Credit where credit is due: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot
This week's must read: an excellent review and analysis of Hitchcock against the facts and Stephen's book (from which the film's based). Happy holidays to all, and as Hitch would say in his holiday greeting:
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Patricia Hitchcock and Janet Leigh in Psycho.
Los Angeles Review of Books - Producers Anonymous: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot:
(from the article)
And so there was a happy ending to Psycho, after all — just not the one that Hitchcock invents, in which Hitch and Alma bond as loving collaborators outside the theater after the picture’s Chicago opening. That happy ending is, unhappily, a fake. As John Russell Taylor reports in his biography of the director and Pat Hitchcock O’Connell corroborates in her biography of Alma, the Hitchcocks were, in fact, traveling in Europe when Psycho opened.
Happy
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Patricia Hitchcock and Janet Leigh in Psycho.Los Angeles Review of Books - Producers Anonymous: Alfred Hitchcock’s Family Plot:
(from the article)
And so there was a happy ending to Psycho, after all — just not the one that Hitchcock invents, in which Hitch and Alma bond as loving collaborators outside the theater after the picture’s Chicago opening. That happy ending is, unhappily, a fake. As John Russell Taylor reports in his biography of the director and Pat Hitchcock O’Connell corroborates in her biography of Alma, the Hitchcocks were, in fact, traveling in Europe when Psycho opened.
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