Favorite Hitchcock Film

[CallaghanFilms]

rear window or north by northwest. i gave the edge to rear window.

Woo-Hoo!!
We agree! At long last...we agree!
Saints be praised!
I knew this day would come!​

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[HorseFilms]

How dare you talk about him in the past tense... He went home... with Elvis.

I saw that issue of Weekly World News, too.

 

[Chris Messineo]

Grace Kelly at her yummiest . . .

Grace Kelly, IMHO, was the most stunning actress ever.

Chris

 

[Cryogenic Filmworks]

Granted I've not seen them all but I do like Rope.

 

[ExtremeSleuth]

Rear Window. Close second is Vertigo. Stewart was phenomenal in both.

 

[tankgirl]

Don't hate me... I picked The Birds. I was really little when I first saw this movie and it scared the living daylights out of me. And to this day birds still scare me more then anything.

Of course if you watch it now it's kind of cheesy. That movie and Night of the Living Dead kept me up at night when I was little.

 

[Matthew B. Moore]

I really like The 39 Steps. It's damn fine work for the time. Hitch played the odd card and the public played along.

Strangers on a Train is my all time favorite. The opener is fantastic. What an odd story with odd characters.

 

[Mark Harris]

Grace Kelly, IMHO, was the most stunning actress ever.

Chris

Which makes Jimmy Stewart's behavior in Rear Window so baffling. I mean, if she was trying to show how much she loved me...Damn, she was amazing.

 

[David Jimerson]

Trivia: the guy playing the piano in "Rear Window" is the guy who created (and voiced) the Chipmunks.

 

[Filmjunkie677]

All this talk has got me pulling out my Hitch DVD's!!!

 

[KMR]

Don't hate me... I picked The Birds. I was really little when I first saw this movie and it scared the living daylights out of me. And to this day birds still scare me more then anything.

Of course if you watch it now it's kind of cheesy. That movie and Night of the Living Dead kept me up at night when I was little.

I picked THE BIRDS, too, because it has been my favorite Hitchcock movie (and overall favorite) for many years. The last 20 minutes epitomize Hitchcock's ideal of "pure cinema", at least as I understand him.

Oh my, THE BIRDS is "kind of cheesy"??? I respectfully, if vehemently, disagree. Hitchcock stretched himself on this film, and everything was state of the art. THE BIRDS is a whole textbook on the art of filmmaking.

 

[KMR]

The polling system will only allow 10 choices. It was really hard to try and pick 9 (and leave 1 for other).

Chris

How about doing a decade-by-decade poll?

 

[DarkMatter]

Frenzy

 

[tankgirl]

It's still cheesy! hehe And I am still terrified of it.

 

[idvfilms]

Vertigo, followed by Rear Window...Time to change up the Netflix queue.

 

[bklyndv]

The Lady Vanishes missed the cut, too -- I have a special place in my heart for it...

The Man Who Knew Too Much is another good one that's missing.

Probably either NBNW or Rear Window from among these.