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Your Favorite Alfred Hitchcock Film Is:

haven't seen any
0 (0%)
don't like any
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other
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
0 (0%)
Blackmail (1929)
0 (0%)
Murder! (1930)
0 (0%)
The Skin Game (1931)
0 (0%)
Rich and Strange (1931)
0 (0%)
Number Seventeen (1932)
0 (0%)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
0 (0%)
The 39 Steps (1935)
0 (0%)
Secret Agent (1936)
0 (0%)
Sabotage (1936)
0 (0%)
Young and Innocent (1937)
0 (0%)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
0 (0%)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
0 (0%)
Rebecca (1940)
1 (0.9%)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
0 (0%)
Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)
0 (0%)
Suspicion (1941)
0 (0%)
Saboteur (1942)
0 (0%)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
3 (2.8%)
Lifeboat (1944)
0 (0%)
Spellbound (1945)
0 (0%)
Notorious (1946)
3 (2.8%)
The Paradine Case (1947)
0 (0%)
Rope (1948)
3 (2.8%)
Under Capricorn (1949)
0 (0%)
Stage Fright (1950)
0 (0%)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
3 (2.8%)
I Confess (1953)
0 (0%)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
3 (2.8%)
Rear Window (1954)
28 (25.7%)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
0 (0%)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
2 (1.8%)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
0 (0%)
The Wrong Man (1956)
0 (0%)
Vertigo (1958)
36 (33%)
North by Northwest (1959)
10 (9.2%)
Psycho (1960)
13 (11.9%)
The Birds (1963)
3 (2.8%)
Marnie (1964)
1 (0.9%)
Torn Curtain (1966)
0 (0%)
Topaz (1969)
0 (0%)
Frenzy (1972)
0 (0%)
Family Plot (1976)
0 (0%)

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #200 on: December 21, 2017, 09:07:18 PM »
The Farmer's Wife  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1928)

(Corndog, since you enjoyed this movie, I'm dying to know the running time of your DVD copy.)

Wow, 2009...I am sure my opinion of the film will have changed, but I definitely have a recollection of being entertained. If I recall, it was a film that I sat down to write my review with a 3/4 rating in mind, and then talked myself up to 3.5 (FWIW).

I will have to look to see the runtime, but I also remember it being long, so my bet is on the 129 minutes.

I happened onto a copy of the "Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins" box set, and its version of The Farmer's Wife runs 98 minutes. I've rarely been so tempted to rewatch a film I hated.

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #201 on: December 22, 2017, 06:07:03 AM »
Ha, that makes me feel a little better about liking it as much as I did.
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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #202 on: July 06, 2018, 09:43:46 PM »
Up next: Secret Agent (1936)

I’m struggling to decide whether the quality of the version on Amazon Prime is good enough, or if I should hunt around for something better. I’m surprised that high-quality editions don’t exist for all Hitchcock’s sound films.

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #203 on: July 06, 2018, 11:34:52 PM »
I’m struggling to decide whether the quality of the version on Amazon Prime is good enough, or if I should hunt around for something better.

Okay, you be the judge.

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DVD (Hitchcock - The British Years)


As if the fuzzy, cropped image weren't bad enough, there's a watermark? There oughta be a law.

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #204 on: July 07, 2018, 12:03:51 AM »
It always depends how badly I want to watch the film. There are a lot of obscure titles I'm looking for and usually after a few minutes my eyes adjust to the poor quality and I'm able push thru.

I went poking around for you and found a lot of 360p versions and a 480p version on Dailymotion that looked like the Amazon Prime screenshots and one other version in 480p, but the running time was only 82 minutes and it didn't look that much better.

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #205 on: July 07, 2018, 12:09:52 AM »
It just makes me wonder how often we watch a film without fully seeing the real film. I can adjust to bad quality, but I'm sure it still impacts the experience, perhaps even greatly in some circumstances. That happened plenty of times in the Far East bracket (notably, here and here), where it came to be almost expected, but it amazes me a bit to think that a Hitchcock film could fall into that same category.

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #206 on: October 06, 2019, 07:36:43 PM »
Rear Window 10/10
Vertigo 10/10
North by Northwest 9/10
The Birds 9/10
Shadow of a Doubt 9/10
The Lady Vanishes 8/10
To Catch a Thief
Rebecca 8/10
Strangers on a Train 8/10
Suspicion 8/10
Marnie 8/10
Rope 8/10
Notorious 7/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much 7/10
The Trouble with Harry 7/10
Psycho 7/10
Frenzy 7/10
Topaz 7/10
Torn Curtain 5/10
Saboteur 5/10
Jamaica Inn 5/10

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Some major blindspots and I should revisit Notorious someday.

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #207 on: February 13, 2021, 09:23:02 AM »
Finished my latest Hitchcock marathon "offline", so I'm up to 49 films. Here's my list!

1. Rear Window
2. Vertigo
3. Strangers on a Train
4. North by Northwest
5. Psycho
6. The Lady Vanishes
7. The Lodger
8. Foreign Correspondent
9. Shadow of a Doubt
10. Lifeboat
11. Rope

12. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
13. The 39 Steps
14. Rebecca
15. Saboteur
16. Notorious
17. Stage Fright
18. Dial M for Murder
19. Suspicion
20. To Catch a Thief
21. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

22. Frenzy
23. The Birds
24. Sabotage
25. Spellbound
26. I Confess
27. Number Seventeen
28. Blackmail
29. The Farmer's Wife
30. The Wrong Man
31. Marnie
32. Rich and Strange
33. Champagne
34. Secret Agent
35. Murder!
36. Jamaica Inn

37. The Trouble with Harry
38. Family Plot
39. Easy Virtue
40. Torn Curtain
41. The Manxman
42. The Paradine Case
43. The Skin Game
44. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
45. Under Capricorn
46. Topaz
47. The Ring
48. Young and Innocent
49. Juno and the Paycock
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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #208 on: February 13, 2021, 09:27:10 AM »
Nice! Of course I think Notorious should be much higher. I've got maybe 10 Hitchcock films left to see to be complete.

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Re: Hitchcock, Alfred
« Reply #209 on: March 20, 2024, 07:08:26 AM »
Just watched Mr & Mrs Smith (1941), in one word. Stale

Not a Hitchcock I would recommend to anyone, except a completist.