I watch Hitchcock every night on MeTV and naturally, I've reached the point where there are very few episodes I've never seen. But some seem to come on ALL the time--really it's probably only once or twice a year, but because I hate to see them so much it feels like much more.

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I have a visceral reaction to that fucking 'Don't Interrupt' episode. I realize that I hate it so much because it's so well done (creepy, realistic, all the things). I love seeing young Cloris Leachman, and it's interesting to see Black characters who have lines and are integral to the story, even in the subservient roles. But generally speaking that 'they never get to say the important information' trope is the WORST.

have you seen them? should i bother watching them?

Hello all!

My mother used to watch Alfred Hitchcock presents, the 80's series, and I'm looking for a possible episode that I remember bits and pieces of, but I have not been able to find. It's kinda bothering me a bit because I have had success being able to find some old episodes I saw with her based on the memories I have and then matching them up with the synopses I've been reading about online. It's been great! Kinda bolsters up my confidence for my childhood memories, in a way. They were real and I could pretty much trust the vast VAST majority of them. I rule! Woooo.

But alas, this one I need help with. The markers still standing in my memory are as follows:

-A scientist, perhaps a doctor, invents something that can suck the knowledge/memories of someone he plugs in to his machine.
-It's pretty gruesome, this machine. It's not some helmet with electric diodes or scanner. Instead, what it does is it punctures the skull of the victim, and then quite literally sucks brain matter/brain juice, which then can be seen flowing through clear tubing, and then feeding that material into the recipient.
-The victim is then left pretty much incapacitated after this, literally drained of everything they know.

Now, I am open to the idea that this is not an Alfred Hitchcock presents episode. Maybe an anthology series which showcases more science fiction fare like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. But I'm positive I'm not confusing it with Starship Troopers (1997) and the brain bug. In fact, when I saw that, I distinctly remember thinking to myself, hmnnn, this reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock special I saw with mom waay back in the day.

Thank you for the time.

North by Northwest is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies. Cary Grant is so charming and cool in it, and it's so witty and light-hearted, I just love it.

I was watching it the other night and got to thinking about the logistics of the Chicago sequence.

1. Eve sends Van Dam the note, "What do I do with him til morning?"
2. The train arrives in Chicago
3. Eve talks to Leonard on the pay phone
4. Eve tells Thornhill that Kaplan will meet him at a bus stop in rural Illinois

What happened on Van Dam's side? This international terrorist/enemy agent just happens to know a guy in rural Illinois with a crop duster that has machine guns mounted on it, so he says "Have him go to this bus stop" and calls up the guy with the crop duster, tells him "he'll be waiting at the bus stop, go chase him around and shoot him from the plane"...? :)

Might have been more effective to just have Leonard go out there and shoot him :)

I teach a psychology of film course at a university, and one of my students gave me this vintage lobby card for Vertigo. It doesn't have a year on it, but I'd love to know when it's from. I can find similar ones online that say they're roughly from the early 60s, but I can't find this exact one. Anyone have any ideas?

In Rear Window (1954), the protagonist L. B. Jefferies, played by James Stewart, makes some observations about his neighbour, Lars Thorvald. Jefferies sees Thorvald arguing with his wife, going in and out of his apartment repeatedly on a rainy night, wrapping a saw and a knife in a newspaper, and tying a casket with ropes. He also stops seeing Thorvald's wife in the apartment. Therefore, Jefferies starts to suspect that Thorvald has murdered his wife.

When Jefferies tells about his suspicions to his girlfriend Lisa Fremont, played by Grace Kelly, she is unconvinced. One of the arguments, besides his many observations, Jefferies uses to convince Lisa is that Thorvald's wife is "an invalid who needs constant care." Therefore, it is suspicious that no one has been to her the whole day (or at least Jefferies has not seen that happening).

My question is the following: why does Jefferies think that Thorvald's wife is "an invalid who needs constant care"? In fact, earlier in the film, there is a scene where Thorvald brings his wife food on a plate to her bed (possibly implying that she is an invalid). However, in this scene, after Thorvald moves to the living room to have a phone call, his wife gets up from her bed, walks to the living room, and says something to Thorvald. Jefferies sees this, so why does he think she is an invalid?

The screenplay describes Thorvald's wife as "an invalid." If one decides to take this as definitive confirmation that she is an invalid (which one may or may not do), then the question is: how does Jefferies know this, especially given that he has seen Thorvald's wife get up and walk?

What do you think? Am I missing something?

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I recently read Hitchcock does not consider his films politicals and yet I feel films like The Lodger, The 39 steps, Rebecca and The Lady Vanishes to have some form of critique on social order or structure and classess. Take for example in the lodger the stairs as a symbolism to difference. In Rebecca the aspiration to be grown up and have money.

Have you witnessed any of this and if so could you elaborate? I'm still unsure wether its just my interpretation.

2nd place: Psycho, 3rd place: Rear Window, 4th place: North by Northwest

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