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The 13 Alfred Hitchcock movies you need to watch in your lifetime
Business Insider ^ | August 9, 2017 | Jason Guerrasio

Posted on 08/14/2017 7:08:42 PM PDT by EveningStar

Alfred Hitchcock is more than just the master of suspense.

Throughout his career, the legendary director transformed cinema as we know it today through his unique visual eye, masterful storytelling, and incredible showmanship.

In celebration of his birthday on Sunday, we look back on his most memorable works -- ranging from the crowd-pleasing "Psycho" to a movie regarded as one of the best ever made, "Vertigo."

Here are the 13 Alfred Hitchcock movies you need to watch in your lifetime:

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To: EveningStar

Seen em all...even the ones not on the list.

Love Hitchcock movies


41 posted on 08/14/2017 8:12:37 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Unless you live in or near Bodega Bay then those bird attacks are very real


42 posted on 08/14/2017 8:14:08 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Mike Darancette

Witness for the Prosecution
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Great movie, but not Hitchcock.


43 posted on 08/14/2017 8:15:45 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: Lurker

Don’t forget The Lady Vanishes and The Lodger. Also, The Wrong Man and I Confess.


44 posted on 08/14/2017 8:15:53 PM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: EveningStar

Where’s Rebecca?


45 posted on 08/14/2017 8:16:35 PM PDT by MHT (,`)
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To: entropy12

My all time favorite movie is “The Best years of Our Lives.”
Tears well up every time I see it.


46 posted on 08/14/2017 8:16:36 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Strangers on a Train is the creepiest.


47 posted on 08/14/2017 8:16:39 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: EveningStar

What? No lifeboat?


48 posted on 08/14/2017 8:17:21 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Mears

There is a “Bates Motel” in Vale Oregon. I think of that shower sceen every time I drive by.


49 posted on 08/14/2017 8:20:25 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem wiath socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Saw North by Northwest many years ago. Entertaining and suspenseful, but thought the crop duster crashing into the stopped fuel truck was, as Jed Clampett would say: “pathetic, jeeesst pathetic”. It’s like the writer and/or the director didn’t have good idea about how to end that scene.


50 posted on 08/14/2017 8:21:18 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: MHT

home on sunny brook farm


51 posted on 08/14/2017 8:22:01 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: entropy12

Yup. Roger Thornhill in “North By Northwest” was James Bond. He just didn’t know it! The Bond filmmakers have said “North By Northwest” influenced them a great deal. I think it virtually invented the modern action-adventure genre. What a truly fantastic movie, that still holds up extremely well today.


52 posted on 08/14/2017 8:22:08 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: TruthWillWin

“There is a “Bates Motel” in Vale Oregon. “

I’ll be darned———bet it’s pretty popular.

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53 posted on 08/14/2017 8:24:05 PM PDT by Mears
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To: JennysCool

No doubt about it...a foreign accented villain, a sexy woman who works with the villain whom he seduces, totally inadvisable risky adventure by the hero, car chases, hero likes to drink etc etc..all future 007 traits.

All Bond movies with Sean Connery are my favorites, especially Gold Finger & Never say Never Again.


54 posted on 08/14/2017 8:44:03 PM PDT by entropy12 (Why Republicans woo & pursue people who will never vote for them (liberals & media) ?)
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To: entropy12

Big Connery Bond fan here, too, though I think “Spectre” ranks up there with the best. A new classic in the traditional mode.


55 posted on 08/14/2017 8:54:38 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: EveningStar

And just for fun, watch “High Anxiety.”


56 posted on 08/14/2017 9:05:31 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: EveningStar

What!?! No Lifeboat!


57 posted on 08/14/2017 9:07:14 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Disambiguator
And just for fun, watch “High Anxiety.”




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58 posted on 08/14/2017 9:08:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar

They forgot “Frenzy,” which is a good late Hitchcock pic.


59 posted on 08/14/2017 9:18:18 PM PDT by karnage
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To: EveningStar

Saboteur - a film with a warning message for today and all days


60 posted on 08/14/2017 9:52:01 PM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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