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Hitchcock and the Sincerest Form Of Flattery

Stanley Donen admitted that CHARADE was an attempt to make a certain kind of Hitchcock film -- the slightly tongue in cheek, star-driven romantic thrillers like TO CATCH A THIEF or NORTH BY NORTHWEST....

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They do have some of the Hitchcockian elements, but weren't necessarily striving to be Hitch films. As anyone knows, Hitch didn't invent the genre or every twist and turn that could be made, he just...

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This one from 1936 with a screenplay by Frank Laudner, who co-wrote The Lady Vanishes, has Hitchcock all over it, but he had nithing to do woth it.CapnDunsel wrote: They do have some of the...

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I think Francois Truffaut made the point that North by North West could be seen as an influence on the early Bond Films. Russ

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In the 30's, 40's and 50's, other filmmakers were making Hitchcockian films without trying to imitate Hitchcock.   In other places we've even discussed films that probably influenced Hitchcock's own...

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professor liebstrum wrote:I think Francois Truffaut made the point that North by North West could be seen as an influence on the early Bond Films. RussI've always accepted this but when you really...

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I've always accepted this but when you really think about it... outside of some gallows humor and the helicopter sequence in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE I'm hardpressed to come up with obvious examples of...

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Well, there was the Lector/MacGuffin (sp?) in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE too. There was the fact that Hitchcock himself made an awful lot of actual spy films prior to Bond. And then there was the...

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Ever on the lookout for thrillers in the Hitchcock style, I recently came across MR. DYNAMITE, a B-programmer produced by Universal in 1941.  The plot is right out of THE 39 STEPS but slightly...

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Robert Stevenson's NON STOP NEW YORK and Carol Reed's NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH were early examples, both using actors (and in the latter, even characters) from previous Hitchcock films.

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I saw an interview with Donan. He seemed bothered by the comparison. I love Hitch but there are just so many others. Fritz Lang, the Britsh Gaingsbrough and Gaumont thrillers, RKO and WB noir, guys...

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Another Hitchcockian thriller is Universal's HOUSE OF CARDS (1968) starring George Peppard and Inger Stevens.  As in NORTH BY NORTHWEST, the leading man and lady are thrown together under unlikely...

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Hitchcock even flattered himself with The Man Who Knew Too Much

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When Billy Wilder set out to make DOUBLE INDEMNITY, he intended to make a film that was not in the Hitchcock mode but every bit as suspenseful. He succeeded, and Hitchcock praised it.

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Castle's Homicidal? LOL Bava's The Girl who Knew Too Much feels pretty Hitchcock.

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If we're also talking suspense/psycho/thrillers, then LES DIABOLIQUES and THE WAGES OF FEAR*, REPULSION, ROSEMARY'S BABY, SLEUTH, THE LAST OF SHEILA, STILL OF THE NIGHT, DEAD CALM, DEAD AGAIN,...

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MY FAVORITE BLONDE is clearly a re-do of THE 39 STEPS. It even has Madeleine Carroll in it and the male star pretending to be someone he's not in front of an audience. Alfred Hitchcock didn't invent...

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NoeticHatter wrote:Castle's Homicidal? LOL Bava's The Girl who Knew Too Much feels pretty Hitchcock.And I SAW WHAT YOU DID has a murder-in-a-shower scene that manages to be pretty original. Or at...

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will wrote:Crossplot (1969) Two Doris Day movies:The Glass Bottom BoatCaprice One of the many good lines in the first one is when Rod Taylor is defending Doris Day to the characters who suspect her...

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As I recall, a handful of UNCLE episodes fit that description, including the pilot episode "The Vulcan Affair" with Patricia Crowley.  But it's a pretty limiting premise to base an entire series on....

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