[Quote]This is for William Pratt and Philip Marlowe.

You are the two biggest egomaniacal idiots in the world who think they are always right. Just because someone puts forward the point that Hitch was afraid of policemen, (which the REAL expertsof Hitchcok know to be true - read more, instead of blindly faffing and accept the fact that others DO KNOW MORE THAN YOU), you immediately feel threatened and vehemently do everything in your power to say NO.

Show some bloody maturity - grow up - it's a viewpoint and you don't have to keep convincing cherry kosher (yes, even this is a proud alias name). If not, too bad. It just shows that you resemble tow jokers from a Samuel Beckett play " Waiting for Godot'.[Quote]

What on earth are you ranting about? For your information, I don't make up facts about anything or anyone. Had you ever read Donald Spoto's "Dark Side of Genius" (a marvelous Hitchcock biograhy) you might have learned that a young Alfred's father had him locked in a cell for some minutes an experience that followed Alfred all his life.

Spoto wrote extensively about Hitchcock, so I serisouly doubt he's making up facts as he goes along either.

May I suggest that you famliarize yourself with the facts before you accuse others of not knowing them. Much appreciated, p marlowe

ASOLO - do you think she jumped? Or what about the dark figure of the Sister coming through the door to the Bell Tower that caused her to react and fall? A guilty conscience perhaps.

Hi, i was just wondering if Alfred Hitchcok ever did any painting, if so, where might i find an inventory of his work?

A re-appraisal of "The Paradine Case" is overdue.

Many peopple view this film as a basically Selznick picture, and there is no doubt that the man's mucky paw prints have effected the movie, but I think this movie has a similar autobiographical resonance to "Vertigo". The film concentrates on how the male obsession first deifies then discards the fantasy figure Madaleina Paradine. The character of Mrs Paradine is very strong and constant throughout the Movie whereas the males, Peck and Jourdan are seen as weak, slaves to their extreme infatuation. I get the impression that Mrs Paradine wants to confess from the start but that the men, Coburn, Peck...won't allow it (smitten from the start). I'd like people to sit through the movie again...(I know the script gets heavy and clunky in the courtroom)..go with it and watch the emphasis on the close ups. The nub of the story is about a married man falling for the principal character in his professional case. Although Selznick is credited with the screenplay, Alma Reville takes a credtit as script advisor. Are there biographical allusions from Mrs H. (Alma) in the Laughton/Barrymore and Peck/Todd relationships? Watch this again and tell me what you think?

BTW

I'm unsure "lil Belle" if Alfred went so far as painting but am aware that he would sketch sets for set designers and costumes for costumers. What he did do was collect artworks...notably a number of Walter Sickert's works (more recently this artist has been accused by an Amreican crime writer "Patricia Cornwell" as the original "Jack the Ripper".

Note to Mr Marlowe

Whilst your comment that Alfred Hitchcock was locked up by the police on a suggestion of his father may indeed be correct...it is not a fact. Hitchcock told this anecdote a number of times and it must indeed have a lot of truth to it..but there is no evidence to support the claim, this must be remembered.

Hi I was hoping that someone, anyone here can help me find the name of a particular Alfred Hitchcock film. All I can remember from it is a flashback scene of the hero as a child. He is sliding down a banister outside an apartment of some sorts. We only see his feet. At the end of the banster, we see another child (his brother?). As the child reaches the bottom, his feet hit the other and pushes him off and ONTO a spiked fence.

Please tell me, which film is this?

Hi I need some help Can any one tell me if this movie was a Hitchcock and possibly the name of it. a woman holds a man hostage in a bedroom & tortures him she is a nutter, she smashes his legs and doesn't let him out, she is really sadistic. Thanks mauzd

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