tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67835287339467410502012-01-23T10:12:17.316-08:00News, reviews, comments, criticism, and original videos about Alfred Hitchcock, his screenwriters, and the movies in general. Offspring of Steven DeRosa's book Writing with Hitchcock.stevenderosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12177030989910431727noreply@blogger.comBlogger441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6783528733946741050.post-55529514312767146352012-01-18T13:56:00.000-08:002012-01-18T13:56:32.393-08:00

On this day in 1904, Archibald Leach was born. He left an indelible mark on cinema and our culture as Cary Grant. He was, in the opinion of so many of his fans, the personification of elegance. Screenwriter John Michael Hayes shared many memories of his experiences with Grant during the making of Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, as well as another unproduced project that was intended for the actor.

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A few tips from the Master of Suspense to guide you through your champagne toast into 2012: Tip #1: When popping the cork, aim away from your guests (or the camera).  Tip #2: Try not to spill it all when opening.  Tip #3: Make sure you have enough on hand and chilled to last the entire evening. Don't be like Alex Sebastian. Tip #4: If you're hosting, try not to drink too much before your

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A bit of fun with the Twelve Days of Christmas from a Hitchcockian perspective. Thanks to Eboni Cameron, Edri Hill and Tyena Smith for lending their voices and enthusiasm. Merry Christmas!

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John Michael Hayes would have turned 92 this week, so I thought I'd share some excerpts of our conversations for Writing with Hitchcock. Hayes discusses what the collaboration did for he and Hitchcock, the process of breaking down scenes into a shooting script, Hitchcock's method of working with actors, and much more. Enjoy!

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Writing with Hitchcock: Mondays with Hitchcock — Fall 2011: If you're in the New York area I hope you will join me this fall for Mondays with Hitchcock . I've put together two programs for Westchester...

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If you're in the New York area I hope you will join me this fall for Mondays with Hitchcock. I've put together two programs for Westchester Community College, six sessions each, where we'll be screening and discussing scenes, sequences and films of Alfred Hitchcock. Each night will have its own theme, and some rare items will be screened as well, including a the silent version of Blackmail.

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We were discussing the similarity of the technique used in creating these two "trick shots" which reveal simultaneous action from The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo at the WWH Facebook page, and it got me thinking about other images and juxtaposed shots that Hitchcock repeated in his films—kind of like the second Mrs. De Winter's father who liked the paint the same tree over again. Here are

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To mark the 58th anniversary of John Michael Hayes beginning work on Rear Window I decided to visit the actual Greenwich Village courtyard that was used as the model for the spectacular set of that was built on Paramount's Stage 18. Here you will how the architectual details and the proximity to the neighborhood police precinct inspired the setting and were incorporated into the set sketches,

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Early in his career Hitchcock said that his method of preparing a screenplay with his writers generally stripping the story down to the bare essentials which he would outline on a single page. The next step involved fleshing out that outline into a prose treatment of about 60 to 90 pages, from which the final screenplay with dialogue developed. Hitchcock said, if he was successful in the process,

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Before deciding to make this a two-part entry and include a few words about screenwriter Joseph Stefano, I had intended this piece to be strictly about Hitchcock's assistant director and associate producer Herbert Coleman and was going to title it something along the lines of The Man Who'd Spew Too Much. But thinking twice, I know that Coleman was merely trying to salvage his own reputation,

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Recently on our Facebook page we discussed our favorite kisses in Hitchcock's films, and so here we have the Hitchcock Kiss, with a nod to Joel Gunz whose recent posts on hit Alfred Hitchcock Geek blog have pointed to the influence of sculptor Augusts Rodin on Hitchcock's work. Well worth your time to check out!

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Thirty-one years go yesterday, Alfred Hitchcock passed away. I do not think he would be at all surprised to know that the mark he left on cinema and on pop culture continues and shows no signs of waning. Earlier this week I made a return appearance on The Radio Dan Show where regular guest Joel Gunz (you know him as Alfred Hitchcock Geek), host Dan Delgado, and the "super-hot"

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I can hear the pitch now … why remake when we can make it a sequel? It’s 2012…and Hank Conway…um, I mean McKenna, now in his mid-60s has arrived in Washington DC to attend the Kennedy Center Honors which is being awarded posthumously to his mother Jo the following evening. After checking into his hotel suite, he telephones his daughter Joanna who is traveling by train to meet him. Joanna has a

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It's that time again! We're having another contest. This time your assignment is to put yourself in L.B. Jefferies's shoes, grab your trusty camera, and snap some shots of Hitchcock locations. I'm hoping we get some totally unexpected entries. Happy hunting!Visit our Facebook Page for details!

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In case you missed last Saturday's BBC 4 broadcast of To Catch a Thief(which will be online until 1/15/2011), here's my brief review. Naturally, as I cover the writing and production of To Catch a Thief in great detail in Writing with Hitchcock (in addition to the novel's origins), I listened to the BBC 4 broadcast with a great familiarity to David Dodge’s novel and with a keen ear to pick up

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A Christmas treat courtesy of hulu.com...the Alfred Hitchcock directed episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Back for Christmas, followed by a little background on Hitchcock's favorite crime. Enjoy! That Alfred Hitchcock possessed one of the most complete collections of literature relating to true crime is a well-known fact. Frequently elements from the most notorious criminal cases found

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I had a great time this week hosting a Talkback with the cast of The 39 Steps at the New World Stages in New York. If you haven't seen the show yet, hurry and catch it. This production closes January 16, 2011. Steven DeRosa moderating Talkback with the New York cast of THE 39 STEPS (John Behlmann, Kate MacCluggage, Cameron Folmar, and unseen to the right, Jamie Jackson). The video quality is

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Robert Burks and Alfred Hitchcock on location for The Trouble with Harry, October 1954. If there is a single blessing to come out of Hitchcock’s association with Warner Bros., it’s the gifted cinematographer, Robert Burks. Yesterday The New Yorker online mentioned Burks's early work in the opening of a documentary short Jammin' the Blues, which airs on TCM Monday, December 6 at 9AM.

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Alfred Hitchcock describes how the idea of Albert Hall sequence in the original version of The Man Who Knew Too Much was derived from a Punch magazine cartoon by H.M. Bateman called "The One Note Man."

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Discussion of Alfred Hitchcock's use of music as a plot device, particularly in the 1956 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, where each of the musical selections serves as commentary in addition to serving the plot. For more in depth analysis of the lyrics to the Storm Cloud Cantata, the Portents Hymn, and Whatever Will Be, see the forthcoming new edition of WRITING WITH HITCHCOCK.

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In celebration of Thanksgiving, I thought I'd leave you with a radio play co-scripted by screenwriter John Michael Hayes (Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much). It's an episode of The Adventures of Sam Spade called The Terrified Turkey Caper Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

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Much has been said about Alfred Hitchcock’s selection of Francis Poulenc’s “Perpetual Movement No. 1,” which is played on the piano by Phillip in Rope. Looking at the other music in Rope which plays over the radio, there is a performance by The Three Suns of “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover,” the 1927 song written by Mort Dixon with music by Harry M. Woods. Assuming it was not just by

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In mid-1955 while in production on the re-make of The Man Who Knew Too Much for Paramount Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock began planning a film that would be a dramatic departure from the up-beat Technicolor productions he made since leaving Warner Brothers two years earlier. Although Hitchcock had fulfilled his obligation under the terms of his original four-picture contract with Warner Bros., in

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Continuing our series on the difference between Plot and Story, this week we examine Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious. Hitchcock and screenwriter Ben Hecht crafted one of the director's most gripping spy thrillers around his most famous of MacGuffins—Uranium hidden in wine bottles—and yet it's the emotional story of the characters played by Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant that make this one of

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Writing with Hitchcock is proud to announce our first Hitchcock Halloween Contest! Now is your chance to get into the spooky spirit of the season by dressing up as your favorite character from an Alfred Hitchcock movie—Norman Bates, Melanie Daniels, Richard Hannay, Mrs. Danvers? Or perhaps you'll dare to disguise yourself as the Master of Suspense himself? In any event the

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I thought it would be a good idea to follow up on a recent thread on our Facebook page by discussing some key books on Alfred Hitchcock. These are just a few of my personal recommendations from the growing mountain of Hitchcock literature, which includes Donald Spoto's The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Leonard Leff's Hitchcock and Selznick, and Dan Auiler's Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic

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I'm not one for divulging a movie's secrets in advance of its release, so you won't get any (or at least not much) of that here. That said, I found the hype surrounding the premise and execution of Rodrigo Cortés's forthcoming Buried so intriguing that I gave in to the tempation to read Chris Sparling's screenplay in advance of seeing the movie. It's a tight, tense thriller that manages to

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A little more than eight months ago Eric Rohmer, the French director and film critic passed away. Yesterday marked the passing of Rohmer's co-author of the first book-length study of the films of Alfred Hitchcock—Claude Chabrol. In my previous post on Eric Rohmer, I noted the significance of their book Hitchcock: The First Forty-four Films, a critical survey of Hitchcock’s films

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It was 45 years ago today—September 9, 1965—that Peggy Robertson, Alfred Hitchcock’s longtime personal assistant, did what might have been considered the unthinkable by her employer. After consulting with Lew Wasserman and trusted agent Ned Brown, Robertson included John Michael Hayes’s name on a list of writers suggested as possible script doctors for the ailing screenplay of Torn Curtain. The

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Discussion of Alfred Hitchcock's unwaning influence on popular culture mostly through iconic works such as Psycho, Vertigo, and Rear Window, but more recently a minor work such as Family Plot has found its way into the video for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". The sex and theft motif in Family Plot is examined as well as the origins of the film's final moments. After discovering the connection

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The Danbury Railway Museum which served as the main train depot in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train is the setting for a discussion of the development of the screenplay, Hitchcock's fondess for doubles and contrasting images, and Hitchcock's ability to manipulate the audience into rooting for his villains.

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What is the trouble with The Trouble with Harry? Why does it remain among the least analyzed of Hitchcock’s 1950s films (probably beating out only Dial M for Murder and Stage Fright)? To date, few have seen fit to rank The Trouble with Harry as a key work in the director’s canon. (By far, I most admire Ed Sikov's chapter on the film in his 1996 book Laughing Hysterically. And more recently, Joel

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Discussion of the difference between plot and story in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. Hitchcock and screenwriter Samuel Taylor were both aware of the gaping hole in the plot, and yet it's the emotional story of the characters played by James Stewart and Kim Novak that make this one of Hitchcock's greatest films. There are spoilers in this video, proceed with caution!

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Alfred Hitchcock had few kind words to say about Stage Fright. But one can learn a great deal more from one of Hitchcock's misfires than from many other filmmakers' best works. In the case of Stage Fright, Hitchcock and his writers—which included his wife, Alma Reville, Whitfield Cook, Ranald MacDougall and James Bridie—erred on three distinct points in adapting Selwyn Jepson's Man Running (aka

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Some thoughts on one of Alfred Hitchcock's unproduced projects—The Short Night—comparing Ernest Lehman's first and second drafts to the draft published in David Freeman's The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock To provide a little background, The Short Night is based on a novel by Ronald Kirkbride, which was based on the true account of British spy George Blake who as a double-agent for the Soviet

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Audio excerpts of John Michael Hayes being interviewed for Writing with Hitchcock. Hayes talks about a scene cut from his screenplay for To Catch a Thief, as well as his preferred ending, and a line of dialogue changed by Alfred Hitchcock during production.

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Discussion of the murder of Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling) in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and the reasons behind the omission of the scene with Gromek's older brother.

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I was thinking that this would be a good time to give new readers a bit of backstory—a history of Alfred Hitchcock and his writers, and why I feel this is an aspect of his career deserving of much attention. To Alfred Hitchcock the real creative work of making motion pictures was done in the office with the writer. Having participated in this process, Hitchcock was not only entitled to, but

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Discussion of the inspiration for the novel upon which Alfred Hitchcock based To Catch a Thief, his 1955 film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Recurring motifs and a sequence deleted from John Michael Hayes's original screenplay are also examined.

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Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced today that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho will be released in a Blu-ray edition on October 19, 2010, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the film's release. Of course seeing the film released in HD will be great, but the accompanying news that Universal has created a "new 5.1 Surround Sound Mix" for the release is reminiscent of the Vertigo "

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I was saddened to learn today of John Forsythe’s death on April 1 at the age of 92. Although he was best know for his work on television, most notably as the voice of Charlie in Charlie’s Angels and as oil tycoon Blake Carrington in Dynasty, to me John Forsythe will always be remembered for his portrayal of Sam Marlow in Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry. Although Forsythe was not a

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Earlier this past week I was writing about the recently released Blu-ray edition of North by Northwest and the new documentary by Gary Leva contained therein when I learned of the passing of the French director, writer, actor, novelist, and critic Eric Rohmer. The obits were full of laudatory quotes about Rohmer’s impressive list of credits, his impact on the French New Wave of the 1960s, his

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With many hours spent in transit over the past week, I've amused myself by glancing over the many best of the decade lists that are inevitably compiled as a decade comes to a close. There are many movie lists, some with a few surprises, some fairly obvious and safe, and others with glaring omissions. These are subjective, to be sure, hence here are my own choices, in alphabetical order, of the

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Greetings readers. As many of you already know through correspondence, a new edition of Writing with Hitchcock is coming in 2010, and there will be some other announcements down the line as well. That said, I felt the time was right to revamp the site (and that's still a work in progress), and add a blog so that I can make more timely updates, open up a dialogue about things Hitchcock, and

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