Monday, February 05, 2024
See “Revenge,” from Alfred Hitchcock Presents
[“On Monday Night, TCM is having Alfred Hitchcock night; It Starts at 8 p.m. ET with Notorious (1946), Followed by The Wrong Man (1956), I Confess (1953), The 39 Steps (1935), The Lady Vanishes (1938) and The Girl Was Young (1937).”]
By RM
monday, february 5, 2024 at 3:29:00 p.m. est
Same old, same old. A marathon of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes directed by Hitch would be more interesting, even if a lot of them weren’t all that great (Vincent Price did one, and said in an interview that Hitchcock slept in his chair through most of the shooting, only giving the actors one bit of advice- “A little faster!”). The best ones Hitch did were probably “Breakdown” (the first one made, a classic with Joe Cotten) and “Revenge” (the first episode aired, with Ralph Meeker, and a good example of pure Hitchcock style). -RM
N.S.: Well, who wants to see a top 100 masterpiece, like Notorious, when he can see a mediocre Hitchcock tv thriller? RM, you definitely have an ornery side to you!
By RM
monday, february 5, 2024 at 7:22:00 p.m. est
Well, here’s “Revenge,” at least:
https://archive.org/details/alfred.-hitchcock.-presents.-s-01-e-01.-dvdrip.-xvi-d-rle -RM
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"Ornery"? I'll take that as a compliment! If someone is interested in a director's work, I don't think his TV work should be neglected. Peckinpah and Altman, among many others, certainly did notable TV episodes (and in the latter's case, the TV shows were usually better than his movies!). NOTORIOUS is great but has been shown to death- REVENGE is Hitchcock taking a contrived story (like most of the TV episodes) and making it chillingly effective. From his low-budget, time-constrained TV style eventually came PSYCHO. -RM
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