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Finally watched North by Northwest (1959) for the first time
Posted on 11/5/24 at 7:51 pm
Posted on 11/5/24 at 7:51 pm
Was never a huge Hitchcock fan, but I make an effort to watch his big films when they come on TCM.
Sure the film is quite take now, but you can absolutely see the blueprint for the modern big budget action/spy thriller genre. James Bond, Mission Impossible, Jack Ryan, etc all owe this film a huge debt.
And My goodness could Hitchcock shoot beautiful women.
Eva Marie Saint never came close to looking like she did in NxNW. She was stunning in this picture.
This post was edited on 11/5/24 at 7:54 pm
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Posted on 11/5/24 at 9:43 pm to Jack Ruby
Love this movie. One of the best I've ever seen.
Posted on 11/5/24 at 10:10 pm to Jack Ruby
I love it, but's a much less serious effort IMO than the other 3-4 classics from Hitchcock.
You to love the huge audience troll in the final 2 seconds of the film.
You to love the huge audience troll in the final 2 seconds of the film.
Posted on 11/5/24 at 10:20 pm to Jack Ruby
What’s your thoughts on Rear Window?
Posted on 11/6/24 at 12:10 am to smash williams
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What’s your thoughts on Rear Window
These are the only Hitchcock films I've seen. The only thing thing that could put Rrar Window above NxNW is Grace Kelly.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 7:26 am to Jack Ruby
I remember being mesmerized by the suit…how could one dude look so goddamn good in a single suit?
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A panel of fashion experts convened by GQ in 2006 said the gray suit worn by Cary Grant throughout almost the entire film was the best suit in film history, and the most influential on men's style
Posted on 11/6/24 at 7:31 am to Jack Ruby
One of Hitchcocks best. My #1 of his movies.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 7:47 am to Jack Ruby
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Finally watched North by Northwest (1959) for the first time
I recorded this last week to watch because I've never seen it as well. I plan on watching it soon.
ETA: Rear Window was absolutely excellent. Watched that one a few years ago.
This post was edited on 11/6/24 at 7:48 am
Posted on 11/6/24 at 8:28 am to CocomoLSU
If you haven't seen Vertigo, make some time to watch it. Excellent as well.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 8:59 am to CocomoLSU
If you like movies, you should probably give one of the greatest directors of all time a shot: Notorious, Strangers On a Train, Spellbound, Dial M for Murder in addition to what has been suggested already.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 10:10 am to rebelrouser
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If you haven't seen Vertigo, make some time to watch it. Excellent as well.
I saw Vertigo about a year or so ago. I liked it, but I was sort of disappointed in it. It wasn't what I thought it was gonna be at all. But I did enjoy it.
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If you like movies, you should probably give one of the greatest directors of all time a shot: Notorious, Strangers On a Train, Spellbound, Dial M for Murder in addition to what has been suggested already.
I've seen a handful of Hitchcock movies. I got on a kick a few years back and bought/watched some of them.
I've seen:
Shadow of a Doubt
Birds
Psycho
Rear Window
Vertigo
Rope
Strangers on a Train
I think that's it so far. May be one I'm forgetting. They weren't all excellent, but I've enjoyed them all (and some are obviously excellent).
Posted on 11/6/24 at 10:17 am to Big Scrub TX
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but's a much less serious effort IMO than the other 3-4 classics from Hitchcock.
3-4?
NXNW
Psycho
Dial M for Murder
Vertigo
Rebecca
The Birds
Rear Window
Shadow of a Doubt
The 39 Steps
Rope
I could argue quite a few more are true classics, but I'll stop there.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 10:59 am to rebelrouser
quote:this one is my favorite. Masterpiece performance by ray milland and grace Kelly may have been the most beautiful woman ever to live
Dial M for Murder
Posted on 11/6/24 at 11:16 am to cgrand
My favorite as well. Well I go back and forth between it and Psycho but Dial M for Murder is easily his most underrated. Just a incredible film and a unique story in a genre that is kind of hard to be unique. And like you say, A+ acting all around.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 11:47 am to Jack Ruby
In October of 1984, when I visited Chicago for a convention, I stayed in the Ambassador East Hotel and had a couple of meals in The Pump Room. We stayed there because my boss loved this movie, & thought it would be cool to stay there.
The Pump Room was immediately to the left once you entered the Hotel. I picked up the bar bill at a dinner for four there. That cost me $180. Twenty dollars more than the room was per night. That was pretty pricey for 1984.The wall on the left of the hotel entrance outside the restaurant & bar was covered with photos of celebrities taken inside.I learned that Sinatra always got a whole floor when he stayed there.
First thru third grade I wanted to be a garbage man. I thought it would be cool to go thru everyone's garbage. After I saw North By Northwest in the 6th grade, I wanted to be a lawyer. At least that's what I said. Why be a lawyer? So I could wear suits. I really just wanted to wear suits and look cool.
Carry Grant looks great in anything. He made coveralls look great pretending to be a "Red Cap" at the train station.
He's the only guy that could get away with calling the desk at the Ambassador East and saying, "How quickly can you get a suit sponged and pressed?"
My favorite line in the movie is him being the coolest coward ever.
"Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed."
I use part of this quote in some of my online passwords.
Great movie, that I'll watch again soon.
The Pump Room was immediately to the left once you entered the Hotel. I picked up the bar bill at a dinner for four there. That cost me $180. Twenty dollars more than the room was per night. That was pretty pricey for 1984.The wall on the left of the hotel entrance outside the restaurant & bar was covered with photos of celebrities taken inside.I learned that Sinatra always got a whole floor when he stayed there.
First thru third grade I wanted to be a garbage man. I thought it would be cool to go thru everyone's garbage. After I saw North By Northwest in the 6th grade, I wanted to be a lawyer. At least that's what I said. Why be a lawyer? So I could wear suits. I really just wanted to wear suits and look cool.
Carry Grant looks great in anything. He made coveralls look great pretending to be a "Red Cap" at the train station.
He's the only guy that could get away with calling the desk at the Ambassador East and saying, "How quickly can you get a suit sponged and pressed?"
My favorite line in the movie is him being the coolest coward ever.
"Now you listen to me, I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed."
I use part of this quote in some of my online passwords.
Great movie, that I'll watch again soon.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 12:52 pm to Big Scrub TX
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I love it, but's a much less serious effort IMO than the other 3-4 classics from Hitchcock.
Precisely, succinctly....explanation.
Posted on 11/6/24 at 2:15 pm to CocomoLSU
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I saw Vertigo about a year or so ago. I liked it, but I was sort of disappointed in it. It wasn't what I thought it was gonna be at all. But I did enjoy it.
It bombed when it came out and was panned by critics. It is now considered one of the greatest movies of all time by many. If you take it at face value, i can see why you may be somewhat disappointed as the plot is kind of a stretch but if you know it is about Alfred Hitchcock and his sexual obsession and abusive treatment of Tippi Hedrin it is pretty interesting. The cinematography, directing, and editing are really well done. It also created the dolly zoom (also called the Vertigo effect) you famously saw in Jaws and a lot of subsequent movies. The dolly zoom begins at :20
Posted on 11/6/24 at 2:19 pm to Jack Ruby
One of my favorite movies of all time. I consider Cary Grant the sexiest leading man in cinema history (no homo).
Posted on 11/6/24 at 2:33 pm to chinese58
quote:thanks so much for posting
chinese58
watched it last night for the umpteenth time, one of my all time favorites - an almost perfectly executed film filled with memorable scenes
my 24-year old daughter is a huge Cary Grant fan - she particularly enjoyed the scene where he escapes from the hospital
he was 54 years old in that film - in amazingly good shape
Posted on 11/6/24 at 2:39 pm to Jack Ruby
Did you notice the little boy covering his ears before the gunshots?
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