What's your favorite Hitchcock classic?!


Question: North By Northwest is a great action film. It contains two great sequences, one in which a plane tries to attack Cary Grant, and the other a climactic chase across Mount Rushmore.

Rebecca is a great one and more of a who-dunnit than most of Hitchcock's work. And you can't beat Laurence Olivier in a Hitchcock film.

Rear Window is amazing in that it is confined to a small apartment and yet it uses that confinement to great effect. If anyone can give Laurence Olivier a run for his money as best actor, it's Jimmy Stewart.

Notorious, with its elements of romance and mystery as well as the usual suspense, is excellent as well. Claude Rains as a bad guy (or is he?) is excellent, and Cary Grant is once more one of the best Hitchcock heroes. (Yes, that makes three great Hitchcock heroes. And they say that he was a great lady's director. Well, Ingrid Bergman is wonderful in this movie, too.)

For my money, his best film was probably The 39 Steps. It was a quickie, made in Britain, but it had so many of the elements that would later be identified as classic Hitchcock. Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll were magnificent as the couple. The scenes of them going through the countryside handcuffed were just wonderful. And the ending is just wonderful. It was a lower-budget film with a shorter running time, so Hitchcock didn't get to lavish as much attention on it as he might have wished, but it was great for all of that. (BTW, it has been in the public domain for a while, so there are some DVDs out there made from bad prints. Try to get your DVD from a reputable distributor, if you can, or rent one, which you can return if it isn't that good.)


Answers: North By Northwest is a great action film. It contains two great sequences, one in which a plane tries to attack Cary Grant, and the other a climactic chase across Mount Rushmore.

Rebecca is a great one and more of a who-dunnit than most of Hitchcock's work. And you can't beat Laurence Olivier in a Hitchcock film.

Rear Window is amazing in that it is confined to a small apartment and yet it uses that confinement to great effect. If anyone can give Laurence Olivier a run for his money as best actor, it's Jimmy Stewart.

Notorious, with its elements of romance and mystery as well as the usual suspense, is excellent as well. Claude Rains as a bad guy (or is he?) is excellent, and Cary Grant is once more one of the best Hitchcock heroes. (Yes, that makes three great Hitchcock heroes. And they say that he was a great lady's director. Well, Ingrid Bergman is wonderful in this movie, too.)

For my money, his best film was probably The 39 Steps. It was a quickie, made in Britain, but it had so many of the elements that would later be identified as classic Hitchcock. Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll were magnificent as the couple. The scenes of them going through the countryside handcuffed were just wonderful. And the ending is just wonderful. It was a lower-budget film with a shorter running time, so Hitchcock didn't get to lavish as much attention on it as he might have wished, but it was great for all of that. (BTW, it has been in the public domain for a while, so there are some DVDs out there made from bad prints. Try to get your DVD from a reputable distributor, if you can, or rent one, which you can return if it isn't that good.)

Psycho
Vertigo
North By Northwest

The Birds

psycho was good

Probably North By Northwest

Psycho
The Birds
Rear Window
Vertigo
Frenzy

The Birds
Rear Window

I like Rebecca, Vertigo and North by Northwest

Pick one? pfft.
Rope
Psycho
Vertigo
Rear Window
Dial M for Murder

That's a tough one...
1. Vertigo (1958) - every time I make a top 10 list this one always seems to be there, so it gets the #1 spot.
2. The Birds (1963)
3. Psycho (1960)
4. Rebecca (1940)
5. North by Northwest (1959)

Psycho

I will say Dial M for Murder....but I love them all?

My top 3 would be:
Psycho
North by Northwest
Vertigo

I also liked:
Shadow of a Doubt
Rear Window
The Birds
Dial M for Murder
Strangers on a Train
Rebecca
Rope
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Notorious
The Truth About Harry
To Catch a Thief

I love all of his movies!! I enjoyed the suspense, he was one of the best.

birds



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