Film Comment (1979) - Hitchcock: a Defense and an Update
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- article: Hitchcock: a Defense and an Update
- author(s): Joseph McBride & David Lubin
- journal: Film Comment (01/May/1979)
- issue: volume 15, issue 3, page 66
- journal ISSN: 0015-119X
- Sloan's Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography: pages 433-34, #524-25
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville, American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, Bernard Herrmann, Bette Davis, Bruce Dern, Cary Grant, Chasen's Restaurant, Los Angeles, California, David Freeman, David Lubin, David Thomson, Ernest Lehman, Family Plot (1976), François Truffaut, Frenzy (1972), Henry Fonda, James Stewart, John Russell Taylor, Joseph McBride, Mary Rose, Motion picture directors & producers, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, North by Northwest (1959), Notorious (1946), Poetry, Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), Roger O. Thornhill, Rope (1948), Royal Albert Hall, London, Sean Connery, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Strangers on a Train (1951), The Birds (1963), The Short Night, Universal Studios, Vertigo (1958), William Devane
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Abstract
Though the script calls for several elaborate visual setpieces in the tradition of Hitchcock's classic thrillers (including a bravura aerial tracking shot which is meticulously described over a page and a half in the screenplay, and a climactic train chase across the Russian border), Hitchcock's associates say it is not so much the visual mechanics which engage his fascination, but, as always, the interplay of suspicion and trust in the suspenseful love story.
Notes
Responses to David Thomson's article "The Big Hitch".
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