood did to this story. even with Ingrid Bergman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_%281940_film%29

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. Take note of Bernard Herrmann's scores for the Hollywood films

They add a lot to the atmosphere, especially the screeching strings in the famous shower scene in [1]Psycho.

[sarge43]

54. From Citizen Kane to Taxi Driver, Herrmann was one of the greats.

Having the violins scream for Leigh was inspired.

[mucifer]

22. I loved "Notorious" with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

[texanwitch]

23. Ok, just saw the part of the movie where the rich guy uses Jimmy Stewart to kill his wife.

Poor Jimmy.

[edbermac]

25. Well, here are some I like besides all his well known classics.

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) - Hitch called this his first true 'Hitchcock' picture

Young and Innocent (1937) - light fluff; climatic scene at a hotel ballroom has one of his greatest camera shots.

Rope (1948) - shot in ten minute takes

Marnie (1964) - interesting to compare with Vertigo, man attracted to woman because she's a thief

Frenzy (1972) - scenes between detective and his gourmet cook wife are a real hoot

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. I loved "The Family Plot"

It was Hitchcock's last movie. Funny, black humor, clever plot twists.

It was a lot of fun.

[sarge43]

27. shadow of a doubt

It was his favorite

[Downtown Hound]

51. I used to live in Santa Rosa about a mile away from where the house

in that movie is located. I still do live in Santa Rosa, just over on the other side of town now. It's always a trip to watch that movie and see what my town looked like in the 40's, I can recognize a few places and that's it. Everything else is totally different.

I've also seen the schoolhouse used in The Birds. It's still standing, and has a big cardboard profile of Alfred Hitchcock in the window. It's about a 40 minute drive away.

[sarge43]

53. You should get the book

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick Mcgilligan. The author goes into a lot of detail about the making of Shadow. Hitchcock fell in love with Santa Rosa. He thought it was the perfect example of small town USA.

[Downtown Hound]

56. Maybe back then

But Santa Rosa is 160,000 people today. It ain't so small anymore.

Nevertheless, I'll check out that book. It sounds interesting.

[sarge43]

57. Didn't think it would be now. It's been 70 years.

It is very interesting

[Recursion]

32. He invented that zoom & move technique

Amazing movie.

[Rhiannon12866]

36. If I remember, that wasn't shown for a whole lot of years, till recently

I saw that on TV when I was a kid, don't even know if anyone watched it with me. That movie scared me so badly that it didn't just affect me for a day or a week, can still remember now how terrified I was...

[valerief]

41. Another film I really, really like that isn't Hitchcock but sooooo reminds me of him is

A Woman's Face, directed by George Cukor and starring Joan Crawford. It was her best film.

Lots of suspense and tension.

[RILib]

48. No one was as terrifying as Joan Crawford

We don't seem to have actors and actresses like the old days. Just imho. Barbara Stanwick, Myrna Loy, Bette Davis, James Mason.

[valerief]

50. And Claude Rains. Love him with Davis in Deception. nt

[ceile]

43. Shadow of a Doubt and Notorious are my favorites

Some of his that aren't shown often, but are equally good are Foreign Correspondent and Torn Curtain. To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest are good fun- love Cary Grant!!

[harmonicon]

46. Any of them?

I think Vertigo is my favourite, but I also really like North by Northwest, and Rear Window (but you've seen that). Honestly, I don't think I've seen a bad film he directed.

[derby378]

49. VERTIGO is one that I haven't seen, either

I've seen High Anxiety, though, which just makes me a bit odd. I need to curl up in front of the tube sometime soon and watch this.

Didn't some respectable critics put Vertigo on the same level as Citizen Kane and Gone With the Wind as a candidate for best movie of all time?

[sarge43]

55. Has someone recommended Spellbound?

If not

[csziggy]

59. One I've seen several times recently that I like

Is "Dial M for Murder". I had to watch it twice to catch most of the nuances - and there are still new bits I notice every time I see it.

"The Trouble with Harry" is great fun and another with twists that you may not notice the first few times you see it.

[texanwitch]

60. I checked on Youtube and there are lots of Hitchcock's movies, some really old ones.

There are several whole movies.

Something for a winter's night with the lights out.