# What Hitchcock movies should I watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073 "2005-01-16T20:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073/21 "2005-02-15T22:59:46Z")
My favorites, in order: Dial ‘M’ for Murder Psycho Rear Window Lifeboat (I’m personally _stunned_ that I’m only the second person to mention this) Vertigo But yeah, the short answer is “all of them”. _Blackmail_ is next in my Netflix queue! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![\_xiao\_wenti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/b782af/32.png) [@\_xiao\_wenti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_xiao_wenti)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073/22 "2005-02-16T00:10:16Z")
I guess that I am an iconoclast. By far my fave is “The trouble with Harry.” It is so unlike his other work. It is a black romantic comedy. And Shirley Maclaine was really cute 50 years ago. Her first movie, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073/23 "2005-02-16T04:02:39Z")
> [@richardb](#): > > His very early films are fascinating just from a film historian point of view. You can see him experiment with some early techniques. One early film whose title I can’t remember, for example, has an ordinary breakfast conversation being heard by a woman who had to stab a lecherous attacker to death the night before. Gradually all other words of the conversation get softer and softer until she just hears KNIFE! … KNIFE!.. KNIFE! A very cool scene. That would be [Blackmail](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019702/#comment) (1929), generally regarded as the first ‘talkie’ made in Great Britain. In fact, some of it was already in the can as a silent movie and it was reshot with sound. I saw it some years ago and, except for the above-mentioned scene, don’t remember a thing about it. DD ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073/24 "2005-02-16T04:17:30Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > Roger! You got to nail Eva Marie Saint and \* North by Northwest \* isn’t your favorite?? It’s mine, and I’ve never had the pleasure… There would appear to be something amiss with your reading skills. And a word of advice. I got to “nail” Miss Saint because I’m not a crude kind of fellow who would use words like “nail”. Anyway, I rogered her. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073/25 "2005-02-16T12:03:07Z")
Young and Innocent, and Sabotage. Some of the earlier ones are good but unfortunately the quality today makes them hard watching. But I agree with a previous poster- watch them all. He was a genius. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073/26 "2005-02-16T14:43:10Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > There would appear to be something amiss with your reading skills. And a word of advice. I got to “nail” Miss Saint because I’m not a crude kind of fellow who would use words like “nail”. > > Anyway, I rogered her. Roger that, roger. I woulda tapped it like a keg. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073/27 "2005-02-19T03:08:12Z")
It appears \*\*Lifeboat \*\* is not available on DVD [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-hitchcock-movies-should-i-watch/285073.md?page=1)