mrroberts
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Believe it or not, Janet Leigh did play a psychotic killer in a tv episode/ movie. The 2 part episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. series titled "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" (edited into a movie "The Spy with the Green Hat" ). Janet is the assistant to villain Jack Palance and she is very, very nasty and she likes to play with knives. Its a shame Tony Perkins wasn't in this, he could have been one of her victims.
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Did you ever notice how Hitch is always dressing Grace up really pretty and then trying to brutally kill her?
What a great sense of humor ! I always wondered, IF Grace had kept her acting career going and Hitch was preparing to do *Psycho* , which female lead (sister) part would he have given her? -
Sorry for getting off track, this is supposed to be about *Rear Window* , right. I love this movie a lot. The moment when Jimmy picks up the phone and starts blabbing , without knowing who's on the other end. And just silence, and then Stewart knows who's on the other end. Its the killer, and I just let him know who I am and what I know, and now the killer is coming to pay me a visit.!
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His performance as "Arnie" supposedly got Jerry Mathers the "Beaver" tv gig. And Hitchcock personally saw Shirley MacLaine on the stage and cast her in this , her first film. I think "Harry" does tend to drag on a little too long, its like telling a joke over and over and it loses some of its effect. Everyone involved has some connection to the dead guy, but everyone is totally focused on how this event affects only themselves. Is this a little personal observation by Hitchcock about how we all are a little self centered? "Harry's dead and he never paid me back that 20 bucks I lent him" kind of thing.
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I will say that the film that TCM aired on Saturday was kind of rough in spots, again if that's all that's available to show what else can be done?. If this film needs restoration and there are additional scenes that can be reinserted I'm all for it. I'll write the check myself
, that's how highly I value this film.Edited by: mrroberts on Sep 15, 2013 10:57 AM
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How can anyone NOT like Arnie?
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I agree, the bad guys were just using "the Church" as a cover for their operation. Hitch may have had some subtle purpose in using that in the storyline. I think he did a lot of little things in his work for his own personal amusement.
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To me *The Man Who Knew Too Much* is nothing more than Hitchcock's often repeated theme of mistaken identity or guilt by association. The bad guys see Stewart with the gov. agent and they just assume he (Stewart) has some relationship with him. And they don't know if in his dying moment the agent passed any information on to Stewart. He did say a few words, but Stewart has no idea what its all about. It could have ended right there but when the bad guys kidnap Stewart's child, he has no choice but to get involved and find out what this is all about. And he's caught between working with the bad guys or the cops. Sounds like North By Northwest, Saboteur, I Confess, (a definite underappreciated Hitch film), Strangers On A Train, and a bunch of other films. Ordinary man in extraordinary situation.
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Fred, let me know if you ever find a "Linda" out there.
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I was just looking up the classic Johnny Carson Tonight Show sketch with Jay Silverheels (a Canadian native did you know?) "Tonto in Toronto speak Esperanto" . I had a devil of a time learning how to properly pronounce "Mississauga" until someone said "how do you say Mississippi?"
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Tom, I agree with you 1000% about *The Sea Wolf* . I wish it would get more airings and in a prime time 8 or 10 pm time slot. How about the great special effect scene at the beginning (the boat collision)? Rivals anything you can see today in a film. And for my money NO actor was ever better in films than Edward G Robinson and this is him at his best (the other actors in this film ain't bad either
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I too like to examine some scenes on a frame by frame basis, almost always to see how some stunt or special effect might have been done. Keep in mind though that in 1958 no filmmaker could have imagined that one day you and I would have the ability to do this "frame by frame" analysis. So as long as the scene played ok for the people in the movie theatre who cared about these little variations?
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An excellent film for sure. Power was a very fine actor and it shows here. Dead at only 44, what a terrible loss for the movie industry and the public.
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Dargo2, I just saw the "Rear Window" trailer. I believe that around 1965 "Psycho" and "Rear Window" were rereleased in theatres as a double billing. Sometime soon after that is when Hitchcock must have pulled "Rear Window" and the other films he had ownership of from distribution. Apparently Hitch and James Stewart must have had some kind of deal on the four films Stewart was in so Stewart was in on Hitchcock's "investment" plan. And "The Trouble With Harry" went along as well. There must be some confusion about the box office numbers listed in earlier posts here, U.S. numbers vs international numbers. It doesn't seem likely that "Harry" beat out some of the other Hitchcock films of that era.
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I would have thought that Holden would have blown up a bridge as he did in a number of his other films. Or maybe one of Susan Strasberg's errant cigarette butts would have burned down half of the town. Hal would have saved Madge's mom from the fire and she would have changed her mind about him.
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I just looked at the wiki entry. The film certainly was initially released in the U.S. (I believe I even heard Shirley MacLaine in an interview talk about it) but did not do very well. Hitchcock soon after acquired the rights to the movie, as he did with several other of his films). He was the one who then withheld the films from distribution. Rope, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) , and The Trouble With Harry were the five films. Only after Hitch passed in 1980 and his estate was settled were the five films rereleased. I saw all five in an old theatre in 1983. Other than the initial release time in 1955 it doesn't appear that it was available for viewing very much if at all until 1983. Hitchcock considered the films an investment for his estate, the value increased as the films sat idle.
Edited by: mrroberts on Sep 12, 2013 11:16 PM
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I really like Kim Novak an awful lot, but Lee Remick goes off the scale for me. Lee would have been a great Mrs Robinson. If they had made that movie 10 years later Lee could have been Mrs Robinson and I could have been her "pupil".
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"Harry" also gave the public its introduction to Shirley MacLaine, no small matter there.
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Anytime Cagney wept, if anyone watching would have laughed or made some remark, POW, right in the kisser.
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And this was right around the time Laughton's *Night of the Hunter* came out too. Boy, those 1955 audiences were dumb ! --- P S they were smart enough to go see Mister Roberts though
Edited by: mrroberts on Sep 12, 2013 2:15 PM
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When the lights went out Charles Bronson was in the tunnel and then he freaked out and then... Oh, sorry, wrong movie.
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John2Bad's observations are so obvious, I feel really stupid for never seeing them before. I can't wait to hear his review of *Rebecca* and how it relates to Roosevelt's New Deal policies .
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I'll have to ask my old girlfriend , Jaclyn Smith, what she may know about this. "Charlie", I mean Forsythe did work on the stage, did he ever sing in other films or plays? --- I first saw "Harry" back in the early 80's, one of the 5 missing Hitchcock's, saw them all on the big screen too. I liked "Harry" right away, but I can understand why it wasn't well received in America when first released in 1955. Firstly, it wasn't a typical Hitchcock film, audiences may have been confused or disappointed. Secondly, its a very British film, dry humor/wit, and most American audiences just didn't quite get it. In later years, like the 80's up to today, more people like it. Still, its always going to be one of Hitch's "lesser" films.
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I rule off settings penalties here. Repeat 2nd down.
What a great sense of humor ! I always wondered, IF Grace had kept her acting career going and Hitch was preparing to do *Psycho* , which female lead (sister) part would he have given her?
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Finance, you remind me of that juror played by Jack Warden in *Twelve Angry Men* . Another juror demands "you changed your vote, tell me why?"