Comments on: Spotting Hitch: Help with Finding Hitchcock’s Cameos

By: The Pterodactyl from Citizen Kane

The Pterodactyl from Citizen Kane — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:36:07 +0000

Hitchcock’s cameo in “Lifeboat” was copied by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant”, although I don’t know if it was an intented homage or he just came up with the same solution. Fassbinder, who acted or had a cameo appearance in most of his films couldn’t get a part for himself in the film which – adopted from his own play – is set entirely in an apartment, or more specifically in one bed, so he did the same as Hitchcock: his image appears in a newspaper on an image, behind one of the main characters.

Some fans of Hitchcock speculate that he had a “secret cameo” in “North by Northwest” as an old lady on the train questioned by the police, in drag.

By: The Pterodactyl from Citizen K

The Pterodactyl from Citizen K — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:36:00 +0000

Some fans of Hitchcock speculate that he had a “secret cameo” in “North by Northwest” as an old lady on the train questioned by the police, in drag.

By: Mister Hand

Mister Hand — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:58:34 +0000

I consider THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY and FAMILY PLOT to be the only Hitchcock films I never watched more than once.

By: Mister Hand

Mister Hand — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:58:00 +0000

I consider THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY and FAMILY PLOT to be the only Hitchcock films I never watched more than once.

By: Maggie Van Ostrand

Maggie Van Ostrand — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:51:28 +0000

Some consider Trouble with Harry a comedy, but Hitchcock himself didn’t.

Hitchcock considered The Trouble With Harry to be “a whimsical grotesquerie,” which is different from comedy.

By: Maggie Van Ostrand

Maggie Van Ostrand — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:51:00 +0000

Some consider Trouble with Harry a comedy, but Hitchcock himself didn’t.

Hitchcock considered The Trouble With Harry to be “a whimsical grotesquerie,” which is different from comedy.

By: Cole Abaius

Cole Abaius — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:39:35 +0000

My favorite is that newspaper ad in Lifeboat. It’s also awesome that the product is called “Reduco Obesity Slayer.” And Hitch is both before and after in the pictures, because he’d just lost 100 pounds. No lie.

The lesson of this article is that Tallulah Bankhead should never wear panties.

By: Cole Abaius

Cole Abaius — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:39:00 +0000

The lesson of this article is that Tallulah Bankhead should never wear panties.

By: Mister Hand

Mister Hand — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:02:38 +0000

Wow! Nice article. Enjoyed very much taking a trek back through all of those movies that I loved when I was a kid. He has my sympathy filming that PSYCHO shower scene, though. If I’d had Janet Leigh naked in the shower, I believe it would have taken me weeks as well to get it… just… RIGHT.

By: Mister Hand

Mister Hand — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:02:00 +0000