Nate and The Fat Man
For no reason whatsoever, last week I informally decided that one of my 2009 resolutions would be to watch all of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. Well, in truth it wasn’t for no reason — it was because I started watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents through Netflix’s Watch Instantly. For genuinely no reason, I am going to keep track of that process on this blog.
But before embarking on the journey, I decided to take stock of what the big man’s filmography actually was. And it’s not short. Here is the list:
- The Pleasure Garden
- The Lodger
- Downhill
- The Ring
- Easy Virtue
- The Farmer’s Wife
- Champagne
- The Manxman
- Blackmail
- Juno and the Paycock
- Murder!
- Elstree Calling
- The Skin Game
- Mary
- Number Seventeen
- Rich and Strange
- Waltzes from Vienna
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- The 39 Steps
- Secret Agent
- Sabotage
- Young and Innocent
- The Lady Vanishes
- Jamaica Inn
- Rebecca
- Foreign Correspondent
- Mr & Mrs Smith
- Suspicion
- Saboteur
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Lifeboat
- Spellbound
- Notorious
- The Paradine Case
- Rope
- Under Capricorn
- Stage Fright
- Strangers on a Train
- I Confess
- Dial M for Murder
- Rear Window
- To Catch a Thief
- The Trouble with Harry
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (56)
- The Wrong Man
- Vertigo
- North by Northwest
- Pyscho
- The Birds
- Marnie
- Torn Curtain
- Topaz
- Frenzy
- Family Plot
Yikes. Just in case I run out of time — or motivation — I’ve marked the films I’ve already seen in italics (to the best of my current recollection), and will focus on the previously unseen ones to start with. If I make it through all of those, then I could tackle the repeats. And if I complete those, perhaps tackling every TV episode he directed (although he hosted every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he only directed a few of them). And if I complete those, then I guess I’ll just watch the three or four early movies that are long out of print and believed lost entirely. I’ll let you know if I manage to pull that off.
