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52 Weeks of Hitchcock: 14. Torn Curtain (Patreon)

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2021-04-03 21:31:00
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The series continues with Hitchcock's 50th film. Not one of his best-liked or his best, but some interesting things to talk about.

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52 Weeks of Hitchcock: 14. Torn Curtain

Robin talks about Hitchcock's 50th film and one which doesn't generally get a lot of love.

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Stephen Crane

I really think that Hitchcock's foolishness with Tippi Hedren and the fallout was his finish. In my opinion, none of the films post Marnie are worthy of his name on them. There are flashes of the old Hitchcock magic but it's like watching an old sportsman whose brain knows what he wants to do but his body refuses to do it.

Joseph Dougherty

I remember liking the sequence with the counterfeit bus. I wonder what sort of a movie we would have gotten if Hitchcock could have worked with Hugh Whitemore.

Anonymous

Okay, the studio pushes actors on him, sets a schedule, cuts his budget and generally screws him over. Then they get tetched when the resultant movie doesn't set the world on fire? So the whole WB Justice League/Suicide Squad fiascos have an ancient and noble lineage? Love it!

Anonymous

Engaging, entertaining & informative, as always.

Anonymous

I find it interesting that the more directors like Hitchcock tried to "modernize" themselves, the more they managed to latch onto elements, like "pop" in the soundtrack and so on, that date a film faster than anything else they could have done. When you watch a movie like The Lady Vanishes, it seems timeless--everything on screen, over a century old by this point, is perfectly fresh and funny and suspenseful. But when a film is being force-fed the latest stars and fashions and music it's like watching a time-elapse sequence of a flower dying.

Anonymous

Great video. My main thought was Newman was a bit wooden and Andrews overcompensated for it. The other thing is how much of musical motifs Addison later reused in ‘Murder, She Wrote’.