 | MOVIE #1,851 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.26.24 EVERY OTHER FRIDAY I’M REVIEWING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. THIS IS TGI-HITCHOCK! Peck returns for his second (of two) Hitchcock collabs, after Spellbound. The whole setup of this — that Peck is in love with the accused heiress of a blind man — sort of doesn't work because there are no sparks between them. All of the scenes with them together are stilted and void of flirtation. Yet everyone just assumes they are going to run off together if she gets off for the entire first half of the film. This is a pretty meh effort, Hitchcock's final collaboration with David O. Selznick, and he clearly couldn’t wait to be free of not having full control over the final product. This Peck quote sums it up perfectly: “He seemed really bored with the whole thing…” |
everyone should have a self-portrait built into their bed
Hitchock would experiment in technicolor starting with his next movie and you just can't get these beautiful shadows outside of B&W
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The Paradine Case is a 1947 courtroom drama with elements of film noir set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht wrote the screenplay from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James Bridie of the 1933 novel by Robert Smythe Hichens. The film stars Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, and Louis Jourdan. It tells of an English barrister who falls in love with a woman who is accused of murder, and how it affects his relationship with his wife. It was released on December 29, 1947.
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