Posted on 06/25/2017 6:50:34 PM PDT by iowamark
I should look for those. He loves to be scared. I sure remember the music.
My grandparents lived in a town with one flashing yellow light in OK almost into Texaco.
Their favorite TV shows were Gunsmoke and AH Presents.
The show tended to make the brain work a little bit unlike the forced feed poisonous propaganda of todays entertainment. Did you see that link I posted above? They have a bunch of them on that site if you’re looking for free.
Pretty sure that the ruling liberals got Gunsmoke pulled off the air, like they did with Amos and Andy.
Rear Window is by far his best movie IMHO.
My favorite Hitchcock movie(forgot the name) is about the London rapist who loses a pendant to the clutch of a dying girl.
The editing of films was totally different than the shot on video products of today (it’s all digitally shot today and then “instagram filtered” in a computer to look like film (both coloring and texture)).
Negatives were cut together by an editor, today they use avid to edit it in a computer. The techniques employed resemble music videos. Shaky hand held cameras. Constant motion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunsmoke
In September 1975, despite still ranking among the top 30 programs in the ratings, Gunsmoke was canceled after a 20-year run; it was replaced by Mary Tyler Moore spin-offs Rhoda and Phyllis (though Rhoda actually debuted while Gunsmoke was still airing first-run).
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There was a purge of the old guard programs at CBS. Hicks and hayseeds were off the air. No more Beverly Hillbillies or the rest. A new realism of urban dwelling liberals became the norm. They almost killed Gunsmoke in 1967.
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That’s it. Thanks.
“North by Northwest” my favorite Hitchcock, too - “Trouble With Harry” the most underrated (excellent dark comedy).
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Oddly, I don’t see my favorite Hitchcock film on the list to be aired: To Catch a Thief. The succession of “all-time great” films he made in the 50s and 60s is extraordinary.
His WWII era movies are personal favorites of mine, including “The Lady Vanishes”, “Foreign Correspondent”, “Sabotage”, and (slightly earlier) “The 39 Steps”.
Tough to go wrong with any of his movies.
Love the interesting facts behind his work over the years. His Cameos are famous, but never realized until it was pointed out that “The Birds” is unique because it is completely absent of music. The odd included foreground objects and curious angles of view in “Dial M for Murder” were done to increase the perception of depth because it was originally filmed for 3D (would love to find a copy of it in anaglyph format).
‘Rope’, ‘Lifeboat’ and ‘Dial “M” for Murder’ were classics as well.
Hitchcock was great.
Marshall Dillon made Darrell Hannah cry.
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