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Can any fan say what the title of a old, maybe even silent-era might be? I saw it on TV years ago and it chiefly impressed due to some marvellous shots of Dutch windmills, still in full use at the time and lots of them. Another scene showed a man getting on a bus with a reel of film and this may pre-date the banning of the practice duie to fire risk, in the celluloid-stock period.
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I used to work *in film's Sire - Heritage Films in Beak St. W.1 owned by Peter Walker of Peter Walker film productions, you could have crossed paths with him at sometime?
*As the dispatch clerk :)
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Excellent, thank you. I don't know how I managed without this site, especially when I have probably mixed two sequences. The film-on-bus sequence probably comes from the pre-war Hitchcock, Sabotage.
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Hitchcock was the master of suspence.His voice when the film started frightened me as a child.>:)
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>> His voice when the film started frightened me as a child.>:)
That was television Dutchman, a one-hour drama series called Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He did do this sinister-voiced intro for it.
He was real Hollywood, a shameless faker. One of his favourite words was 'cheesy'. He'd forgive you anything if you were cheesy enough. But boy did he have high standards where cheesiness was concerned...
While acknowledging Hitchcock's genius as a director - the word is not too strong - I am not enamoured, as most modern cinéphiles are, of this cheesiness and faking, back projection going sideways, actor sawing randomly at steering wheel, tyre squeal pasted on by moronic sound man who isn't looking at the image such as it is...
'Armel Coussine's Hollywood Sh!t Lists' (10 most rubbish car chases; 10 most rubbish actors gazing heavenward; 10 most swattable child stars; etc... the list of such lists is endless. Not everyone has my taste though especially in the world of cinéphilia).
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Thanks for the explanation A.C. I still have to google some of the words you use.>:)
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Old Hitchcock film - Dog
