bloodySunday77 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

These are indeed very good choices, and I can only guess that there must be an almost equal volume of literature on those, especially on Rear Window. Everything I wrote was very simplistic. "More than meets the eye"?? I sound like a 12 year-old... anyway, you get the picture.

goback3spaces (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm afraid I must dissent, though I know I'm in the minority on this one. For me, Hitch's best English movie was THE LADY VANISHES, his best American film was REAR WINDOW.

bloodySunday77 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ιt is Hitchcock's simplest, purest and most personal film. He never let himself get carried away in such a sentimental choice after it. It might appear simple but there is a huge psychological background beneath it, and it is there for those who want to search for it. For those who don't, they can also have a good time watching it, but it would be a sin to miss everything that the huge number of studies say about it: that it certainly means more than meets the eye.

Noveltooner (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This was one of the RARE instances where Bernard Herrmann did not conduct his score. Herrmann was a loyal union man and the American Guild of Musicians was on strike. Most of the score was recorded in England with Sinfonia of London and the London Symphony Orchestra by his good friend Muir Mathieson. Herrmann did conduct the Paramount Studio Orchestra in Hollywood for the recording of the final cue sequences in the film, but that was all. The soundtrack CD credits the enitre score to Paramount.

LittleRedMenace (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Actually, I think this movie is underrated - especially James Stewarts' performance. One of his best - if not, most fucked up. I love it.

jagoda3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

UN CAPOLAVORO

KnightsStudiosUK (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Try and watch it again then!!!

goback3spaces (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I haven't seen it in many years, but I remember something film-studentish about the whole contraption. Unbelievable, in the negative sense. I found myself doubting the whole thing.

KnightsStudiosUK (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Vertigo isn't overrated. It is one of the finest films ever made. It features a magnificent performance by Jimmy Stewart and this is surely Hitch at his best. But Marnie is definitely underrated.

goback3spaces (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This movie is the most overrated in Hitchcock's canon. Most underrated, you ask? MARNIE.