[Greg]

Fantastic topic, Blizzi! There should be more threads like this more often! 😉

Best: (technically speaking) Psycho, North By Northwest, and Rear Window are way up there!!!

Worst: (technically speaking again) The Paradine Case

Fav: Vertigo!!! (Rope is pretty close for me as well!)

😉

[granville1]

Best: Rear Window – funny and suspenseful, plus Grace Kelley.

Fave: North by Northwest has me laughing all thru because of the snappy, sophisticated dialogue, not to mention the sight gags such as are seen at the Chicago train station. Slick location photography, the romance of train travel, gorgeous Eva Marie Sainte, smooth James Mason, creepy Martin Landau, witty Cary Grant, cynical Leo G Carroll… and so much more.

Worst: Haven’t found one yet, but I have yet to view Topaz and Torn Curtain…

[granville1]

P.S: The worst one I _have_ seen: The Birds. Didn’t find it scary and the bird attacks on the schoolgirls had me giggling, as did the lady ornithologist. It was a misquoting of Daphne DuMaurier’s superior short story. Actually, someone should adapt that for the screen – the way it’s written, it’s practically pre-storyboarded. It would make a good, if short, film.

[Blizzi]

Thanks greg, I’m flattered 🙂 I liked the birds alot. The sound of the flapping… I can hear it now… lol. I read the story and found it just as creepy (if not more). The main character thinking of survival while the birds are coming at him with no concern for their own safety. It’s a scary thought that something so common could turn on us. I found the end of the movie spooky. Shadow of a doubt was apparently Hitchcock’s fav. Charlie and uncle Charlie being two sides of a coin; good and evil. Well put together, good acting (funny to see the sweet guardian angel Clarence Oddbody talking to his friend about the ways he could kill him!), Theresa Wright was very good and I liked the song 🙂 . Rope was not a typical “good movie”, but I’m quite fond of it. It’s more like a play than a movie. I was surprised at how much they got away with… the relationship between Brandon and Phillip. Considering it was the 40’s. I ghoulishly enjoyed the dark humor. I liked the song in this movie too. Rear window is my fav. Jimmy stewart is great *sigh* 🙂 . Witty dialogue, good plot. Don’t get me wrong, I love Pycho too, but it’s just so hard to choose. I enjoyed Vertigo but I didn’t really follow it the first time. A lttle like my trouble with Legion. I didn’t realize while reading it that it was the Gemini’s brother who was in Karras’ body before he died. Different topic 😛 I didn’t have patients for Topaz. Some kind of spy/conspiracy thing, I think. I only saw it once but I was so detached… I really tried though. Torn curtain held my attention better. Odd having Julie Andrews in a Hitchcock movie.

[Father_Lamont]

Best: Psycho
Favourite: again Psycho
Worst: no Hitchcock film I have seen deserves such a description

[Jagged]

Best: Psycho
Favourite: Psycho/The Birds/Rear Window (Can’t distinguish between them)
Worst: Family Plot

[Blizzi]

I didn’t care for Family Plot either. Frenzy was more like Hitch.

[Sofia]

The Trouble with Harry didn’t have good reviews but I enjoyed it! Just watching it for Shirley is worth it. 😀

[kokumo]

“The Birds” is an immaculately directed, perfect film. I had friends oner one day and “Marnie” was playing quietly on the tube. Everyones eyes were drawn to it first for the beauty of star Tippi but soon they were captivated by the story. Not my favorite personally but the response from the group to an older pic they might not have ordinarily considered watching proves Hitchcock is The Master. “Frenzy” is grotesque & violent and twistedly funny. Probably the silent films he made in the 1920s are his least interesting but historians or completists may disagree.

[Blizzi]

Best: Shadow of a doubt

Worst: Topaz

Fav: Rear window (Birds and Rope close seconds 😉 )

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