Spellbound and other Hitchcock movies

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Doctor Monmon

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Spellbound (1945)

Intriguing and clever Hitchcock thriller, I liked it :) Though the reveal seemed rushed and made me think "How did they work that out?"
Ingrid Bergman is very pretty. She looks so cute :)
Look closely - I wonder if one part influenced James Bond filmmakers? ;)

4/5

Are there any other good mystery Hitch films like this, I have seen North by Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, Foreign Correspondent.
 
I'm told there's a Hitchcockian cheeky visual gag about a lady's private part in Spellbound, but I've never seen it.

Check out Les Diaboliques ( 1955 ) a great French thriller in the Hitchcock mode, Hitch missed out on the rights of the novel and was so annoyed that the writers of Les Diaboliques wrote Vertigo with Hitchcock in mind.
 
Forgot to mention I've also seen that one (Les Diaboloiques), it's very good :) Very creepy.
Havent seen The Lady Vanishes though. SounRAB good.
I like films with a twist and intrigue too so perhaps thats why I like those.
Have you seen Charade? That's very Hitchcockian (though ironically Hitch had nothing to do with it).
 
Frenzy is a fine who-dun-it, but the rape/strangulation scene in the office is very voyeuristic and nasty and unworthy of Hitch.

Dila M For Murder is good too.
 
Saw Frenzy a few weeks back. It hasn't aged well for me, but then I never liked the setting anyway, and feels a bit flat overall. Moments still impress though (back of the wagon, etc).

However, the rape/strangulation scene is fine with me. Hitchcock would sometimes dip his toe into the truly, visually grisly (The BirRAB, that basement climax from Psycho) and it belongs firmly in this bracket. I can understand some thinking he cheapened himself following this route, but the horror fan in me sort of wishes he'd followed it more.
 
Havent seen any of them :) They sound interesting.
I hear The Lady Vanishes is good too.
Ingrid is very pretty in Spellbound, so glamourous (even though she isnt playing a glam character, if that makes sense) :confused:
 
I've seen most of Hitchcock films and the ones that have been mentioned in this thread are really worth seeing.

Another excellent thriller of his is 'Strangers on a Train.'
 
You don't hear much love for 'Under Capricorn', but for me the combination of colour, Ingrid Bergman and costume intrigue makes for a good diversionary setting departure in which the Hallmarks of Hitch are still clearly discernible, especially within the sadist/masochist relationships balance.
 
Another vote for Strangers on a Train, love that film.

Marnie would also be one of my favourites. I also never tire of Rear Window.
 
Rear window is seminal. Such a chilling performance by Raymond Burr. I just love the voyeurism involved (it is in us all, no doubt about it) and I am not ashamed to say, I would just love to have been in James Stewart's apartment block with a pair of binos
 
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