There's Hitch

Analyisis and comedic take on the 1928 thriller Blackmail directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  It was two...two...two films in one.  If was first filmed as a silent film but Hitchcock's studio recently obtained sound equipment so key scenes were completely refilmed to make it a sound picture.  Leading lady Anny Andra had a thick East European accent so a British actress stood out of camera  site saying...

Analysis and comedic take on the 1950 murder mystery directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  The movie follows the attempts of Eve (Jane Wyman) to clear the name of accused murderer Jonathan (Richard Todd) by going undercover as the maid of Charlotte (Marlene Dietrich) the victem's wife.  Eve is aided by her witty oddball father The Commodore (Alistair Sim).  The film broaches the subject of truth and memo...

Analysis and comic take on the 1946 Spy Thriller Notorious directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Two of Hitchcock's favorite stars play the leads with CIA agent Cary Grant recruiting and subsquently falling in love with Ingrid Bergman the daughter of an American traitor who attempts to redeam her name  going undercover  by seducing and marrying Claude Raines a Nazi scientist operating in Brazil.  Since t...

Analysis and comic take on the 1938 film The Lady Vanishes directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  The Lady Vanishes main plot concerns an elderly englishwoman who disappears mid train ride and the main characters efforts to find her.  It also launched Basil Radford and Nauton Wayne as the comedic duo of the staid British citizens and cricket finatics Childers and Caldicot.  Hitch's cameo is one of his mor...

Analysis and comic take on the 1935 film The 39 Steps directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  The 39 Steps is not only the title of the movie but serves as the McGuffin.  The entire movie is spent trying to discover what the 39 Steps are which is finally revealed in a dramatic climax at the London Palladium during which the foriegn operatives foiled.  Hitch's cameo is a little on the quick side so as alway...

Analysis and comedic take on the 1954 film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Before there was cable television with reality TV,  and well before Rick Sanchez hooked up interdemensional cable for the Smith family on Adult Swim, there were Peeping Toms (I mean there was Rear Window).  Jimmy Stewart plays a professional photographer laid up with a broken leg who spends his days watching the...

Analyisis and comedic take on the 1934 version (original) The Man Who Knew Too Much, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  This movie opens on the ski slopes of San Moritz then goes to London for the finale.  First to thwart an assasination attempt of of foriegn dignatary during a concert at Albert Hall and later save the life of a young girl, the daughter of the two protaganist.  This film features dry...

Analysis and comedic take on Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat.  The movies opens with the sinking of a merchant ship torpedoed by a Uboat (German submarine).  Tullulah Bankhead is  shown as a survivor and the lone passenger on a floating lifeboat fashionably attired.  One by one she picks up eight survivers including 4 crew members, 3 other passengers, and a German sailor from the Uboat sunk...

Analysis and comedic take on Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope starring Jimmy Stewart as a professor attending a party thrown by two former students portrayed by John Dall and Farley Granger who are haboring a sinister secret.  "There's Hitch" refers to the identification of Hitchcock's cameo in each examined film.  Special emphasis in this episode is on Hichcock's filming "Rope" to appear as a co...

Analysis and comic take on the 1927 film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  This is one of Hitchcock's silent films and the first instance in which Hitchcock does a cameo (a small role) in his own film.  The plot follows a young upper class gentleman renting a room in a middleclass area of London who is suspected of being a serial strangler.