What's your favorite Alfred Hitchcock movie?

[Lavender Brown]

I've always liked "Notorious" with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. It supposedly has one of the longest kisses in movie history. :)

[NuckinFutz]

1. Rear Window

I also liked Marnie

[leftofthedial]

46. yup

Rear Window

[Misunderestimator]

2. Rear Window

[Union Thug]

3. Rebecca /eom

[tjdee]

4. Suspicion baby.

Suspicion is my hands down favorite.

Then Notorious.
Then North by Northwest.

I am in love with Archibald Leach, and there's nothing to be done about it.

[Lavender Brown]

15. me too

I'll watch anything with him in it. :)

[redqueen]

5. North by Northwest

[cmf]

6. Hopping on the Rear Window train

I love that movie.

[pagerbear]

28. Me too

But the others are simply wonderful too!

[Kid_A]

7. "Psycho" is the obvious choice...

...but it's the obvious choice for a reason. It's still the best slasher flick ever made.

I also really dig "Rear Window".

[bigwillq]

10. Psycho is my fave

Rear Window is also vey good.

[Lavender Brown]

12. It's hard to forget Psycho

For some reason I've always liked his 40s and 50s movies more.

[tjdee]

14. Psycho was really genius.

You think it's a movie about Janet Leigh getting out of town, and then it takes a wild turn.

Amazing. I saw a "making of" or "behind Hitchcock" or something, and I never understood what a big deal Psycho was. I didn't realize Janet Leigh was a big star, for example. What a mindfuck that shower scene must have been, LOL. That's the best "OMG NOW what's going to happen?" moment of all time.

[Minstrel Boy]

8. Shadow of a Doubt

I think James Cotton's "Uncle Charlie" is one of the great, creepy villains.

[Zuni]

36. That was Hitchcock's personal favorite and mine as well

I really liked that one. The leading lady was beautiful.

[RaleighNCDUer]

45. Oh, yeah! Forgot that one. Terriffic!

Saw it for the first time just a couple years ago, and it's right up there with the best.

[flamingyouth]

9. So many to choose from

Notorious
Rear Window
The Birds
Psycho
North by Northwest

...I can't pick just one! :D

[candy]

26. The Birds is mine.

And I even remember reading the original story which was in a magazine in the fifties-----Daphne DuMaurier(I think) wrote it.

[daddybear]

42. Ditto....

my fave, too...

[On the Road]

11. The 39 Steps

[kick-ass-bob]

13. Argh. Notorious, Rear Window, Vertigo.

I think I'll go with Rear Window. But barely.

[tjdee]

18. Vertigo is STILL one of the creepiest movies ever.

I guess they did that on purpose LOL.

I'm very uncomfortable watching Jimmy Stewart in that role.

I'm surprised they've not made a remake of that one, actually.

[Lavender Brown]

23. I hope they don't

Can you imagine... they'll cast people totally wrong for it for box office reasons. :P

[tjdee]

24. Like they did with Charade???

I mean, Mark Wahlberg? Really??

(Okay, that's not a Hitch film, but it was a Cary film.)

[Lavender Brown]

29. And the Dial M Remake "A Perfect Murder"

I mean, it had Viggo in it, so it was watchable... but Michael Douglas gives me the creeps already, without having to play a psycho husband.

[tjdee]

31. Yeah really. I don't get Douglas.

Now Kirk was hot.

But Michael...and he looks a lot like his dad...I don't know. Never got him as an "attractive man". Plus he had plastic surgery on his eyes, right? Or some kind of lift? And he looked better before!

[WI_DEM]

54. and "Charade" was clearly inspired by Hitchcock

not a bad film either.

[Blue_Tires]

16. vertigo

[XNASA]

17. Rope

Very interesting movie done in one complete take.

[tom_paine]

20. Yep. Rope outstrips them all.

And almost no one even knows it exists!

[tjdee]

21. I don't! What's it about?

That's really interesting, one complete take.

[XNASA]

30. It's based on the Leopold - Loeb murder case.

Two rich college boys try to get away with murder.

The movie takes place in a fashionable apartment and is done in one take. Since a movie reel can only hold so much film, the cuts between reels fade to dark. One example, the camera pans into the back of Jimmy Stewart's black suit coat from the left and when it comes back out the right side another camera/reel is being used.

It's quite ingenious.

[tjdee]

39. Ooh. The Leopold/Loeb case.

That's another thing I'm surprised they've not made a film of lately.

Can't believe I've never heard of this Hitch film. Cool name, cool topic, big star...in one take....will look it up.

[XNASA]

25. If a movie has Farley Granger in it..........I'm there.

[Cyrano]

19. I think his scariest was Fahrenheit 911.

Okay, so Michael Moore was channeling Hitchcock.

[WI_DEM]

22. North by Northwest has all the classic Hitchcock ingredients

suspense, drama, comedy, cool blonde, the hero accused of a crime he didn't commit and on the run. And who can ever forget Cary Grant in a elegantly tailored suit being chased by the crop plane?

But honorable mentions as well to: Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Dial M for Murder, Strangers on a Train and Vertigo...

[mac56]

27. Dial M For Murder

Although North by Northwest is hard to beat.

Least favorite: The Jimmy Stewart-Doris Day version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much".

[tjdee]

32. Oh BOY I saw that the other night!

Doris Day in a Hitchcock film is very, very wrong. First of all.

[mac56]

33. Although Hitch did have a thing for servile blondes in his films.

Doris Day - Eva Marie Saint - Grace Kelly - etc.

[tjdee]

34. Man, if he were alive today I'd hate his guts, LOL!

All about blondes, that guy.
That would piss me off somethin' awful.

And I agree with the servile/not as strong as the big strong man parts, but I tend to think that was more reflective of the period (maybe?). And Doris Day really highlighted it to a greater degree than the others.

[Zuni]

35. either Rear Window or Shadow of a Doubt

or maybe Pyscho. Or maybe the Birds. I love Alfred Hitchcock movbies.

[tjdee]

47. The end of The Birds....?????????

The end is kind of like "There will be no resolving of the plot for you!"

That was kind of weird I thought.
Doesn't she just leave town? Can't remember.

[Zuni]

48. A story about that movie

My mother told me that when 'The Birds' came out, she went to go see it with my grandmother. After the movie, they were leaving the theater and my lil' old grandmother took her umbrella and whacked a pigeon with it.

[tjdee]

49. Oh no!

That's funny!

[RaleighNCDUer]

37. How to choose? 'Rope'. For its phenomenal camera work.

'Notorious': its depth and complexity
'Vertigo', 'Strangers on a Train', 'Psycho'

'North by Northwest' -- it could never be redone, can't be improved on.

Always get caught up in '39 Steps', no matter how often I see it.

'The Trouble with Harry' -- a Hitchcock comedy!

Of course, 'Rear Window' (gotta say I like the Chris Reeve remake)

Question is, can you think of any Hitchcock you didn't like?

[tjdee]

38. Woops, this was supposed to go to Zuni....

:crazy:

[Lavender Brown]

41. I don't really like "Marnie" or "Topaz."

But I like everything else.

[Devil Dog Dem]

40. North by Northwest

Cary Grant at his finest.

[Kahuna]

43. Bergman was excellent in Notorious. I'd give the nod to..

Notorious based solely on her performance. Not to ever not give honorable mention to Grant, who is my favorite heart throb actor of all time, but Bergman steals the show. As she does in every movie she has ever appeared in.

[sundog]

44. Vertigo - hands down

[FunBobbyMucha]

50. Either "Dressed to Kill" or "Body Double."

JOKING!

Probably "N by NW," but I love Perkins so much in Psycho (my fave performance in an AH film, for sure) that it skewers the bell curve. NbNW was certainly more cinematic, though.

Must confess, never did like Vertigo. It bores me when it's not putting me to sleep. I want to like it, what with KN, JS, etc, but fuck me!

[tjdee]

51. I found Perkins awfully adorable in Psycho.

Which I think Hitch kind of hoped for.
Great great job. Very effective.

What's he like in the other Psycho films?

[FunBobbyMucha]

52. Perkins was still great at the role, it's just that he

didn't have much to work with in the sequels. I mean, c'mon, somebody decided to do a sequel to Hitchcock?!

[Downtown Hound]

53. Psycho

followed by Vertigo, Rear Window, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.