Cary Grant

The famous scene in which Carey Grant is being chased by a crop-dusting plane.

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[fly1041]

They filmed this scene in a remote area about 20 miles northwest of a little town in California called Wasco. I lived on a small farm a mile from the set. We were out there almost every day for two weeks. I was 12 years old and had no idea who Cary Grant was, but my mother did. I thought he sounded funny pronouncing my name--ROY! The local pilot of the plane was Bob Coe. Today I'm owner and pilot of a Piper Cherokee. The man who works on it is Bob Coe, also a pilot and son of the original pilot.

[Ryan Prince]

"My wives divorced me. They said I led too dull a life."

[MrSwirls1]

HOLY CRAP ITS THE KOALA BROTHERS

[Michael Richart]

That does make sense, and I appreciate Hitchcock's directing. However, I have seen this scene on YouTube with dubbed over music, and it does raise the suspense, personally for me. It's another way to emphasize the mood of the story.

[graciepedrotti]

no way, its the juxtaposition of the silence with the rest of the music in the movie.

"No music is needed here. The bleak spaces of the long crop-duster scene are emphasized through a silence all he more eerie and shocking because the score throughout the film is otherwise so omnipresent. "Music" is provided by cars roaring across the screen through empty space with startling stereophonic realism and by the terrifying buzz of the deadly airplane."

[araymond1able]

I have this in the released Blu-Ray and it is totally awesome. It's like seeing the movie all over again in a new retrospect. Hitchcock like the genius he is makes you wait in this scene until the last possible moment. A car passes, another, A 16 wheeler, then the man that takes the bus across from him. Then just when you think he's on a wild goose chase here comes that bi-plane and IT begins. Run Cary Run.........

[Michael Richart]

This would have been more suspenseful had Hitchcock added in the theme music.

[Nate sw]

I dont think it matters what it is, Hitchcock used Mcguffin's which are items in his movies that audiences have no knowledge of what they are because the important parts of the story are the characters and not the chromo, uranium or other things hes used.

[Nate sw]

there are still theaters around that show hitchcock movies in their original print. I saw Rear Window a few years ago on 35mm but my school recently gave Notorious to UCLA grrrrr

[Nate sw]

its true, im taking peter bodgonavich's class at UNCSA, who was a long time friend and wrote many books on him. Currently writing a 6-7 page paper on this scene and a scene from Notorious

[MrParadroid]

corn grows and dries very fastly

[Cole Baker]

WHO THE FUCK IS FLYING THE PLANE

(not the pilot Hitchcock used, I mean in the story. Is it Vandamn's men?)