by Steven DeRosa | Jul 30, 2010 | Blog Post
What is the trouble with The Trouble with Harry? Why does it remain among the least analyzed of Hitchcock’s 1950s films (probably beating out only Dial M for Murder and Stage Fright)? To date, few have seen fit to rank The Trouble with Harry as a key work in the...
by Steven DeRosa | Jul 17, 2010 | Blog Post
Discussion of the difference between plot and story in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Hitchcock and screenwriter Samuel Taylor were both aware of the gaping hole in the plot, and yet it’s the emotional story of the characters played by James Stewart and Kim...
by Steven DeRosa | Jul 3, 2010 | Blog Post
Alfred Hitchcock had few kind words to say about Stage Fright. But one can learn a great deal more from one of Hitchcock’s misfires than from many other filmmakers’ best works. In the case of Stage Fright, Hitchcock and his writers—which included his wife,...