# Hitchcockesque films

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchcockesque-films/666490
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 17, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchcockesque-films/666490 "2013-08-17T14:33:19Z")
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### Author: ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchcockesque-films/666490/21 "2013-08-18T03:05:40Z")

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Would _Fargo_ fit the bill? I think he would have liked it regardless.

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### Author: ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchcockesque-films/666490/22 "2013-08-18T17:57:36Z")

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I don’t think it’s a great film, but _Winter Kills_ might fit into this category. I looked at the Wikipedia entry on it and realized that the story of the its making might be an even better movie than the movie itself:

> **[Winter Kills (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Kills_(film))**
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> Winter Kills is a 1979 satirical black comedy thriller film written and directed by William Richert, based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Richard Condon. A fiction inspired by the assassination conspiracy of President John F. Kennedy, its all-star cast includes Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins, Eli Wallach, Richard Boone, Toshirō Mifune, Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Malone, Belinda Bauer, Ralph Meeker, Elizabeth Taylor, Berry Berenson and Susan Walden.
> The film simplifies the plot o...

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### Author: ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchcockesque-films/666490/23 "2013-08-18T18:01:24Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Of course, if you’re talking Hitchcock tributes, you have to include Mel Brooks’ **High Anxiety** , even if that is tongue-in-cheek.

Also **The Wrong Guy**.

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