Posted on 02/21/2019 12:17:51 PM PST by simpson96
"The Birds" Movie Clip - Trapped in a Phone Booth (1963)
CREDITS: Universal (1963), Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Producer, Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Screenwriters: Daphne Du Maurier, Evan Hunter
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I don’t know. I’ve seen her interviews where she has excoriated him.
Some unhealthy stuff goes on in Hollywood, for sure.
It would be nice if some freepers actually watched intelligent documentaries on people like Hitchcock or John Ford or John Wayne and read books about these subjects rather than picking up film education from The National Enquirer while at the checkout line.
She has talked a lot about his abuse.
Really? I just watched one where she spoke very kindly about him. Perhaps the problem - if what you say is true - is with Miss Hedren (who I adore) rather than Hitch.
You can find many interviews where she herself said he sexually assaulted her. That’s coming straight from her.
Hey, I’m not totally bereft of interesting stuff!
You mention John Ford. Did you know he was present at Japan’s attack of Midway Island? Rather than take shelter below ground with the command staff as directed to, he climbed up into some kind of hut or other and filmed the attack.
I love John Ford’s work. A genius.
Of course he was a bully on the film set and Maureen O’Hara once caught him drawing men’s penises in his office...
See, I can also drag people through the dirt simply by quoting bitter people or (who knows) truthful people.
In what way did he sexually assault her? Inquiring minds want to know.
The post of mine that, I assume, has your so irritated said, “IF TRUE, he was a bastard.” I plead not guilty to dragging people through the dirt.
I love how you now try to worm your way out of your stupid accusations and manage to slime me at the same time.
At least I have read Maureen O’Hara’s memoirs. I doubt you’ve ever bothered to read any book on Hitchcock, Ford or anybody else in the film industry. But, please, go ahead and tell us about your deep knowledge of Ford & Hitchcock.
I asserted no particular knowledge. If you are slimed, you did it to yourself by attacking an innocuous post that was prefaced with, “If true.” Sorry you’re having such a bad day.
Seriously. Go read her interview with USA Today in 2016. You act like this is an issue with me? Go read.
Then be careful in future of asserting things or suggesting things of which you have no knowledge.
The original ending was that they made it back to San Francisco, but it too had been taken over by the birds. They (not sure if it was Hitch or the studio) thought the ending would gross people out and the movie would flop, or so said one of the narrators on AMC or TCM or wherever it was that I saw it.
I wonder if the short story (it seems it would have to be more of a novella) ends the same way?
It doesn’t appear so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(story)
That Aristophanes was quite a card though.
He knew suspense and horror. He did not need non-stop action and violence.
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