Alfred Hitchcock Profile – Episode #12 (October 28th, 2014)

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🗓️ 28 October 2014

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Popcorn Talk Network proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. In today's episode it's all about Alfred Hitchcock! Just in time for Halloween, PROFILES celebrates the brilliant career of “The Master Of Suspense” – Alfred Hitchcock. Malone and Mantz are joined by THREE (yes three) iconic Hitchcock blondes who share their memories of working with Hitch – Tippi Hedren (“The Birds”), Eva Marie Saint (“North By Northwest”) and Kim Novak (“Vertigo”) #FilmGeek Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and Eileen Hitchcock (born 1892). R Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the Shmoh's no network studios in Los Angeles, California, it's time for profiles with your host, Alicia Malone, and Scott Mance.
0:21.6	Hello, Schmovell, or should we say, good evening.
0:27.6	Welcome to episode 12 of profiles, and boy, what a show today. Now, every week, Alicia and I, we always come and say, today we're going to talk about
0:38.0	one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. But today, we are really talking about the greatest,
0:43.2	the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Yeah, he is the first director I ever knew the name
0:50.2	of. I feel like I grew up watching Hitchcock movies. He has some great trademarks in all
0:55.9	his films, which I love, like the Innocent Man on the Run, the Icy Blonde by his side,
1:01.2	his camera shots always quite voyeuristic, great humor in there as well as murder and intrigue.
1:08.5	Murder. And then the MacGuffin, which we'll be talking a lot about as we get into his movies.
1:13.6	Well, the master of suspense, they don't call the master of suspense for nothing.
1:17.4	The buildup is the key to suspense.
1:20.2	And when you look at his very best movies like we are going to do right now, you see that it is all about the buildup.
1:27.6	It is.
1:28.0	Because you really get to know the characters.
1:31.1	You really get to know the story.
1:33.2	And then in his very best films, he pulls the rug out from under you.
1:36.8	Twist it.
1:37.6	Twist it around.
1:38.9	Makes you totally question what you just saw.
1:41.8	You have no idea where it's going.
1:43.7	And they are just masterpiece after masterpiece, particularly in the late 50s.
1:48.4	And his style is so distinct, so very much his own, that the term Hitchcockian.
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