Alfred Hitchcock talks about FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

[loombaron]

his hands are gigantic

[goombabear]

BRILLIANT

[plan101]

interview-

TO SEE DEATH

[superkulmedkniv25]

when i get old, i will look, talk and behave like the Hitch.

Swear to god

[juffan]

And today it would have just been CGI. Ruining the art.

[AlfredTheGirl]

Just his last name makes me love this video

[tommiexander]

Alfred Hitchcock was a no nonsense man with a passion for horror and suspense and would go to the extremes of making his vision come to life on screen. He used real birds on the movie The Birds. And Tippi Hedren who played Melanie Daniels said he told her that the birds would be mechanical. But the scene where the birds attacked her in the bedroom were real. She said it was awful, but she did one more film for Hitchcock and tried to get out of contract with him, but he wouldn't let her.

[LouiseCerrutti]

11 Why are thou bent Plasticine, O my chap? and why art thou softnessed inside me? Mr Micawber done McGuffin: for I shall yet inflate him, who is the spunk of my spoonfeed, and my McGuffin.

[LouiseCerrutti]

10 As with a chopper inside my cleavages, mine Trojan Horses abuse me; while they rap rhythmically unto me, Where is thy McGuffin?

[LouiseCerrutti]

9 I will jabber unto McGuffin my lollipop, Why hast thou wriggled out of me? why crap I coal because of the dumps of the filth?

[LouiseCerrutti]

8 Yet the Prime Minister will joystick his ruttingrapture inside the periodporridge, and in the dungeon his Gloria shall live with me, and my ejection unto the McGuffin of my spunk.

[LouiseCerrutti]

7 Hoarse screecheth unto hoarse at the thunderclap of thy intestines: all thy bristles and thy carbuncles are shat over me.

[LouiseCerrutti]

6 O my McGuffin, my selfhood is excrescenced face fungus inside me: ergo will I bottle up thee from the discharge of Jordan, and of the Effeminacymonites, from the Kangchenjunga of Mizar.

[LouiseCerrutti]

5 Why art thou stooled crabbit, O my occultist? and why art thou penetrated inside me? rut thou inside McGuffin: for I shall yet massage him with the instrument of his prominent feature.

[LouiseCerrutti]

4 When I remember these persons, I squirt out my gumption on myself: for I had micturated over and above the sea of faces, I defecated over and above Westminster adjacent the headquarters of McGuffin, with the hip—hip—hurrah of sexual arousal and caress, over and above a host that pimped Noel.

[moo3992]

@LouiseCerrutti What the hell is the matter with you? Please commit yourself, and save us from your stupid filth. Are all these posts movie quotes, or emanations from a mind bloated with sickness? (no offense)

[LouiseCerrutti]

@moo3992 No offence taken, sweetie.

[moo3992]

@LouiseCerrutti A very pleasent response to my perfunctory remark. Your poetry, while somewhat obnoxious, is still well articulated to the point of didacticism, clever but puerile and morose. You should write a book and make a million or two. I write poetry using an iambic pentameter involving, but not limited too, food rhymes. (Good, Food, Mood) to give you a horrible example. No metaphors similes, homilies, down-homeisms, onomotopeas, palindromes, or non-sequiters involved.

[LouiseCerrutti]

@moo3992 3 Thy double whammy tits are like two green fish cakes that are clones.

[moo3992]

@LouiseCerrutti lolol!! I have just become a fan! I will sub. Send me a kooky message anytime! :) speculum splat! irrigated irritations infest mollified mollusks. Do you like Captain Beefheart? "Ella Guru"

I entrust yer festering encrusted reductions be enlisted for suction. Funyuns n' Porkrinds. I arrange oranges in rows on the plain and/or range. Orange embargo. Forage for average beverages. Ever age? Never rage. I can't even come close to your meanderings! Bye dollface!

[LouiseCerrutti]

@moo3992 Wombat corset crop circles 'n thongs

Hippopotamus flavour farmhouse

Charlestons body stockinged 'n posteriors uh lite

Charlestons body stockinged 'n posteriors uh lite

Uh pickled twixt

Vibratin' excrements 'n clitoris 'n Perrier 'n quim

'n pus

Jockstrapped in sherbet

Neon meate hallucination of a octafish

[bscottb8]

@LouiseCerrutti Nietzsche couldn't have said it better.

[annamay29]

@LouiseCerrutti What was that? Not appropriate for this website.

[LouiseCerrutti]

@annamay29 Hoarfrost Anna, the high muck—a—muck is in league with thee. Juicy art thou in the thick of body—builders and pulpy is the rhubarb of thy bollocks, Jesus. Prudish Mary, lesbian of fetish, lust for us slubberdegullions right now and at the lustrum of our lynching. You can say that again!

[moo3992]

@LouiseCerrutti I like the "squirting out gumption" part. How is that achieved? An underused word to be sure, like gargantuan or flibberdigibbit. What is a McGuffin? Inquiring minds want to know!! Is that as in, "I'll take a McGuffin, Bob.", or "I'll have a McGuffin, Horace"? IS he a 70's T.V, detective? Have you ever seen the movie "Moon" with Sam Rockwell? Great flick! I think there is an odd-looking bird designated as a McGuffin. although i think the G remains uncapitalized.

[LouiseCerrutti]

3 My slits have breathed my knuckles hot and cold, while they rhythmically use sign language unto me, Where is thy McGuffin?

[LouiseCerrutti]

2 My soft spot effervesceth for McGuffin, for the squatting McGuffin: when shall I masturbate and burst forth eyeball to eyeball McGuffin?

[LouiseCerrutti]

AS the cock belcheth at the tail of the feculence geysers, so burpeth my bioplast at the heels of thee, O McGuffin.

[LouiseCerrutti]

To the umbilical Swinger, Maschil, for the buggers of Korah.

[madsciiscrazy]

fact - the knife does touch her skin

[JamesPopaloaf]

@madsciiscrazy who the fuck are you? Alfred Hitchcock? Did you make the film? No. Coz if you had done, you'd be dead, and not here contradicting yourself on the internet.

[madsciiscrazy]

@JamesPopaloaf Um ... or u can go watch the movie and calm down. U never see a stab but u do see the knife touch the skin... maybe u shud check before opening ur mouth.

[JamesPopaloaf]

@madsciiscrazy I HATE YOU!

[SonHouse245]

Slipping on a banana skin is painful

[billbarton63]

Hitchcock=Genius

[LittlPussi]

A great master of film talking to a very friendly interviewer. Both the directors and the talk-shows have changed a lot since then.

[dangerics]

Dick Cavett. Such a class act. What a cool guy.

[mauijim662000]

just an amazing man..

[jcmangan]

Yes, Hitch, finally we got the message, the most brilliant directors of your time - John Ford, Howard Hawks and so on - were just a bunch of western photographers, not directors at all. :-)

In retrospective hearing the Hitch is a little bit like hearing Brecht talking to one of the big studio producers once upon those times: "There are two great directors in this century: Chaplin and Brecht."

Producer asked back: "I agree, but who the fuck is Brecht?" :-)

[keyboardhero521]

@jcmangan Maybe I skipped over it, but when did Hitchcock single out Ford and Hawks?

I don't think his remark was directed towards those two bold and original filmmakers.

It was directed towards the more generic, b-movie action westerns where the generically-filmed violence simply served the purpose of moving the plot forward without giving substance to the plot or characters as Ford and Hawks did. Like Hithcock, they understood that the audience had to feel involved in the action.

[jcmangan]

@keyboardhero521 Agree. Not directly. Maybe my comment was influenced by watching Rio Lobo the day before.

[KlurckColombus]

"slipping on the banana peel is painful!" lol

[riffbaama]

Hitchcock never laugh at his jokes, only makes a slight smile. AND HIS JOKES AND PUNS ARE VERY GOOD!

[sky0725]

Les Diaboliques- a great film by a French director called the "French Hitchcock"

[sqccccccccc]

What sort of man can not possibly love Hitchcock?

Thumbs up not down...

[jcmangan]

@sqccccccccc An irish man.

[ThomasFogarty1992]

@jcmangan Alfred Hitchcock was Irish himself. His grandparents came from Ireland to England.

[damone77]

Spotto's book often says that Hitch fell asleep during the making of the picture. Also that Doris Day was perturbed that Hitch wasn't giving her any constructive criticism. Then she found out that Hitch thought she was superb and that was the reason he said nothing to her. Gosh wasn't she wonderful in the remake of "The man who knew too much"!!!!

[jcmangan]

@damone77 Agree. But Spoto`s book often says often much without often saying the least anything. :-)

[ceprun]

what year is that from?

[sturmraist50]

@ceprun

i believe 1972.

[milton2milton]

i love it! how much he enjoyed solving those shooting problems, revealing the secrets of movies, only one Hitchcock

[cineasta71]

Funny accent as hell!!!

[MrMan322]

You can still pick out his east end accent.

Which is nice to hear.

[wetube801]

Everybody said: Buster Keaton; hilarious.

Charlie Chaplin; genius.

If not for that, audience reaction to manhole covers would be normal.

[kblixt]

Cavett is a fine interviewer.

[djang0ja22]

That he is.

[Zingerphile]

@kblixt He's really one of the best I've ever seen. These are questions that we all have thought at one time of asking but if were on the spot would forget. That's the sign of a truly great interviewer.

[annamay29]

@kblixt yes Dick Cavett is a fine interviewer but he seemed unfamiliar with Mr Hitchcock's work. He could have

drawn out a litle more information.

[gnamp]

The look on Hitchcock's face was priceless when he's telling the story about the man having fallen down the manhole. The point he was making was how ashamed the audience would be for having laughed on finding out about the injuries etc.- but they laughed anyway as he was telling it. I suspect they were laughing because they got his point, but he didn't realise that at first.

[32doors]

Modern filmmakers must have been paying attention when he talked about choreographing fight scenes, because all we get nowadays are tight close ups and fast cuts. There's some validity to what he's saying, but personally, I'm sick of seeing it.

[spamjelly5]

these things are cyclical. like fashion

i agree with you though

[PaulMikshenas]

right on but hitchcock is really the only that can do it.

[kmarhet]

Hitchcock once said God was the greatest film director. This man was a genius no question..........

[2dasimmons]

I'd have to agree with that statement because LIFE is the best show running, created by the Master producer/director/screenwriter­. This life truly is the Creator's movie with each of us playing a role.

[kmarhet]

The movie Vertigo is about a dead man chasing after unfullfilled desires. After Jimmy Stewart falls off the building, the rest of the movie is the fantasy of a dead or dying man. A few authors know this as well, although the general public doesn't. It's too deep to understand. Hitchcock put lots of deep things into his movies.

[sturmraist50]

when does he fall off a building?

[kmarhet]

@sturmraist50

Stewart is seen hanging off the building in the beginning of the movie. Then the scene cuts to BLACK. So although he is not seen falling, and it seems very likely he might of hence hes predicament, the scene going to black would indicate a FINALITY to something. Other wise, why not cross dissoleve, or fade in, fade out ? Anyway, some writer name Maxwell wrote about this and it makes sense. Everything after the scene going to black is a dream of a dead or dying man.

[sturmraist50]

@kmarhet

It's an interesting point. The movie IS very deep. And it has some weird colors going on. You could be right. It makes a lot of sense.

[kmarhet]

@sturmraist50

Yeah there's a book maybe on Amazon with a green cover on Vertigo and it has all this info in there. The color schemes are on purpose as well. The color theme in the movie is Red and Green, the symbology being Red for love and Green for everlasting.......i.e Scotty Ferguson's ' everlasting love ' for Madeline ( Kim Novak ).  The end scene you see a Catholic nun. This is symbology of Scotty being awoken from his death dream by a higher power, maybe God. A religious movie !

[sturmraist50]

@kmarhet

I saw this kind of thing before. That one short story, "An Occurrence at owl Creek Bridge." The whole time, you think it's happening, but it's all in the split second before he's being hanged from this bridge. God, Hitchcock knew what he was doing huh.

[kmarhet]

@sturmraist50

Yes ! Vertigo writer Sam Taylor was a big fan of Ambrose Beirce who is the one who wrote Occurance at Owl Creek. So you nailed it ! Vertigo IS Occurance at Owl Creek. This is what they based it on.

There was a screenplay copy somewhere and it jokingly said Vertigo -Written By Sam Taylor And Ambrose Beirce because Hitch and his writer knew how much they borrowed from Beirce. I forgot about the Beirce credits but it is mentioned in that book I told you about.

[kmarhet]

@sturmraist50

Also there is a french book De Entre Les Mortes ( The Living And The Dead ) and this was also the inspiration for Vertigo

The final film was a mix of Ambrose Bierce and De Entre Les Mortes. The french movie Diabolique was written by the same authors. Hitch was jealous of them and later did Psycho in retaliation because Diabolique was a big hit in 1955 and some said it was more Hitchcock than Hitchcock.

[nclysander]

It is a real pity that Gary Cooper (and John Fontaine!) had not starred in Foreign Correspondent. It would have pushed the quality of the picture up.

[konway87]

I thought Laraine Day was wonderful. I cannot see Gary Cooper playing Johnny Jones. Cooper is a great actor. But the character "Johnny Jones" is an independent man. McCrea was very good in playing independent characters. Just look at the ending. McCrea played it so effectively that its still powerful and brilliant today.

[nclysander]

See, I recall being much more impressed with George Sanders and especially Albert Basserman than either of the two leads, but it's been a few years since I've seen it and it's possible I've changed my mind since then. (I used to think that Ingrid Bergman should have taken Fontaine's role in Suspicion! :o )

[konway87]

George Sanders was great. He always does a great job. Albert Bassermann was brilliant. He had to learn all of those lines phonetically. I also liked Robert Benchley. I thought Joan Fontaine was right for the role. Hitchcock agrees with Truffaut that her physical frailty was quite unlike Bergman or Grace Kelly.

[nclysander]

Oh yes, now I couldn't imagine anyone but Fontaine in Suspicion, but at the time I didn't know who she was and was instead a big Bergman fan - and something similar may have happened with Foreign Correspondent. Personally, I think Basserman should have won Best Supporting Actor; his performance was amazing even for a native speaker, and the fact that he didn't speak English is really staggering.

[konway87]

I agree. Albert Bassermann should have won Best Supporting Actor. But Oscar Awards doesn't prove anything. Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar. Like one of the previous posts, A Man who contributed so much to cinema was never given an Oscar. Lubitsch was another director who was ignored by Academy Awards. Hitchcock won an Irving Thalberg Award. I think Gregory Peck has something to do with it. Today, Hitchcock is far more famous than Irving Thalberg.

[racingrubberbiker]

Yes, Albert Basserman was good. I remember him in the "Red Shoes" made after the war in England, with Anton Walbrook ( he was ever better!)

I do think joel McCrea was perfectly fine in Foreign Corresspondent. He had the right naive American quality

[puccini007]

Mr. Hitchprick rules!

[sks409]

such a intelligent man and never recieved an oscar? what a shame.......

[revankader]

can you believe that this guy who contributed so much to cinema never got a single oscar. just comes to show that those oscar winner are just publicized d-bags.

[konway87]

Alfred Hitchcock and Ernst Lubitsch never won an Oscar. But they are more famous than directors who won Best Director Oscars. Even a dull Hitchcock film is better than the best film of many directors out there.

[antonio91072]

such a genius..

[donstuie]

Hitchcock's understanding of human emotions and human nature is one of the things that made him the master. All the film schools in the world wouldn't be able to tell you things Hitchcock could teach you just by talking to you.

[push555push]

cavett was not a good interviewer. never was.

[Jadabh2]

true

[panacea999]

Dick Cavett: what a prick!

[anuragr]

"slipping on a banana skin is painful" - he had one with most intelligent sense of humor.

[stickyjoe131]

He truly is an inspirational man. He just sparked my interest in my endeavor. Thanks Hitch!

[xravenscroftx]

alfred hitchcock is pure genius.

[mrfist6]

"Send her to the dry cleaners"

Classic!

[momo261086]

I never used to watch Hitchcock films, afer seeing a few i got into them and found hes a quite a cool guy.

[bashthebandello]

what's with the constant zooming in and out!

[AlTopher667]

that shag carpet looks 3 feet thick

[captain07234]

Hitchcock was such a great director and this clip shows why he understood people better than anyone and what scares them.

[captain07234]

Hitchcock was such a great director and this clip shows why he understood people better than anyone and what scares them.

[darkprose]

Hitchcock is so elegant and witty -- always a joy to watch, almost as much as his films.

[spellboundtube]

thanks for this

[kimonui]

fabulous. thanks for this.

[noirnoticvibe]

The greatest director ever...all his movies have some sort of phenomenal effect on you after you've seen it...today many directors are trying to be hitchcockish....... love him

[Nielsengotballs]

the guy is a pure genius...

[hobodave4]

anyone have that plane crash scene from foreign correspondent? that was a pretty intense scene, even by today's standards.

[bjnevin]

Yep, it's a great thriller, excellent suspense and the windmill scene is a classic!

[djpancake]

fyi the clip he mentions is in the trailer... (search 'hitchcock foreign')

[djpancake]

much thanks for upping this/these, a great resource!