Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor, he just tears him up.
‘The Master of Suspense’, legendary British director Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980).
Alex Raphael
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Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor, he just tears him up.
‘The Master of Suspense’, legendary British director Sir Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980).
Alex Raphael 
A film and TV genius, I truly love all of his work.
Very true. Could you pick a top 5? Rob and Zoe are running a great Hitchcock blogathon if you get the chance to have a look.
Top 5…hmm, that would be difficult. Today, it would be (in no particular order)
1. Strangers on a Train
2. North by Northwest
3. Rear Window
4. Rebecca (Hitchcock but not LOL)
5. Shadow of a Doubt
Impressed you could do one so quickly. Nice list. Psycho would be in mine, as would The 39 Steps, but I think I’d definitely have to pinch three from your list.
Yeah, I keep going back to Psycho, mainly because Anthony Perkins is just amazing in his portrayal…so I guess we can drop Rebecca on the technicality 🙂
When I saw it for the first time I sat back amazed for some moments, and then watched it back again from the start.
Right! And some days I would swap out Rear Window, as brilliant as that was in how it was filmed from that POV, for The Birds. Just because. 🙂
The Birds is great. I did like Rope a lot too, but didn’t think James Stewart was right for the main role.
When I was 12 (in 1962) I climbed the hill (almost a mountain and very steep) next to our farm house. I put a note inside a plastic bag and hid it in the hollow of a tree. It read “I hereby declare this hill to be named Hitchcock Hill”. Thirty years later, I was teaching several hundred miles away. A student came and showed me a note he’d found inside a tree at the top of a mountain! It had my name at the bottom!
That is awesome 🙂
That’s a great line. A bit surprising it isn’t more famous.
He had some phenomenal quotes. It was tricky to choose just one.
😆 I love him so much 🙂
I wish he was still making films!