Happy Birthday, Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock–the master craftsman of suspense. Not only could the man put together a mean movie (no pun intended, sometimes) but he had a wicked sense of humor. Emphasis on the wicked. Example: his solution below for something that afflicts the majority of this site’s readers…

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When was the last time you had a filmmaker talking to you, the audience, directly in a trailer, trying to convince you to come and see their film? Or at least, the last time they did so in such a delightfully twisted fashion?

If they were showing stuff like this in front of movies instead of forty-five minutes of commercials, you’d show up early to the cinema, all right.

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I’d have posted that “every cameo” vid that somebody created so you can see where he appeared in all his films, but I don’t think Hitch would have liked that at all. So.

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