HitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies – Details, episodes & analysis

The 12th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Lady Vanishes from 1938.

On our rewatch of The Lady Vanishes, we recommend extending comic misunderstandings, talk about pot plant plot points and reveal the most plausible scene of the entire film.

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We continue our look at the 13th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Best Picture winner Rebecca to a zero-Oscar nomination film of the same year, His Girl Friday.

We also discuss alternative alliterative titles, the possibly bidirectional influence of Lois Lane and being set up by Cary Grant, before revealing the 12th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

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The 13th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Rebecca from 1940.

On our rewatch of Rebecca, we consider the possibilities of Mrs Danvers-raised clones, reveal the sensational character find of 1940, and answer the question of what Cat has in her desk.

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We continue our look at the 14th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief to the Best Picture winner for 1955, Marty.

We also discuss which characters might be ghosts, the looming perils of supermarkets and the one simple editing trick that would have vastly improved this film, before revealing the 13th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

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The 14th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is To Catch A Thief from 1955.

On our rewatch of To Catch A Thief, we interrogate the purpose of Chin Up Guy, speculate on the true source of the nickname 'The Cat' and ponder the fallacious reasoning of a false dichotomy.

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We continue our look at the 15th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Lifeboat to the Best Picture winner for 1944, Gaslight.

We also discuss titles that transcend their movie, the perfect MacGuffin and our collective desire to just keep watching Joseph Cotten, before revealing the 14th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

Note: A lot of people and websites claim that Going My Way won the Best Picture that year. This is wrong. Gaslight definitely won. Trust us.

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The 15th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Lifeboat from 1944.

On our rewatch of Lifeboat, we recycle jokes, learn how to fish with jewellery and rerank who should be in charge of the boat.

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We continue our look at the 16th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man to the Best Picture winner for 1956, Around The World In Eighty Days.

We also discuss the romantic allure of whist, hordes of celebrity cameos and a mysterious ongoing lack of tension, before revealing the 15th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

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The 16th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Wrong Man from 1956.

On our rewatch of The Wrong Man, we discuss hairbrush resistance tactics, being irritated by confirmation bias and Elvis Presley.

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We continue our look at the 17th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent to the Best Picture winner for 1938, You Can't Take It With You.

We also discuss the employment prospects of twitchy-eyed men, manic pixie dream geezers and wacky basement cults, before revealing the 16th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

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