One of the interesting things in Rope is the speech at the end of the film. Its different from the play. Here is the ending of the play. The Ending on a quote from the play " - I got this from the website of DC Cairns (shadowplay website). Rupert: (suddenly letting himself go — a thing he has n...

Yes, Kim Novak was very angry about it.

Yes, I heard about The Artist incident.But they did it, because of the lack of time. When Herrmann was alive, he wanted his interpretation completely in the films he worked. He didn't like debasing his music, because it deeply weakens his interpretation. That's why he refused to change the music for...

Thanks, moirafinnie. Yes, one of the things Herrmann disliked the film was the film's ending. One of the first things that Herrmann said after watching the final cut of the film was you will have to change the ending. But they wouldn't listen. This was the case with Obsession. But the difference was...

Yes, he was very happy with the matching of the film and music in Obsession (1976). Outside of Herrmann, I loved Michel Legrand's haunting score for Summer of '42, Leighton Lucas (Eve Rhapsody), and some of Franz Waxman's works. But I don't think any composer stayed consistent like Bernard Herrmann....

Hello Everyone, I always thought that Bernard Herrmann was a composer who put his complete effort into the film. Many praises him today. But I feel that lots of composers don't put the effort as much as he did. Many people don't realize that several of his cues for some of his films ended up becomin...

ROPE (1948) SPOILERS Its possible that Rope (1948) was also based on an incident that happened in Alfred Hitchcock's life. There was an assassination scene in Hitchcock's film Foreign Correspondent (1940). It was the scene where the killer shot the man with the gun right next to the camera. Two year...

SPOILERS I am putting Edgar Allan Poe references in Marnie (1964) here. Alfred Hitchcock put Edgar Allan Poe references throughout this film. Marnie's last name is Edgar. In the novel, Marnie's last name is Elmer. Unlike the film, the novel takes place in England. Like Poe's characters, Marnie Edgar...

Thank you, Cinemaven. Like Hitchcock, I always liked Hitchcock's wife Alma's seriousness in the structure of the story. She was a brilliant critic. I also liked Bernard Herrmann, because he also works with writers with the story of the film. That's why he ended up arguing with Roald Dahl about the s...

SPOILERS Thanks, Cinemaven. We know that Uncle Charlie kills women. Aside from that, I used No.7 just to remind Uncle Charlie's relationship with women. Remember the female character Mrs. Potter in the bank scene. We see how she is attracted to Uncle Charlie. I consider Stage Fright as one of his be...

SPOILERS Thanks, Mr. Arkadin. I am posting new information about Shadow of A Doubt here. Alfred Hitchcock's middle name is Joseph. Like Hitchcock, we don't see "Joseph" Newton (Henry Travers) driving the car. We see Young Charlie driving the car. Unlike Hitchcock, Hitchcock's wife Alma lov...

SPOILERS Here are the vampire references in Shadow of A Doubt (1943). 1) When we are first introduced to Uncle Charlie, he is lying on his bed, arms folded across his chest, suggestive of a vampire lying in his coffin. 2) As the landlady lowers the blind and the light disappears from his face, Uncle...

SPOILERS I think Eve was crying, because Charlotte said that Jonathan killed her husband. Charlotte said that Jonathan wanted her name kept out of it. But Eve wouldn't believe it, because she believes Charlotte killed her husband. Not Jonathan. Although Eve doesn't love Jonathan anymore, still she w...

SPOILERS I don't know if anyone noticed this. O in Michael Wilding's Wilfred O. Smith. This is a reference to David O. Selznick. This O idea was used again in North by Northwest - Roger O. Thornhill I believe the inner intentions of Charlotte Inwood (Dietrich) were mentioned by Jonathan Cooper in th...

SPOILERS Thank you, Jack Favell. I will post about Shadow of A Doubt soon right after we finish talking about Stage Fright. You made some great points about Stage Fright. I didn't think about that part. I forgot to mention something. When Cooper gives visual idea of his flashback story to Eve and th...