Poll
Question:
What's your favorite Hitchcock film?
Option 1: Psycho
votes: 1
Option 2: Vertigo
votes: 2
Option 3: North by Northwest
votes: 5
Option 4: Rear Window
votes: 5
Option 5: The Birds
votes: 2
Option 6: Strangers on a Train
votes: 0
Option 7: Rebecca
votes: 1
Option 8: Notorious
votes: 0
Option 9: Rope
votes: 0
Option 10: The Man Who Knew Too Much
votes: 0
Option 11: Dial M For Murder
votes: 1
Option 12: Stage Fright
votes: 0
Option 13: Spellbound
votes: 0
Option 14: Lifeboat
votes: 1
Option 15: Frenzy
votes: 0
Option 16: Torn Curtain
votes: 0
Option 17: Marnie
votes: 0
Option 18: The Trouble with Harry
votes: 2
Option 19: Other
votes: 1
Option 20: Don't Know
votes: 1
So many good choices. :hmm:
The Lady Vanishes :bowler:
Of the ones listed it was a hard choice between "Rebecca" and "Strangers on a Train." I went with "Rebecca" due to Joan Fontaine's performance. I read that Hitchcock had secretly instructed everyone on the set be mean to her so she'd feel isolated.
You should have put "High Anxiety" as an option. ;)
Dial M for Murder is the one I can watch multiple times and enjoy. North by Northwest also ranks up high, but unfortunately after the first go through, you start wondering why you'd want to quietly kill someone with a machine gun mounted on a crop duster.
Rear Window launched my lifelong mancrush on Jimmy Stewart, so I'll have to go with that one.
Having said that, Strangers on a Train and Psycho are close runners-up.
Rear Window; Hitchcock was never on better form, nor better served by cast and screenplay.
Notorious. Some of my favorite dialogue ever.
To Catch A Thief. No contest.
And the best Hitchcock movie by another director? Charade, by Stanley Donen.