Posted on 04/25/2015 3:14:44 PM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
His films are loaded with Catholic themes.
I love Hitchcock. I really got a kick out of looking for his cameo appearance in his films. As a kid, his namesake television show and the Twilight Zone were competing for suspense fans. I used to like Hitchcock better. Twilight Zone scared me. Now I watch old episodes of both.
**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.
One sign of Hitchcock’s Catholicism, IMHO, is that he clearly knew the difference between good and evil. Some of his films can be very dark, and there are evil characters in some of them. But unlike many, if not most, Hollywood directors, Hitchcock never confuses good with evil. That’s one major reason why I admire his films, and over the years have watched most of them.
Thanks for posting this,it’s a well written piece. I just wish our gentle reviewer had enjoyed the book more!
It was mandated in the old days that crime could not be gotten away with or rewarded on TV or the movies.
I read that he had Mass held in his home every day.
That was a great interview! It is in about 5 parts that start one after the other no additional clicking is needed.
Go, Hitch! Lol at the opening sequence-didn’t see it coming!
The story is told that after the release of 'Psycho' a woman wrote Hitchcock and told him that her daughter had been so traumatized by the 'shower scene' that she refused to take a shower.
Hitchcock's response - "send her to the dry cleaners."
LOL!
A great director - maybe the best of all time.
Thanks for posting. I’ve always enjoyed his movies and I especially liked his TV show. The movie made about him a couple years ago with Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren was pretty entertaining. It was a behind-the-scenes look at what it took for him to make Psycho.
He made some of the all time great movies.
He also could be really funny in a dry type of way.
Tippi Hedren accused him of being lecherous but I think she probably made it up. She was pretty.
Years ago I read a book titled STORIES THEY WOULD NOT LET ME PUT ON TV by Hitchcock.
Several years later, there was a competing mystery theater program on another channel and I noticed one of the stories was from that book.
When he was asked how he became such a great suspense director, Hitchcock credited his parents with “introducing him to fear”.
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