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From the beginning, where a knife is planted in the lady's back but the sleeping Rob't. Donat is NOT attacked, it is hard to suspend belief (quite different from suspending thought...).
I found myself thinking throughout most of the film that he should have taken the farmer's wife...she certainly was more appealing than the cold-fish blonde.
It was an earlier version of "The Fugitive," but the antagonist was curiously undeveloped, i.e. you never got to fear or hate him.
Entertaining? Yes, but hardly worthy of all the praise.
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. . . but it IS quite dated.Yes, they DID make movies differently back then. The movie feels stilted and overacted by todays standards. Typical of the times.
It's Hitchcock learning his trade, finding his feet. Bad by later Hitch standards, but better than most of his contemporaries.
That doesn't change the fact that his worse is still better than most directors could or can do. Even a lesser Hitchcock like "The Birds" or "Marnie" is still superior entertainment.What do you think is the best Hitchcock film? My favorite, among many, has to be 1940's glorious "Rebecca."
I never tire of seeing that one...particularly notable to me is the performance of George Sanders as the unctious, despicable and charming Jack Favell. So many great scenes-the revelation of Rebecca's fate to a stunned Mrs. DeWinter in the boathouse... Mrs. Danvers encouraging her to commit suicide after the debacle of the ball....Favell's attempt to extort money from DeWinter in exchange for keeping quiet about Rebecca's fate.I may have to find time to watch it again this weekend.
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them".
-P. J. O'Rourke
G.S is very good as he was in " the Foreign Correspondant "
ff....wonderful..
He also plays a great cad in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".
his turn in the classic "All About Eve." Intelligent, cynical, conniving - the quintessential George Sanders in a role that must have been written with him in mind.
A professional cad.
I like this moovie.
He was also a great cad in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".
Probably "North By Northwest". A classic combination of "wrong man" and road picture. Killer score by Herriman.Rebecca is great tho . . . So is "To catch a Thief". And who can forget the spectacular staged feel of "Rear Window"? Or the black humor of "The Trouble with Harry"? Being a San Francisco area native, "Vertigo" holds a special place for me too. Ugh, no way to narrow it down.
" To catch " I never did found it good, just bad Hitch vintage.
" The Trouble " is actually underrated...a so fine sense of humor..wonderful
Tough call, here, with so many competing choices but I think many would agree that Vertigo is Hitchcock's finest.
Shadow of a doubt maybe the one.
The Birds a lesser film ?
Go have a look at him.
Forget the Birds..look at the story behind.
No. Absolutely not.
It would be stupid to look at details like the knife scene as the whole film is for today on the " naive side " as are the criminal novels from that time.
R.Donat is a wonderful actor ( Bye bye Mr. Chips is comind on DVD, by the way ), and it is pure joy to follow the images and the plot, and the characteres, without forgetting the humor. Hitch British period save the last is wonderful, with still an heavy influence from the German movie.....from Young & Innocents ( may favorite ) to The Lady vanished...all are just encountable pleasures.
Taking the farmer´s wife as she sleept in his man bed...?
Or a " petit menage a trois " my friend?
No paise high enough in this genre.
I love it.
And the scene in the hotel...They are just a runaway couple.....Wonderful!
argument about things were different then! Poe wrote terrific detective stories many years before this...And Balzac wrote "realistic" adventure novels in the 19th century: "The Thirteen," for one.
Later today, I'll watch "The Lovers," with the young Ms. Moreau.
BUT.
I do not try.
For me this film works magic.Ever had ever will.Jules and Jim.
Is her best. And she can sing too!
worst of all "art" films. Deadly boring. Deadly. L'amour, toujours l'...merde. And Moreau just looks like a cow. Maybe if she were Anna Karina...but still, Jeanne has all the warmth of an icicle.
I am mystified by the reputation of this film!
Myself if I would not like this film but instead the " Two Towers "......
Bhäää....
You last word Patrick... with my viwer set to Cyrillic encoding, your last word looks very much like one of bad Russian words.Perhaps that was subliminable (sic)?
Your encoding is right.
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