Torn Curtain.. and other less celebrated Hitchcock films

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If I'd had time, I would have liked to have seen Rear Window again this weekend, just to see Grace Kelly and the climax with Raymond Burr. "What do you want from me?"

I see that 1/4 is failed experiment night! "Essential", indeed! The Wrong Man is OK although boring and not very "Hitchcock", but Rope is awful! Are there any good movies that are straight adaptations of mediocre stage plays?

Spellbound is lame and corny even for Hitchcock, but it might be fun to go and laugh at the rear projection skiing and the Dalí scenes. The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps will be a fun double bill, even though they don't come close to touching the later, more "Hitchcock" stuff. I wish I could be around to see Strangers on a Train and I Confess. I didn't even know that Montgomery Clift did a Hitchcock film!

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 12 December 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link

And it's also got Anne Baxter in it, from back when she was still hot! Bummer.

― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 12 December 2005 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I love The Wrong Man. I love I Confess almost as much.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2005 06:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Eric lovin' the uber-Catholic Hitch!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I know. I'm not even Catholic. Maybe that's why.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i confess is solid, i think. hitchcock does some evocative work with the quebec locations, and clift's woodenness works to his advantage. the last scene -- that long shot with keller looking so small and wounded in front of the stage -- is pretty great. the half-hour flashback in the middle bugs me.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

posting this here too (re: No Country For Old Men)
watching Torn Curtain. definitely getting an Anton Chigurh vibe off Wolfgang Kieling as Hermann Gromek. especially the provocative unyielding stare while mockingly repeating back what was said to him. wonder if his performance/character was one of the inspirations for the Coens/Bardem? he's the highlight of the film for me so far (even over the infamous *no-spoiler* Hitchcockian scene).

by the way, Carolyn Conwell really is a DEAD RINGER (no double meaning intended) for Liv Ullman!

― Paul, Saturday, 29 July 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link

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