The next presentation at Kevin's Friday Night Movies: 
Friday, August 18th, cartoon shorts to start promptly @ 8:00pm

Hitchcock's 100th birthday!

*** Special prize for whoever first spots the director's cameo! ***

We're doing something a little different this time.  I'll be showing one
of two classics from the Master of Suspense; the final determination
will be made that night by majority vote of all attendees!

*RSVP*!!!  Due to limited seating capacity, attendance may have to be
limited to the earliest respondents.

Hope to see you there.  I'll save you an aisle seat and a McGuffin!

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Choice A:

*** Strangers on a Train ***

"You do my murder, I do yours. For example, your wife, my father.
Criss-cross!"

(USA, 1951)  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Starring Farley Granger,
Robert Walker and Patricia Hitchcock (Alfred’s daughter).
Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, author of the Mr. Ripley
series!

DVD with alternate American and British versions.

Awards: Nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography

Memorable Quotes:
Bruno Anthony: Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you, Mr. Haines. It
might disturb Mother.

Barbara Morton: Oh, Daddy doesn't mind a little scandal. He's a senator.

Barbara Morton: I still think it would be wonderful to have a man love
you so much he'd kill for you.

Trivia:
The stunt where the man crawled under the carousel was not done with
trick photography. Hitchcock claimed that this was the most dangerous
stunt ever performed under his direction, and would never allow it to be
done again.


Choice B:

*** Rear Window ***

"See It! - If your nerves can stand it after PSYCHO!" --Tagline for 1962
re-release

(USA, 1954)  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  Starring Jimmy Stewart,
Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr and Thelma Ritter.
Taped from AMC's Hitchcock Marathon - recently restored and remastered
version!

Awards: Nominated for Oscar for Best Director, Best Cinematography and
Best Screenplay; Won Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture
#42 of AFI's Top 100 Greatest American Movies

Memorable Quotes:

Stella: We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is
get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's
that for a bit of homespun philosophy?
Jeff: Reader's Digest, April, 1939.
Stella: Well, I only quote from the best.

Stella: Let's go down there and find out what's burried in that garden.
Lisa: Why not? I've always wanted to meet Mrs. Thorwald.

Lisa Fremont: Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't
believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair
because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most
frightening ghouls I've ever known.

Trivia:

All of the sound in the film is diegetic--meaning that all the music,
speech, and other sounds all come from within the world of the film.

At the time the set was the largest indoor set built at Paramount
Studios.

During the month-long shoot, "Miss Torso" "lived" in her apartment all
day, relaxing between takes as if really at home.

The film was unavailable for decades because its rights (together with
four other pictures of the same period) were bought back by Hitchcock
and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. They've been known for
long as the infamous "5 lost Hitchcocks" amongst film buffs, and were
re-released in theatres around 1984 after a 30-year absence. The others
are The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Rope (1948), Trouble with Harry,
The (1955), and Vertigo (1958).