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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: "Strangers on a Train" on TCM tonight...
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Zaz
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6/13/06 6:54am
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing "Champagne" (1928)
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[sternly]No skipping![/sternly]
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TheBoogieMan
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6/23/06 9:27pm
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing "Champagne" (1928)
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And the next film is…?
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solojones
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7/8/06 7:43pm
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Sorry, I was on medical leave at Mayo Clinic and then I was on vacation in New England. I'm back now.
The next film is
Easy Virtue (1928)
This is a drama. According to IMDB, what it's about is: Laurita Finton is accused by her husband of being in love with an artist. There is a trial, but the artist, who has been rejected by the girl, kills himself. Laurita's world is destroyed so she decides to leave, changing her identity and starting a new life. She falls in love with a rich young man, John Whittaker, but his family doesn't like Laurita, a girl with an "easy virtue". John's mother finds out about the shadows in Laurita's past and tells everything to her son.
I haven't seen it, but this is really interesting. Even though it's not a suspense, it seems to clearly have a lot of the elements that would mark Hitch's famous suspense films. I would be interested in seeing this one. Apparently you can get it on DVD along with 'Blackmail'.
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Zaz
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7/8/06 8:58pm
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing "Easy Virtue" (1928)
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It sounds a good bit like "Notorious" and "The Paradine Case."
(Note: In those days, if you caught your spouse in adultery, you sue them & their lover, so that's what the reference to a trial is.)
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Zaz
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7/14/06 11:29pm
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing "Easy Virtue" (1928)
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Programing note: TCM is showing an upcoming movie in this thread: "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) starring Joel McCrea, tomorrow at 5:00 pm PT.
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solojones
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7/16/06 6:09pm
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing "Easy Virtue" (1928)
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The Farmer's Wife (1928)
This is a drama and apparently somewhat of a comedy that I admit I haven't heard of either Here's what the IMDB summary says:
Farmer Sweetland is an old and lonely widower who manages to marry again. He likes three ladies, but they all reject him, instigated by Aramintha, the farmer's maid who is secretely in love with her master. The farmer seems to start thinking love is no more his business, but he realizes that the right woman has always lived by his side. She is Aramintha herself.
Another one of thse somewhat quirky earlier films of Hitch's. I think it's interesting, though. Before he found his nitch as the 'Master of Suspense', he really made a fair variety of films. I think some of these interestingly reveal the things he cared about that he put so masterfully into his other, supposed 'genre' films.
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Zaz
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7/16/06 8:44pm
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing "The Farmer's Wife" (1928)
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This film was adapted from a very successful London stage play. In his interview book with Hitchcock, Truffaut describes the film as being influenced by Murnau and the German school. Hitchcock says that he took over of the camera himself when the cameraman got sick, but that he considered that the film had too much dialogue and 'too many titles.'
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solojones
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7/27/06 10:15pm
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Sorry, I've been gone a lot.
The Manxman (1929)
IMDB summary-
Poor fisherman Pete falls in love with Kate, the daughter of a landlord on Man island. Pete decides to leave on his ship to earn some money and then to marry the girl. Before leaving, Pete asks his friend Philip to take care of Kate, but the young man is in love with her too. There comes the tragic news: Pete's ship is wrecked. Philip and Kate have to hide no more and they plan to marry; however, Pete is not dead.
Oooh, this seems like a juicy, Hitchcock-esque personal story. Even if it is lacking the suspenseful aspects of his later films. This one sounds like it could have the personal conflict aspect down.
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Zaz
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7/28/06 11:01am
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I think Hitchcock says to Truffaut about this film that it involved one of the characters being put on trial for attempted suicide (then against the law) which horrified foreign critics, as well it might.
I'd like to see this.
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Ok, ok, sorry for being late here. I've been in some exciting places- Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin...
Blackmail (1929)
From the book:
Having starred in Hitchcock's previous film, The Manxman, Polish-born Anny Ondra appears to have been the first in a succession of ice-cool blondes with whom Hitchcock became fascinated. The actress plays a tobacconist's daughter who becomes conscience-stricken after fatally stabbing a pickup artist (Cyril Ritchard) during an attempted seduction (or rape?). All the while Ondra's detective boyfriend (John Loongden) conceals incriminating evidence: her glove, prefiguring the cigarette lighter in Strangers on a Train. Seemingly a simple story of love versus duty, Blackmail is actually memorably ironic and profound. Based on a hit play and begun as a silent, this became Britain's first synchronous-sound feature film. The landmark talkie is noted for its innovative sound and special effects, including a famous chase scene through the British Museum, culminating in the blackmailer's fall from the doomed roof.
Future director Ronald Neame was the 'clapperboy' on the film; Michael Powell was the stills cameraman.
This is one I would *really* love to see, but haven't. Not just because of Hitchcock, but because of its place in cinema history in general. Truth be told, though, there are a lot of these kinds of 'cinematic landmark' films I haven't seen. I'm on my way, though. Why tomorrow I'm watching MASH, which features the first use of the f-word Ok so I've seen that one, but not in a long time.
Well, I've added this one to my Netflix queue anyway. So I'll have seen it by about the time we're on, oh, say, Vertigo 
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Zaz
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I'd love to see it, too. The chase in the British Museum, especially.
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solojones
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Yeah that especially caught my eye. Particularly because I've been to the British Museum and I always enjoy shouting, "I've been there!"
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Zaz
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8/9/06 12:14pm
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I think it was planned as a silent film, and they had to dub Ondra, who had a heavy accent.
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It was planned silent, but the technology for sound became available partway through filming.
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Zaz
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8/10/06 12:57pm
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Typically, Hitchcock wasn't fazed by the switch to sound and even experimented.
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