Favorite Hitchcock Movie!!

[bridgit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikt0LD_qyo

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

1. The Rope.

[bridgit]

2. Rope is a good one

:thumbsup:

[tigereye]

54. hey wakeme!

:hi:


It's hard to pick just one. The guy was brilliant.

[Forkboy]

3. Rear Window.

Give it up for the R. Burr!

[Robeson]

10. Mine too.

[jeff30997]

11. I third that !

Great movie!

[Lionel Mandrake]

16. R. Burr?

That's Perry Mason as the bad guy.

[bridgit]

17. Yup, Burr is the noodnik

[Forkboy]

19. The Big Raymond!

He just happened to star in a movie I'm rather fond of. :)

[Cant trust em]

4. There are a couple of serious classics missing from this poll.

Rear Window?

Vertigo?

and my personal favorite...North by Northwest.

If you wind up updating, can you respond to this post so I don't just have to vote other?

[bridgit]

5. Take yer'pick ~

http://www.mysterynet.com/hitchcock/filmography.shtml

[redqueen]

32. Yes, North by Northwest.

Closely followed by Rear Window, for me.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear bridgit!

All the ones you listed are classics, and wonderful, of course...

But my personal favorite is "The Family Plot." It was his last movie, and it's full of sly humor, some scary parts, and twists and turns all over the place...

I recommend it highly!

:hi:

[bridgit]

8. Oooh, yes, Family Plot = good one, I DVR'd Rear Window and watching a bit...

before beddy-bye and here I am thinking about Alfred after all cause I just enjoy his work so much :hi:

[blondeatlast]

9. It's a great movie, very witty and suspenseful as well, nt

[leftofthedial]

7. North By Northwest

Rear Window

The Birds

The 39 Steps

[bridgit]

13. I love that one on the big screen

[Lionel Mandrake]

18. That's funny ...

He's dusting crops where there ain't no crops

[bridgit]

20. What's funny to me is what's his name running round in a suit & tie where crops are supposed to be

[Lionel Mandrake]

23. I laughed when Cary Grant stole the truck with the refrigerator.

[kath]

12. "Shadow of a Doubt" seldom makes these lists, but IMHO it's a very good one.

Hard to pick ONE favorite Hitchcock, but this one is certainly high up on my list.


Uncle Charlie: "The cities are full of women, middle-aged widows, husbands, dead, husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands, drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night, smelling of money, proud of their jewelry but of nothing else, horrible, faded, fat, greedy women..."

[zonkers]

21. Dont you know it. Creepy, weary, Uncle Charlie. The whole amusement park sequence. Tunnel of love.

What a talented filmmaker. A true master of suspense. What a a visual story teller. I have seen most of his films.

[Demoiselle]

56. YES! I love this one best, I think.

Uncle Charlie is truly one of the creepiest characters in the movies.
I also have always found Joseph Cotten to be one of the creepiest actors in the movies...I don't like his voice, or his looks, and, since he's usually playing a good guy, it's a relief for me to watch him fulfilling my worst thoughts about him in this flick.

It also feels more real to me than many Hitchcock thrillers. Hitchcock doesn't resort to any flamboyant stuff in this movie....It's the sweet little town, the gentle, innocent rubes against the nasty city slicker, and the devices are simple ones...an "accidentally" locked garage with the motor running, for example. No lethal crop dusters (what the hell was Cary Grant doing getting off the bus out in the middle of nowhere anyway?)

[Sequoia]

57. I like it too.

I went to the house where it was filmed and the railroad station too. Great movie.

The Lady Vanishes is pretty good too. They actaully have two gay guys in the movie, this was like 1936.

[XemaSab]

14. Vertigo

inspired every David Lynch film ever made. :D

[bridgit]

15. mos def

[anneboleyn]

43. Yes, Vertigo! I love the shots of San Francisco. Glorious stuff.

[ghostsofgiants]

50. Word up.

I forget the name, but I read a great book about Hitchcock's influence on Lynch. :thumbsup:

[zonkers]

22. REAR WINDOW, SHADOW OF A DOUBT- my faves. MARNIE - my guilty pleasure. N by NW, THE BIRDS, 39 STEPS

are in my opinion the most influential and most imitated films he made.

North By Northwest set the bar for action films to follow.

The Birds also basically invented the "attack of usually calm creatures" genre.

THe 39 STEPS was probably the first modern espionage film, the Bourne Conspiracy of it's day, manhunts, special effects and all.

Hitchcock was the man. No one like him. Spielberg has the eye but not the wit and cleverness.

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. The birds

[proteus_lives]

25. Can't decide between

Vertigo, Rear Window and North by Northwest.

[bridgit]

38. And a wonderful slice to be stuck between it is

[murielm99]

26. Vertigo or Marnie....I can't decide.

But I like so many of them!

[raccoon]

27. You didn't include PSYCHO? Do this poll over again!!!!

edited for spelling.

[bridgit]

42. I'll put you down for 'other'

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Of that group, I'm torn between Rebecca and Strangers on a Train (British version).

Both stellar movies.

[bridgit]

35. Strangers on a Train is one of my all time favs

[femmocrat]

29. "The Birds"

I have watched it about a dozen times.

Also, "North by Northwest".

[mitchum]

47. I had seen "The Birds" a few times, but never really appreciated it until...

I saw it on a big screen a few years ago.
It is very good.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Vertigo.

[Auggie]

31. Frenzy

[Paladin]

33. "Juno And The Paycock," But No Mention Of "Vertigo"?

Disappointing......

[bridgit]

34. Take *your* pick ~

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8923990&mesg_id=8924007

[mix]

36. i couldn't say myself, i've loved them all !

but Rear Window is excellent and well loved by me

:hi:

[ceile]

37. Shadow of a Doubt is my fave.

But Notorious and NXNW are right up there. The scene in NXNW where Grant calls his mother from the police station drunk as a skunk is pricelss!

[Vidar]

39. Psycho & The Trouble with Harry

[mitchum]

40. The only answer is Psycho

it's perfect cinema

[Just-plain-Kathy]

41. The Birds

[Captain Hilts]

44. North by Northwest. Notorious. nt

[bridgit]

45. Well I did have to drop some others to get a fav of mine on there --- Notorious

[Captain Hilts]

53. I love the photography of Notorious. It's great all round. Casting, everything. nt

[Zomby Woof]

46. Vertigo

Followed closely by "Psycho".

The closing scene of "Vertigo" is one of the very best in film. Hitchcock was brilliant in casting James Stewart against type in the several films they did together. Hitch basically killed off Capra.

"Psycho" is a Halloween tradition with us, as the first in a double feature with Mel Brooks's "Young Frankenstein". :D

[mitchum]

48. I think his casting of Stewart as an intellectual mentor in "Rope"...

was the ultimate in casting against type.

[Zomby Woof]

49. Ha!

Touché.

[mitchum]

51. I really have always assumed that was a very sly joke on the part...

of Hitchcock
who, of course, was a master sly joker.

[Zomby Woof]

52. I have no doubt

It worked perfectly too. I enjoy the cognitive dissonance of Stewart's mythical middle American "aw shucks" persona being turned on itself, revealing the very dark and disturbed underbelly which lies within Republicans like him. Hitchcock's films worked so well because he understood fundamental human psychology. And like you said, he had one helluva sly sense of humor.

[tigereye]

55. I don't know that I can pick just one -

Rear Window, Notorious, The 39 Steps, The Birds, Suspicion, Dial M for Murder, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Psycho always stick in my head. Hitchcock was so good at making your skin crawl with his depictions of the ordinariness of evil and horror.



Oddly, though, To Catch A Thief was probably the most fun to watch. I would love to check out the original Mr and Mrs. Smith - Carole Lombard is really cool.