{"id":2571,"date":"2008-09-15T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2008-09-15T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:30:00","slug":"hitchcocks-10-best-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"Hitchcock’s 10 Best"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>TimesOnLine recently posted their choices<\/span><\/a> for the Hitchcock’s 50 Most Memorable Moments<\/span>. Using just their selections, I provide for your perusal, my Top Ten Hitchcock Moments:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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  1. North by Northwest<\/span> (1959) The crop-dusting scene<\/span>: This is perhaps Hitchcock\u2019s most famous scene<\/span>: Cary Grant<\/span> on the run from killers, finds himself alone in the middle of nowhere. A crop duster appears on the horizon. As it flies closer, we know even before the machine gun fire, that Grant<\/span> has been found!\n

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  2. Psycho<\/span> (1960) The shower scene:<\/span> If the crop dusting scene isn\u2019t Hitchcock\u2019s most famous<\/span>, then this has to be. We still believe that Janet Leigh<\/span>, the star of the movie, is going to come out okay. Once she takes a shower things will start looking up. Unfortunately they don\u2019t, and she should have. Through the shower curtain we can see the murderer quietly sneaking over. Suddenly the shower curtain is thrown back, Bernard Herrmann\u2019s score<\/span> blasts and anyone who has ever seen the scene knows that taking a shower will never be the same.\n

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  3. The Birds<\/span> (1963) Climbing frame:<\/span> When Tippi Hedren<\/span> sits on bench and lights up a cigarette we see a single crow on the monkey bars behind her. As she begins to smoke a few more land. She\u2019s oblivious to them and what they represent. Finally she takes notice of a bird that flies into frame and to the monkey bars. She [and the audience] see for the first time that dozens, perhaps hundreds of birds now cover the playground equipment.\n

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  4. The Birds<\/span> (1963) The \u201cGod\u201d shot<\/span>: This film is filled with so many memorable moments, and who can forget this classic scene? Hitchcock<\/span> literally gives us a bird\u2019s eye view<\/span> of the carnage below\u2026 birds attacking, as the gas station explodes and the town goes up in flames\u2026 and as the camera looks in all directions all we can see are more birds!\n

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  5. Psycho<\/span> (1960) The discovery of \u201cMother\u201d in the basement<\/span>: Theater owners wouldn\u2019t let people come in during the last minutes of the movie so as not to ruin the shocking surprise as we discover for the first time, the secret of \u201cmother.\u201d\n

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  6. North by Northwest<\/span> (1959) The amazing denoument<\/span>: Cary Grant<\/span> and Eva Marie Saint<\/span> have been chased across the country and find themselves trapped on, of all places, the presidents\u2019 heads on Mount Rushmore<\/span>. She is barely hanging on as Grant<\/span> stretches to pull her up and suddenly\u2026a happy ending. Like in Vertigo<\/span> where we don\u2019t see how Jimmy Stewart<\/span> manages to get back to safety, it just doesn\u2019t matter.\n

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  7. <\/span><\/span>Saboteur<\/span> (1942) The Statue of Liberty dangle<\/span>: Bob Cummings<\/span> finally confronts the foreign agent at the top of the Statue of Liberty<\/span>. During the struggle, the agent goes over the side, barley saved by Cummings\u2019 grip<\/span> on his sleeve. As Cummings<\/span> struggles to bring him up the sleeve begins to slowly rip\u2026 one stitch at a time. Then comes the fall that seems to last almost as long!\n

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  8. Lifeboat<\/span> (1944) Starring Alfred Hitchcock: <\/span> Alfred Hitchcock<\/span> was the first director that I knew by name. I used to love looking for his cameos in movies and this was perhaps his most clever. He appears in a newspaper diet ad.\n

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  9. Psycho<\/span> (1960) Marion Crane\u2019s car journey to the Bates motel: <\/span> Poor Janet Leigh<\/span> has gotten in way over her head, but she\u2019s the heroine of the story so despite the bad weather and the worries so clearly seen from her expressions, we know everything will turn out okay in the end.\n

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  10. Rear Window<\/span> (1954) Lisa is caught in Thorwarld\u2019s apartment<\/span>: Grace Kelly<\/span> plays Lisa, Jimmy Stewart\u2019s girlfriend<\/span>. Stewart<\/span> is convinced that the neighbor across the courtyard has killed his wife. Lisa<\/span> goes in to the neighbor\u2019s apartment to search for evidence as Stewart<\/span> watches from his window, immobilized with two broken legs. He [and we] are shocked when the murderer suddenly returns to find Lisa<\/span> in his apartment!\n

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