Hitchcock's Films - A Ranking
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marhefka — 12 years ago(September 01, 2013 06:39 PM)
@first-things-first
What a coincidence!! We have exactly the same five films in our top 5. I'm even going to change my ranking to make Rebecca no. 1. What's your opinion of Strangers on a Train? I like it a lot, maybe even top 5. -
first-things-first — 12 years ago(September 02, 2013 06:25 AM)
It's been a long time since I have seen the movie, and only remembered the ending so I went to the search library wiki. I found the plot sad. You are trapped in unhappy situations and believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness. In Guy's situation, who had the money, him or his wife? If it was his money, he could leave. So what about his reputation, his wife was cheating and he wanted out, pay her whatever for your freedom. If the money was hers, he was greedy. I did note that it seems the laws protected women more than men, preventing them from leaving any woman, giving her a pass. I could understand how it destroyed some of his humanity.
As for Bruno, I'm not sure how he allowed himself to lose his humanity, not to value it. It's perplexing, because he had the presence of mind to not incriminate himself (killing his father), but could kill a stranger. What was going on in his home, to make him want to kill his father, what acts or lack of love prompted the hate? Or was his family the victim of his character? He seemed to follow a set of rules, and applied this logic to his father and deemed he unacceptable. The question is who taught him the rules, his father or society.
From my point of view, we can think of evil, and maybe speak of it. But only a certain population can do it. Half of my brain believes that thinking and speaking it is wrong, so we are not better clinging to a love in our hearts that we are safe. But certain situations trigger violent responses, so we must always be on guard to protect our humanity. I hear stories how people forgive attackers, and pray that I am one of them. That's not to say someone should not protect themselves from harm.
And yes, from the summary, it sounds better than Dial M for Murder, and would make my top 5.
she loved poetry and romance, but she hit the glass ceiling at birth -
francescafay11 — 12 years ago(November 26, 2013 08:35 AM)
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Strangers on a Train
- The 39 Steps
- Rebecca
- Vertigo
(If we're just doing his American films then I would move 4 & 5 up and put either Spellbound or Foreign Correspondent at #5) - Spellbound
- Foreign Correspondent
- The Lady Vanishes
- Psycho
- Lifeboat or Rope (I can't decide
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I've seen all of Hitchcock's feature films (except of course "The Mountain Eagle"), so narrowing this list down was very hard with so many great films to choose from. Every one of his films has something to recommend it.
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marhefka — 12 years ago(November 26, 2013 06:13 PM)
We're on the same page except for The 39 Steps. I've seen 24 Hitchcock films but have never seen this one. I note that it has a very good IMDB rating of 7.9. Even more impressive is the no. of voters - over 32,000. Also, I see that it's available on youtube so I plan on watching it soon.
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apriceaboverubies29 — 12 years ago(February 28, 2014 09:25 PM)
- North by Northwest
- Vertigo
- Rear Window
- Rebecca
- The Birds
- Shadow of a Doubt
- To Catch a Thief
- Marnie
10.Psycho
11.Lifeboat
12.The Trouble with Harry
13.Notorious
14.The Paradine Case
15.Spellbound
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