Hibi Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 No, that's Marion's boss who walks in front of her car....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Here's the definite answer to this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Yes. LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Is it safe to assume that everyone recognizes Ted Knight (aka Ted Baxter, MTM show ) as the cop standing guard in the last scene in the film? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Yeah, but word is he was Hitch's second choice for the part...and after George Putnum turned down the role. (...maybe ya gotta be an Angeleno to get this one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 LOL. I do. It kinda breaks up that scene for me because I always laugh. But how could Hitch know 10 years later, Ted would be famous for Ted Baxter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 It's not safe to assume that. I thought it was Walter Cronkite. Ted Baxter would have been thrilled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Ted Knight had earlier appeared in an episode of "Highway Patrol". He played a news reporter trying to expose some mob activities and got beaten up rather badly. But Dan Mathews saved him in the end (I don't know why?) Ted should have found another line of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 This reminds me of the first time I ever watched "Lonely Are The Brave", which was right at the time Carroll O'Connor was such a big hit as Archie Bunker. Every time in the movie it switched to a short scene of him driving that truck on his way to that fateful final scene on the highway, all I could think of was why was he there so far away from the borough of Queens and didn't he drive a forklift instead?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 Thanks, Dargo, for posting the clip of Hitchcock's appearance in PSYCHO. I completely missed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo2 Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 You're welcome, Holden. This particular cameo of Hitch's does seem to be one of the easier ones to miss, doesn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 The easiest Hitch cameo to miss may be in SHADOW OF A DOUBT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Where is his cameo in Shadow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 See what I mean? Isn't this the one where he's on the train, and you can see him from the back, playing cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Is it? I'll have to look next time. I think you are right, now that I think of it. Notorious is one I cant spot him either. Is he at the racetrack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Isn't he at the party at the beginning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 I'll have to check next go round. I can never spot him in that one...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Maybe I'm confusing it with another movie, but in Shadow of a Doubt I thought Hitchcock was seen stepping in and out of a room on a train right near the start of the movie, with his back turned to us at first. His face appears only for a second or two before he disappears. Someone needs to compile a list of Hitchcock cameos. Did he appear in every movie right from the beginning, or didn't this practice begin until sometime in the 1930's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 A couple years ago someone posted a lot of the cameos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 I'm unsure when the cameos started. But I think it was early on...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Hitchcock cameos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfred_Hitchcock_cameo_appearances Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Aha. So he was at the party at Rains in Notorious. I've suspected that, but could never find him...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Someone gave me a book about Hitchcock as a gift, and in the back is a list of when his cameos appear. Don't have that book handy now, and can't remember them all. For me, the cameo in THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY is the one that escapes me. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenIsHere Posted September 5, 2013 Author Share Posted September 5, 2013 I'm unsure when the cameos started. But I think it was early on...... Robert Osborne said in his introduction to THE LODGER that Hitchcock's appearances initially were for budgetary reasons so as not to have to pay for additional actors or extras. He said that Hitchcock appeared as at least two characters in THE LODGER (I say at least two because I know it was more than one but I don't remember the exact number). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Some people have said that Psycho was a low-budget film, but years ago I was on a Universal tour and we were taken by a tram up to a back-lot hill where the Bates motel still was located, and the big old victorian house was up on the hill behind the motel. They seemed like expensive props to me. But maybe the rest of the film was low budget, but I never really noticed it being low budget. But another interesting thing about this film. These kinds of films were being made for the teenage horror film market of the 1950s, such as axe murderers, slashers, gouls, monsters. etc. What was odd about Psycho was that it was a similar type of B-type horror film, but much better made and with a great script and excellent actors. Hitch's reputation brought a lot of mature adults into the theater to see this B-type of teenage slasher film, which I think is both funny and clever. He should have done many more B-type of slasher films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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