What was Hitchcock doing in the 70's!
C.Parmar
however I understand from watching the "UNIVERSAL STORY", that Hitch was
working for the Studio, until his retirement in 1979. So what was his
position in the Studio in the 70's??? Why only two Movies??
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"We do have an vacancy, 12 in fact.........12 cabins...........12
vancanies!!!!" - Norman Bates
-From Alfred Hitchcock’s "PSYCHO" (1960)
"I’ll lick the stamps!!" - Marion Crane- From Alfred Hitchcock’s "PSYCHO"
(1960)
Norman Bates: You eat like a bird
Marion Crane: And you’d know of course!!
Norman Bates: No, not really. Anyway I hear the expression “eat like a bird”
is really a
fa... falsity!!! -From Alfred Hitchcock’s "PSYCHO" (1960) - In the scene
where
Marion’s having her supper while having a chat with Norman, just as Norman
is about to
butcher her in the shower, later in the night!!!
BillyBond
>Hitchcock only directed two movies in the 70's (Frenzy and Family Plot),
>however I understand from watching the "UNIVERSAL STORY", that Hitch was
>working for the Studio, until his retirement in 1979.
You do realize that in 1970, Alfred Hitchcock was 71 years old, don't you?
Bill Warren
mack twamley
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However, Bill, Michael Curtiz directed six pictures at or after age 71, and
he died at the age of 74. So maybe Hitch was too interested in adding to
his wine collection etc and not enough in making more films. BTW, anybody
know the oldest working director? (Billy Wilder doesn't count, since he's
not working.)
hmat...@ctm.com
wrote:
>Hitchcock only directed two movies in the 70's (Frenzy and Family Plot),
>however I understand from watching the "UNIVERSAL STORY", that Hitch was
>working for the Studio, until his retirement in 1979. So what was his
>position in the Studio in the 70's??? Why only two Movies??
>
>--
>CHAD, LONDON, ENGLAND// Cpa...@lineone.net
>
It's a shame the career had to end with "Family Plot." If the script
is any indication, I believe "Short Night," the film Hitchcock was
(kind of) working on at the time of his death, had the potential of
being a much better "closing act" to his body of work.
BillyBond
>However, Bill, Michael Curtiz directed six pictures at or after age 71, and
>he died at the age of 74.
And Hitchcock directed two. I'm not quite sure what point you're making.
Bill Warren
C.Parmar
I am trying to say that Hitch worked with Universal Studios until 1979.(his
official retirement) What was he doing in the 70's, besides directing two
movies??!!
C.Parmar
>It's a shame the career had to end with "Family Plot." If the script
>is any indication, I believe "Short Night," the film Hitchcock was
>(kind of) working on at the time of his death, had the potential of
>being a much better "closing act" to his body of work.
Did Short Night, ever get made??
C.Parmar
>You do realize that in 1970, Alfred Hitchcock was 71 years old, don't you?
>
> Bill Warren
Yeah, So??!
RFCSAC627N
No. But the script was published in a book called THE LAST DAYS OF ALFRED
HITCHCOCK by David Freeman (the Overlook Press, 1984).
Richard Carnahan
FilmGene
working for the Studio, until his retirement in 1979. So what was his
position in the Studio in the 70's??? Why only two Movies??>>
I spent a couple of days with him in 1974 at the studio. Hitch was not "working
for the studio". He was one of the largest individual stockholders in the
studio. They were working for him!
Furthermore, in his seventies, he worked a lot more carefully and was not
hurried in any way to make pictures. He worked when he felt like it and at the
pace he preferred.
Additionally, in the last decade of his life, he had been "discovered" once
again and was constantly giving interviews, doing publicity, etc. And if he
preferred to work on his wine collection, it's fine with me. He earned that
right.
Gene Stavis, School of Visual Arts - NYC
BillyBond
>And if he
>preferred to work on his wine collection, it's fine with me. He earned that
>right.
mega dittos.
Bill Warren
mack twamley
I didn't mean that AH should NOT have been adding to his wine collection,
and should have been keeping nose to grindstone, grinding out films. If I
had his money, I'D be collecting wines, too.
But my point Bill, is that he took almost a decade doing two films, where
Curtiz made six films in his last three years of life. (as for the
difference between AH and Curtiz, 'I won't go there!' ) But your initial
post, saying that after all, he was 71 when the decade started made it sound
as if he were Methuselah. (Yesterday, I saw a print ad of a gent of 90,
waterskiing barefoot and holding the tow bar in his mouth!)
So 71 isn't exactly pithecanthropus erectus.
Iksnamhcok
>know the oldest working director?
Yes. Nicholas Webster was 104 years old when he directed Santa Claus Conquers
the Martians.
By the way, next on Gus Van Sant's docket is a shot-by-shot recreation of
SCCTM.
FilmGene
waterskiing barefoot and holding the tow bar in his mouth!)
So 71 isn't exactly pithecanthropus erectus.>>
I wonder if the gentleman you refer to was morbidly obese all his life and led
a sedentary lifestyle. I doubt it.
chris...@my-dejanews.com
> >And if he
> >preferred to work on his wine collection, it's fine with me. He earned that
> >right.
>
> mega dittos.
>
made, collecting wine, man that's the life!
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BillyBond
>So 71 isn't exactly pithecanthropus erectus.
Nonetheless, most people have retired by that age. At least, they've slowed
down. And the differences between Curtiz as a director and Hitchcock as a
director are the REASONS why Curtiz made more movies after turning 71 than
Hitchcock did. He made more movies in his career overall.
Bill Warren
BillyBond
>I wonder if the gentleman you refer to was morbidly obese all his life and
>led
>a sedentary lifestyle.
MORBIDLY obese? Hitchcock wasn't THAT fat. That's a specific clinical term;
if Hitch had been >morbidly< obese he would not have been able to do anything.
Bill Warren
FilmGene
if Hitch had been >morbidly< obese he would not have been able to do
anything.>>
That specific clinical term means that you are twice as overweight as the
standard statistics provide. If you ought to weigh 150, for instance, and you
weigh 250, you are morbidly obese. It emphatically does NOT mean that you are
unable to do anything. It simply means that your obesity is potentially
life-threatening.
Hitchcock's profession, which was sedentary, gave him far more leeway in his
activities than would a more physically demanding profession.
ChMonkey
life." And twice 150 is 300, which 250 is less than.
And from the vacations and location shooting described in the book on
_Vertigo_ I just read, his life wasn't sedentary, even if he didn't go in
for rock climbing.
FilmGene wrote, in part:
| I wonder if the gentleman you refer to was morbidly obese all his
| life...
Dick596
Oh, really?
Dick Purcell