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My first Alfred Hitchcock movie and what a banger! But, does anyone have any pain killers for my head? 🤯

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Ted Little

One of the reasons Hitchcock was called the Master of Suspense, is that each of his movies is suspenseful in a different way and keeps you guessing till the end. You are going to receive all sorts of suggestions for his films and they are all going to be valid, but I want to put in a recommendation for some of his earlier films made in England. Made without the resources of the Hollywood studios, they are simpler but delightful. The 39 Steps will be of especial interest to you. The Lady Vanishes is also great fun.

Dean J

Kim Novak played both Judy and the woman pretending to be his wife. We never actually saw his wife, except falling to her death. You kept commenting on how they shouldn’t get together because she was married, but she wasn’t really married. But, Jimmy Stewart didn’t know that. And since she faked it all, even jumping into the bay, that means she was awake when he stripped her naked. One thing that’s always confused me, both times when he drives to the old Mission, he’s driving on the wrong side of the road. You, being from that country that always drives on the wrong side of the road, did you even notice? This movie was very popular and the studio wanted to capture that again, so they teamed Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart in Bell, Book and Candle (1958). Not a Hitchcock film, but a fun little comedy that you might enjoy.

Lee Pitman

Great reaction. I had only seen the first half of this before. Sir Alfred Hitchcock was embittered at the critical and commercial failure of this movie in 1958. He blamed this on James Stewart for "looking too old" to attract audiences anymore. Hitchcock never worked with Stewart, previously one of his favorite collaborators, again. Vertigo was unavailable for three decades because its rights (together with four other movies of the same period) were bought back by Sir Alfred Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter Patricia Hitchcock. They've been long-known as the "Five Lost Hitchcock’s" among movie buffs and were re-released in theatres around 1984 after an approximately thirty-year absence. The others are The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Rear Window (1954), Rope (1948), and The Trouble with Harry (1955).