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 The Alfred Hitchcock Story (New Edition) $35.00 ...more appropriately, this book should have been called "Ken Mogg Uses the Films of Alfred Hitchcock to Show Off His Erudition." Here's a very representative example from the section about "Vertigo": Camille Paglia has a brilliant comment on "Faust", about what happens when Faust tries to materialize the spirit of his lost Helen, and it seems to apply to "Vertigo". Paglia notes that Faust retains a repressed feminine side. Accordingly, when he journeys to the supernatural realm of "the Mothers", they frustrate his attempts. In Paglia's words, "The male struggles through his sexual stages, returning to the mother even when he thinks himself most free of her." And "Vertigo's" nun, or mother-superior, is the Great Mother who has the final say yet again. If THAT'S the kind of stuff you want to read "about" Hitchcock and his movies, you're in luck, because this book is full of it. If, on the other hand, you'd like to know why Janet Leigh had to spend a week soaking wet in order to get the famous "shower scene" in "Psycho, well, I'm afraid you're out of luck. The book is beautifully designed with lots of pix, and there are interesting digressions dealing with things like Hitchcock's TV series, but otherwise, there is way too much socio-psychological analysis of the scripts/characters and not near enough about what Hitchcock was doing when he was making these films.  The Ten Commandments $9.99 I brought this disc from you which is a copy of a copy that cuts off in the middle of the picture. In order for me to finish seeing it, I have to pause and fast-forward the section. I am very disappointed with this product. I wrote you to see if you could do something about it. I never heard from you. Very poor customer service.  Henry Fonda - The Signature Collection (Advise and Consent / Battle of the Bulge / Mister Roberts / The Wrong Man) $39.98 Mister Roberts was the best of the four movies. The other three movies weren't very good. Henry Fonda made much better movies than the three other movies in this "Signature Collection" Buying used might be worth the money. Paying full price is not. J.D. from Missouri |
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