October 18, 2008
Whatever will be, will be
Doris Day in “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
50 Hitchcock's memorable moments
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March 29, 2008
Calling Roger Thornhill
(From Filmscreed)
Other trailers: Vertigo, Rear window, To Catch a Thief, Suspicion. (All YouTube's)
Concentration Camp Filmed, Documentary By Alfred Hitchcock In 1945. Part 1/6 (Graphic warning)
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March 15, 2008
The trailer for "Family Plot" (1976)
(With Bruce Dern!)
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! Today – Karen’s Verbatim. Submit yours for consideration.
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February 25, 2008
The perfect cure for a sore throat
Famous scenes from Hitchcock movies shot with current stars at Vanity Fair.
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January 15, 2008
The Key to Reserva
Martin Scoresese’s The Key to Reserva, a “lost” Hitchcock script
Cary Grant in North by Northwest: 'It’s by far the best suit in the movie, in the movies, perhaps the whole world.' Cary Grant's Suit by Todd McEwen. (From Exploding Aardvark)
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November 24, 2007
Hitchcock Devoured by pigeons
"1000 Frames of Hitchcock" is an attempt to reduce each of the 52 available major Hitchcock films down to just 1000 frames
'The Trouble with Harry' Screenshot Gallery
John Landis introduces the Psycho Trailer from Hell
TGIF: The .gif Friday Post VII
My Name Is Norman Bates by Landscape, and animated shower. (From a Miss Lynnster’s thread about the Shower scene)
More: Shower scene played by Potato Heads
(Pigeon video above by Juan Mingarro)
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June 27, 2007
Bang! You're Dead
Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Made the Movies. (1973 by Richard Schickel. Narrated by Cliff Robertson)
12 parts of The Hitchcock/Truffaut Tapes at the incredible If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
How to turn your boring movie into a Hitchcock thriller
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March 10, 2006
The man who knew too much
My trip to The Bates Motel at RetroCrush (With the usual horrible popups)
This and many other photos of Hitchcock
Hitchcock directing Doris Day and James Stewart, in Marakesh
Hitchcock's Five Basic Plot Formations
Hitchcock Eyes. The eye is the window to the soul. Eyes are also the instruments of voyeurism and the gaze. Eyes are also crucial in the reaction-shot sequence, a form of point of view shooting characteristic of Hitchcock: we see a character looking, then what the character is seeing, then the character's reaction
Atom Egoyan’s tribute to the “Master of suspense”
Real-Life Stranger On A Train Less Interesting Than Hitchcock Version
Leonard South, camera operator on "The Birds" and "North by Northwest,", dead at 92
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August 27, 2005
Dial M
Hitchcock's "elevator story" as told by Peter Bogdanovich
Hitchcock at War. Despite being unfit for active military service, Hitchcock was very keen to contribute to the war effort, especially after a snide comment by his former producer Michael Balcon about "plump" British directors going to Hollywood "while we who are left behind short-handed are trying to harness the films to our great national effort"
IMDb rating of Hitchcock’s 53 movies
Joe Bob Briggs interviews Tippi Hedren
Film still collection from all movies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Episode guide, including air dates, cast and crew, and plot synopses, 1955-1960
Grab a graphic to link to Grow-a-Brain, the No. 1 Google result for Who we’all honorin’ here today?
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April 21, 2005
Notorious
Here's a video with the shower scenes from Hitchcock's Psycho and Van Sant's shot-for-shot re-shoot of it transparently overlayed on each other. (From Jwz)
Shooting script of North By Northwest, and some other of Hitchcock Script Collection
A Russian site with Soundtracks of Hitchcock’s movies (Some broken links)
Fashion of the Hitchcock chic. (From ”Quiddity”)
Hitchcock blondes and many other memorable Hitchcock Images. (From “Exclamation Mark”, who has another Hitchcock posting today: Tippi Hedren talks about 'The Birds')
Universal Studio’s Hitchcock site
The Art of Saul Bass and other title designers
• The film only cost $800,000 to make yet has earned more than $40,000,000. Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money. In 1962 exchanged the rights to the film and his TV-series for a huge block of MCA's stock (he became their third largest stockholder).
• Robert Bloch's original novel was inspired by the notorious serial killer Ed Gein who was also one of the inspirations for the character of Hannibal Lector (The Silence of the Lambs/Manhunter).
• Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for just $9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to keep the ending a secret.
• During the shooting of the shower scene, Hitchcock arranged for the water to suddenly go ice-cold when the attack started.
• Hitchcock originally envisioned the shower sequence as completely silent, but Bernard Herrmann went ahead and scored it anyway and Hitch immediately changed his mind.
• The blood in the shower scene is actually chocolate sauce.
• The shot of Janet Leigh flushing the toilet is believed to be the first such shot in American cinema history.
• Hitchcock tested the "fear factor" of mother's corpse by placing it in Janet Leigh's dressing room and listening to how loud she screamed when she discovered it.
• The MPAA refused to pass this film because they claimed to be able to see Janet Leigh's nipple during the shower scene. Hitchcock didn't edit it out, but merely sent it back, (correctly, it seems) assuming that they either wouldn't bother to watch it, or miss it the second time.
• Hitchcock insisted that audiences should only be allowed to see the film from the start so as not to ruin the surprise. This was unheard of back then as people were used to just coming in at any point during a movie.
• After the film's release Hitchcock received an angry letter from the father of a girl who refused to have a bath after seeing Diabolique and now refused to shower after seeing Psycho. Hitch sent a note back simply saying "Send her to the dry cleaners".
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January 06, 2005
“Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime”
Staircases in Hitchcock's films almost always lead to trouble. For Hitchcock, the simple act of going up a staircase seemed to be a disorienting experience, taking you away from safety towards the unknown
Transgender interpretation of the romantic dining car scene from North by Northwest - Great moments in film history # 7
A scene from “Rope” by O.K. Maercks. One of the nicer samples of thrift store art
Did you know that Hitchcock even made a cameo appearance in his own funeral?
Saul Bass title designer and one of Hitchcock’s most famous collaborators
Bodega Bay Location for "The Birds"
Psycho, The internet screenplay. Notorious screenplay. (Sorry, a Geocities site)
Hitchcock movie posters. (A commercial site)
Mystery Authors, from Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Johan Grimonprez's new film project Looking for Alfred
Wide Screen Vertigo. Also, Use of Profiles in Vertigo
"I Confess": Visions of Guilt and Innocence in Hitchcock's films
(Unrelated, but I must post it immediately: This clear glycerin soap contains a real razor blade. (From ""Jaf Project")
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April 11, 2004
Hitchcock Anecdotes
“Looking for Alfred Hitchcock”, A Belgian film company put out this casting call for an Alfred Hitchcock look-alike. (From “J-Walk” )
In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock released a classic horror film which raised many eyebrows for breaking a long-standing Hollywood taboo: "Psycho" was the first film in history to show a toilet being flushed. More Hitchcock Anecdotes there
C.F. Payne's caricature of Baby Alfred
The 'MacGuffin' website, where Hitchcock scholars meet.
Hitchcock at work (From “Universal Archives”)
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February 06, 2004
The 2003 Hitchcock link collection from the old "Grow-a-Brain"
Hitchcock Cigar Box (From Hollywood: Manuscripts and Memorabilia by way of "Caterina")
Advertising Hitchcock (Tripod - sorry) - 8/16/03
Bernard Herrmann - from "Citizen Kane" To "Taxi Driver"
Edit your own version of "Psycho" Shower Scene
Giant Hitchcock Head Facing Hollywood
Hitchcock's cameos , all of them! (From Eliot Gelwan's "Follow Me Here" - 11/11/03)
Hitchcock's Look-alike . (From "Incoming Signals" - 11/25/03)
Hitchcock Reviews (From "Images")
17 Mosaics of scenes from Hitchcock's films
"Senses of Cinema" Hitchcock articles - 1/11/04
The Master's Fetishes (From "Quiddity") - 12/ 14/03
Wit & Wisdom from "Master of Suspense"
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