Comments on: The Essentials: The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock Pt. 2 (1940-1976, The Hollywood Years)

By: Marlow Jean

Marlow Jean — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:13:49 +0000

Great feature.

By: James

James — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:13:49 +0000

The degree to which SHADOW OF A DOUBT is an inversion of "Our Town" is shown by the fact that Thornton Wilder actually wrote both of them:)

By: James

James — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:13:49 +0000

Hitchcock talks about the terrible ending of SUSPICION in the Truffaut book. It was, indeed, a studio mandated happy ending. The original ending was that SPOILER Grant does poison Fontaine, and she, heartbroken, knows he's doing it but drinks it because she can't bear to be without him. However before drinking it, she pens a letter describing everything he did and innocently gives it to him to mail. After her death, in the final scene, he cheerfully, blithely drops it in a mailbox. If that ending had been shot, as Hitchcock had intended, I'm sure the film would be thought of as in the first ranks of his classics. Such a shame about the silly happy ending.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:13:49 +0000

fantastic retrospective guys, great job.

By: Leonardo

Leonardo — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:13:49 +0000

Hitchcock a master of the cinema, nothing else to say.

By: Daniel Delago

Daniel Delago — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:13:49 +0000

Hitchcock's influence in cinema today is undeniable. It is safe to say that any filmmaker that focuses on the psychological thriller genre "borrows" quite heavily from Hitchcock's pioneering signature style.