[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[Salvation]

**As is well known, Hitchcock was born and raised a Catholic. His Catholicism was heavily influenced by his Irish forebears and distilled further by the London Jesuits who taught him. His wife converted to the faith just prior to their marriage in 1926; their only child, Patricia, was brought up Catholic; the family was often to be seen on Sundays at the Good Shepherd Church in Beverley Hills.**

Not many know this about Hitchcock so I am repeating it.

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Obviously the reviewer has not read Donald Spoto’s expose on Hitchcock. I read it when it first came out and almost threw up. Hitchcock was a sadist and a perv; and the Jesuits seemed to have inculcated, if not inspired, his weirdness. Tippi Hedren's complaints aside, “FRENZY” was about Hitch’s own predilections.