Just when most fans had given up hope of Sir Alfred ever delivering another thriller that merited goose bumps, along came a darkly nasty late-life delight – his second to last movie. Meanwhile, Connie often surprises both her boat mates and the audience with her spontaneous actions, such as when she kisses Gus before his leg must be amputated or reapplies her lipstick as a kind of cosmetic life preserver. The wartime premise allows Hitchcock to forthrightly address the issue of God’s role in humanity’s fate. But it’s Tallulah Bankhead as cynical reporter Connie with her marvelously deep-throated line readings (“Dying together’s even more personal than living together”) and glamorous accessories that float away one by one that keeps this dramatic rig afloat. One of Hitchcock’s experiments in the use of a single setting can feel a bit stagey if downright corny occasionally when each survivor of a sinking ship who are forced to share the title craft must represent a slice of humanity, from the religious black man Joe (Canada Lee) and William Bendix’s dumb-lug Gus to Walter Slezak’s callous Nazi Willi to Heather Angel’s unstable woman clinging to her dead baby. As will anyone who sits down to watch the results. Selznick (who big-footed it all over the production), and really just wanted out. In actuality, Hitchcock was at the end of his contract with David O. Carroll, all directed by someone calling himself Alfred Hitchcock. Moonlight” George Clooney has “Monuments Men.” Everybody’s got something to hide and, for Hitchcock, it’s this hammily acted courtroom-drama-meets-psychological thriller starring Gregory Peck (“Spellbound”), Alida (“The Third Man”) Valli, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton and Hitchcock regular Leo G. Napoleon had Waterloo the Red Army hockey team had Lake Placid The Beatles had “Mr. Do we go along with Sight and Sound’s consensus choice? Read it and weep. Feel free to tell us where we went wrong–especially in our choice of Number One. However, for those unfamiliar with Hitchcock, or maybe only aware of his biggest hits, the following are all worth exploring, and collectively deliver hours of suspense, dark comedy, thrills, and intense psychological drama.As a restored version of Hitchcock’s voyeuristic classic “Rear Window” returns to circulation, the TOH gang ranks the top 25 Hitchcock films. In total, he made about 60 films, and since the majority of those are worth watching, a ranking of just 25 proves to be challenging, as there are naturally some omissions. The best of his works still feel alive, exciting, and vital, and that's a reason other filmmakers have always been influenced by him, whether it was back when he was alive and making movies, or in the years since 1980.Īs a director, Hitchcock made numerous movies in both the British and American film industries, starting with silent films in the 1920s, and continuing to direct into the 1970s. Many of his best works don't feel like they live in the past, or merely feel like products of it. His films live on and hold up well, despite the fact Hitchcock himself passed away in 1980, and his final film was released in 1976. Alfred Hitchcock's influence on cinema cannot be denied.
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