Friday, January 2, 2009

The 39 Steps

d/Alfred Hitchcock

This was the last film he made in England before coming to the US and Rebecca.  

I thought it was pretty bad. Set firmly in movie reality, it was impossible for me to care about anything these so-called people were going through.

By the time he got to the two people handcuffed together he had lost me completely. That sequence was so irritating I had to turn it off. I had the same reaction years ago when I attempted it. 

The only British film he made that worked for me was The Lodger.  

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