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It was on Turner last night, the 50s version with perennial virgin Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart.
Excellent!
Stewart plays a grumpy doctor and Doris, quite believably, plays a successful singer who has retired, against her will, to be a stay-at-home Mom.
Of course the plot was too intricate and far-fetched, almost absurd...exactly like North by Northwest. But with Hitch (at least many of his films) that's not the point. The tensions he creates, the skill of the actors and the cinematography, and the sophistication of the settings...it's almost like a Balzac novel filtered through a very English sensibility.
I believe I've seen the original Hitch version from the 30s, but I don't remember it...
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Actually, far too many would be conspirators eventually get too clever to succede. Especially spies and "smart" criminals.Things like this (and things even more fantastic) have occurred and still do. They almost always fail. The plans that actually work are simple and rely on subtle misdirection. But they work quite well . . . and without fuss. Trouble is; that will not yield a gripping movie, especially with the audience of the 1950s.
Well it is 100000 time better.
I agree. I found the remake very racist.
Sorry I can not find this film! As I have hundreds of films and...no system, even if my Hitch should be together...
Well I will find it and comment, in the next days...
I file all my laserdiscs and DVDs alphabetically by title, regardless of subject, genre, director, etc. Save for the once in a while misfiling I can go right to what I want.
You know the perverse about it? I love searching! And I almost always can find very quickly the object of desire.
Yesterday I looked for at least twenty minutes...for...Nuts.
I have received tody two French films-Un Elephant ca trompe enormement ( Lady in Red )
and Nous irons tous au paradis-
Well I will look for the Hitch later...He-he, but at the latest till the end of the week I will vision it.
Racist?
Well I just saw Ford´s " Drums along the Mohawk " and " My Darling Clementine " with shameful racistic moment.
But Not a hint in Hichcock´s " The Man..."
Explain.
Again, I am talking about the remake. What about the restaurant scene?
I have seen this film more than five times, but I never catch on any Hitch film something racistic, but I will give this scene a particular scrutiniszing to night.
I will comment shortly domani.
Now I will first drink this Pinot...
were condescending towards Arabs??? (I'm assuming you mean the way Jimmy Stewart acted when told how he had to eat?)
In other words, Stewart was portrayed as a man of his day, which was racist. Now, if Hitch had sugar-coated it then HE would have been so...
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