|
|
What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Starting May 1—get up to 2,500 FREE listings* every month with an eBay Stores subscription
eBay has reduced the upfront cost to sell for Store sellers! With eBay’s new everyday rate plans, you get from up to 150 to 2,500 FREE listings* per month—no insertion fees, auction-style or fixed price—with an eBay Stores subscription. You pay a final value fee only when you sell! Plus, the final value fees for Stores have been streamlined to just 5 competitive category-based rates as low as 4%—and never more than 9%—regardless of how you sell.
Learn more about everything eBay Stores have to offer, then use the Fee Illustrator to find the best Store option for you! Watch this tutorial to learn how.
*Pay no insertion fees for your allotted free listings per calendar month. Optional fees, including advanced listing upgrades and supplemental service fees, still apply. Pay final value fees only when you sell. Motors Vehicles, Real Estate, Heavy Equipment, Concession Trailers & Carts, Imaging & Aesthetics Equipment and Commercial Printing Presses are excluded. 12 free pictures does not apply to Motors Vehicles listings. Terms are subject to change. Learn more.
|
|
What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 3, 2004 11:42 AM
|
Hi,
I am sure this question has been posted before. But I would love to hear which Hitchcock movie is your favorite.
Mine are Rebecca and Marnie. Got to love Olivier and Connery in their prime!
Thanks
|
|
|
|
(1 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 3, 2004 03:15 PM
|
The 39 Steps, and The Trouble With Harry. John Forsythe was really over the top in Harry and 39 Steps is great black & white watching. I'm glad Harrison Ford wasn't of the Hitchcock era- I think he would have been cast in North By Northwest (a good all-purpose Hitch film). Watching Polanski's Frantic always makes me think Hitchcock/Ford would have been a match-up.
|
|
|
|
(2 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 3, 2004 03:32 PM
|
Hi,
And thank you for posting, I have not seen the movie, but will look for it on DVD.
Page
|
|
|
|
(3 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 3, 2004 04:09 PM
|
Hey it's raining here on the East Coast so what a good night to put in a Hitchcock movie on the old VCR.
My favorite is "Rear Window" (I love Jimmy Stewart)
Next is "The Birds" (Tippi was wonderful)
Then it's a toss-up between "Psycho" and "Vertigo"
Also in my modest collection is "Suspicion"
* I was just a kid when Psycho first came out. I can't believe my parents let us go see it at the movies. I have a vivid memory of that movie coming out at about the same time a hit song called "Dreamin'" was playing on the radio but I don't know who sang it.
|
|
|
|
(4 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 3, 2004 04:39 PM
|
OK,
Thank you for posting, I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as a child with my parents... ha ha.
I did like REAR WINDOW. One of Stewarts best. We associate Hitchcock with The Birds, Psycho. The younger generation, is not familiar, unfortunatly with his greater movies, such as To Catch A Thief, and North By Northwest or even Lifeboat, Rope.
However I am in my mid thirties but I have been a Hitchcock fan for some time. Perhaps todays writers, could give us a movie this imaginative, creative once every 3 yrs to keep us buying movie tickets.
SIGH
|
|
|
|
(5 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 4, 2004 01:57 PM
|
I've mostly seen the stuff he's done in the 50s and 60s however, my favorite is "Shadow of a Doubt" which came out around 1942 ( trivia note: Robert Quarry, who starred in "Count Yorga Vampire", is in this film as one of the children - not sure which one ). I also enjoyed "North by Northwest" and "Rear Window". I liked "Psycho" but I think it's been riffed on so much that it has lost a little of its luster for me.
|
|
|
|
(6 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 4, 2004 03:08 PM
|
My favorite is Rebecca. The plot twist really got me good the first time I saw it. On subsequent viewings, I began to take notice of the atmosphere, the scene composition, the editing, the music, etc. and have a greater appreciation for this film. I recently got the DVD with various actresses' screen tests for what's her name. Some are okay, others blah, and one — you can fiddle-dee-dee all you want, I'm not going say whose it was — was downright hilarious. All it needed was Hattie McDaniel playing Mrs. Danvers.
Psycho is my next favorite. Although later movies have stronger, more intense shock moments, nothing tops meeting Norman's mom when I was just 8 or so.
The Birds was great, but it's been so long since I saw it. I still get chills whenever I drive through Bodega Bay.
If I had to choose a fourth, it would be High Anxiety. Does that count?
|
|
|
|
(7 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 4, 2004 07:02 PM
|
The Lady Vanishes is my favorite, although it's been awhile since I've watched it.
Also great:
Rear Window
Trouble with Harry
39 Steps
|
|
|
|
(8 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 5, 2004 09:17 PM
|
Hitchcock made a cameo appearance in many of his movies. Here's a link showing which scenes from which movies he appeared in. http://www.videouniversity.com/hitchcok.htm
|
|
|
|
(9 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 6, 2004 08:12 AM
|
Sabotage, The Lady Vanishes and Vertigo
|
|
|
|
(11 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 14, 2004 08:51 PM
|
wow- Lifeboat! that's a good one. haven't seen it this epoch, but i have to think that was a tough film job, to keep it from looking like a handicam replay of a stage play. i thought Rope was too much like a recording of a play to stand as just a film.
|
|
|
|
(12 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 16, 2004 06:38 AM
|
I also loved Rebecca. My favorite is " The Man Who Knew Too Much" with Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. Que Sera Sera...
The Birds scared me to death. Dial M For Murder is another great one.
|
|
|
|
(13 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 16, 2004 05:20 PM
|
Vertigo. Great Bernard Herrmann score to boot.
|
|
|
|
(14 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
May 17, 2004 07:22 AM
|
Rear Window. Perfect casting: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, even Thelma Ritter. And the guy who played the piano across the courtyard was Ross Bagdasarian, aka David Seville, creator of the Chipmunks. Hitchcock is shown standing next to his piano in one scene.
The movie is scary as hell with NO gore.
I also love North by Northwest...and it mentions Ypsilanti. 
And yes, Rebecca is also wonderful....Dame Judith Anderson and George Sanders are always great. And Laurence....what a babe.
Cymru Am Byth!
|
|
|
|
(15 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jun 5, 2004 06:10 PM
|
Ok, I've only seen The Birds,which is one of the best scary movies of all-time in my opinion. I am definetely going to check out Hitchcock's other movies, though. They sound good, too!
|
|
|
|
(16 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jun 11, 2004 11:36 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
(17 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jun 17, 2004 07:24 PM
|
Rebecca - the opening scene pulls you in....fascinatingly
eerie... Remember Florence Bates???? One of the finest
character actresses of her time.... Dame Anderson was
really outstanding. Second favorite - Suspicion...or anything in which Hitch could feature Cary Grant.....
The Hitchcock films perfected character development and
psychological intrigue...
|
|
|
|
(18 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jun 27, 2004 03:46 PM
|
In first place: Rear Window. For Jimmy Stewart, for the British humour and observations about neighbourhood life, for everything.
In second place: North by Nortwest. For Cary Grant, for the pacing, for the great scene in which he gets chased by the airplane in the cornfield.
In third place: Psycho. For the beautiful B&W photography, the truly creepy atmosphere and the chilly ending.
|
|
|
|
(19 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jun 29, 2004 03:08 PM
|
British sound period: The 39th Step, The Lady Vanishes
First US period: Foreign Correspondent, Suspect of a Doubt
Second US period: Strangers on a Train
Third US period: Rear Window, Vertigo
I realize this does not answer the question, but perhaps the question cannot be answered.
|
|
|
|
(20 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jun 30, 2004 12:34 PM
|
perhaps the question cannot be answered
There are as many answers as there are people willing to answer.
I think it is a great idea for a thread!
|
|
|
|
(21 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jul 2, 2004 12:07 PM
|
I like "THE BIRDS". Tippi is wonderful, as is Suzy Pleshette. I still get chills during the bird attacks!
Never liked "PSYCHO" when I was younger but as I've gotten older I've come to see what a great film it is. It is truly creepy.
Also good-
"YOUNG AND INNOCENT"
"DIAL M FOR MURDER"
"REAR WINDOW"
'FRENZY"
"MARNIE"
|
|
|
|
(22 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jul 4, 2004 07:01 AM
|
My favorite films from "Hitch" -
1. PSYCHO
2. NORTH BY NORTHWEST
3. FRENZY
|
|
|
|
(23 of 150)
Re: What is your favorite Hitchcock movie?
Jul 9, 2004 06:52 AM
|
THIS IS A TOUGH ONE..
ITS A TOSS UP BETWEEN REAR WINDOW, NOTORIOUS, MAN WHO KNEW TOOMUCH AND NORTH BY NORTHWEST.
EVEN THOUGH KIM NOVAK WAS MY TRUE LOVE IN VERTIGO.
|
|
Helpful Links and Additional Resources
Lights, Camera, Action! Finding Items on eBay Movies Newsletter A Buyer's Guide to DVDs THE MOVIE CHAIN GAMEUltimate Silver Screen Trivia # 3 Let's Play Name That Quote... Your favorite Hitchcock movie?
|
Starting May 1—get up to 2,500 FREE listings* every month with an eBay Stores subscription
)
)
)
)
)