When Alfred Hitchcock Cried After Receiving Holy Communion

NC Register ^ | April 28, 2017 | Kathy Schiffer

[metmom]

I never liked him.

My mom loved him but I never could get into horror movies or books.

Evil exists but deliberately opening the door for the enemy is absolute foolishness and I never could figure how some people *like to be scared*.

Life has enough evil to deal with without making stuff up for the thrill factor.

[ReformationFan]

'Oh, by the way, you might be able to get a free copy of the DVD for rent from your local library. You might also look to getting a copy of “Topaz” as well, if you haven’t already seen it. It’s curious, if only because it features one of our favorite actors (who played Dean Vernon Wormer in “Animal House”, John Vernon), as a Fidel Castro-like dictator. John Forsythe (of “Dynasty”) is also in it, along with a criminally underused Roscoe Lee Browne in a nifty role.' It also features the beautiful German actress Karin Dor, the only actress in cinema history to have the distinction of being both a James Bond girl and an Alfred Hitchcock girl:

[Sontagged]

I agree with you but his talent was amazing. VERTIGO is a classic modern tragedy, a true masterpiece.

A golden age Hollywood screenwriter once wrote that once morality was thrown out of American culture in the early sixties, it destroyed the careers of the top directors and writers in the business, who thrived on pushing the envelope. Hitch was one of these directors who just lost his mojo, so to speak, after The BIRDS at that time.

THE BIRDS must be looked at in terms of its pagan mythos; it reminds me of Shirley Jackson’s The LOTTERY in tone.

Hitchcock was most likely an Elite Druid under the cloak of Catholicism (with the same temperament of the crazed husband and wife fake pastors in THE MAN WHO KNEW TO MUCH who kidnapped Doris Day’s son) which would explain pretty much everything.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Miss Dor had one of the grizzlier exits in a Bond film. =8-0> Hitch redeemed that in “Topaz.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

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