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.
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!
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.
When he was asked how he became such a great suspense director, Hitchcock credited his parents with “introducing him to fear”.
He died 35 years ago today.