HitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies

It's The Philadelphia Story from 1940, directed by George Cukor. In our episode on this, the Rotten Tomatoes Greatest RomCom of All Time, we have a tagline face-off, run through a myriad of characters with elements of good and bad, find a secret connection to Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones and much more.

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Time to discuss Diabolique from 1955, directed by that sneaky devil Henri-Georges Clouzot. We run through the entire fiendish thing, focusing in particular on raucous schoolboys, Schrodinger's bumbling cop and the importance of drycleaning timing.

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We're filing a claim on Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity from 1944, in the process discussing the underutilised cinematic possibilities of insurance dramas, hand sanitiser etiquette and anklet signals.

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It's no charade. We really did watch Stanley Donen's 1963 thriller Charade. In this episode, we discuss the many faces of Cary Grant, the correct number of plot twists for a single film and how to pull off a two-for-one cameo without anyone noticing.

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Time for a peeping Cat and peeping Dan peek at Michael Powell's Peeping Tom from 1960. We're covering movies within movies, psychobabble, a quite startling proliferation of redheads and loads of other stuff. Modern-day critics are already calling this podcast episode 'beastly', 'corrupt and empty' and 'perverted nonsense', but we remain hopeful that it will be reassessed more favourably by future podcast judges.

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Dan has developed a new podcasting process that's worth billions of dollars. Naturally, Cat is going to con him out of the process so she can have the money all for herself. With this as a background, we discuss The Spanish Prisoner, covering Mamet Speak, the primitive past of 1997, Hitchcock Easter eggs and much, much more.

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Here's a quick update on our plans for Season 3 and beyond! Plus, an invitation to check out our new and improved website: hitchpodonline.com

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The best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Rear Window from 1954.

On our rewatch of Rear Window, we discuss stealing from James Bond, negligee compression and Jimmy Stewart as Dr Strange.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more. "Pay the two dollars..."

We continue our look at the 2nd best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Psycho to the Oscar’s Best Picture of the same year, The Apartment

We also discuss actuary foreshortening, meaningless busy work and committing to the bit, screenplay-wise, before revealing the best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 2nd best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Psycho from 1960.

On our rewatch of Psycho, we discuss its status as a Christmas movie, succumbing to basic opinions and the overratedness or otherwise of the shower scene.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more. "Pay the two dollars..."

We continue our look at the 3rd best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s North By Northwest to the Oscar’s Best Picture of the same year, Ben-Hur

We also discuss NPC deities, Heston-hidden homoeroticism and the Ben-Hur drinking game, before revealing the 2nd best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 3rd best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is North By Northwest from 1959.

On our rewatch of North By Northwest, we discuss microcosms (with microfilm!), the second most famous Hitchcock scene and a lack of contiguity.

For a behind the scenes breakdown on the making of this movie, check out https://newsletter.danliebke.com/p/north-by-northwest

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more. "Pay the two dollars..."

We continue our look at the 4th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the Oscar’s Best Picture of the same, er, prior year, Bridge on the River Kwai

We also discuss Hitler's testicular limitations, vulture kite fake-outs and the Laws of Cricket, before revealing the 3rd best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

Hitler has only got one ball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 4th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Vertigo from 1958.

On our rewatch of Vertigo, we discuss Severance transitions, the difference between acrophobia and agoraphobia, and poor calf raising form

Check out The Divide by Morgan Richter, a novel with Vertigo elements! https://morganrichter.net/blog/the-divide/

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

We continue our look at the 5th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s The Birds to the Oscar’s Best Picture of the same year, Tom Jones

We also discuss methods for shortening films, root rats, and allowing your children to vote for Oscars, before revealing the 4th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 5th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Birds from 1963.

On our rewatch of The Birds, we discuss Bob Newhart sketches, lava lamps and television show Birdland, before closing out with genuine audio from our local cockatoos

A comedy sketch about Hitchcock publicising this movie can be found at https://newsletter.liebcricket.com/p/the-birds

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

We continue our look at the 6th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train to the Oscar’s Best Picture of the same year, An American in Paris

We also discuss Aunt Harriet-Lois Lane crossovers, elongated Take On Me-style song and dance numbers and fourth wall slippage, before revealing the 5th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 6th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Strangers on a Train from 1951.

On our rewatch of Strangers on a Train, we discuss broken clowns, anonymising your accessories and the benefits of blunt exposition

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

We continue our look at the 7th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder to the Oscar's Best Picture of the same year, On The Waterfront.

We also discuss inexplicable omnipresence, Superman parenting and shoehorning musical numbers into the script, before revealing the 6th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 7th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Dial M For Murder from 1954.

On our rewatch of Dial M For Murder, we discuss possible 3D wordplay, Cary Grant impressions and stocking-stealing dogs.

A comedy sketch about a deleted scene from this movie can be found at https://newsletter.liebcricket.com/p/dial-d-for-deleted-scene

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.