The best 5 Hitchcock

Rating: 9/10 (1 September 2012)

If Vertigo is unanimously number one, North by Northwest ranks in the top 5, square with Rear Window,Psycho and Notorious in Hitchcock filmography.Why Vertigo? Because of the ingenious cinematographic technicalities of Robert Burks and the music score conducted by Bernard Hermann. Because of the novel D'entre les morts by Boileau et Narcejac. Needless to mention the Technicolor of red and gray of interiors and green and gold of giant sequoias. Kim Novak metamorphosis from a genuine brunette to a Hitchcock's placid blonde is disturbing to Stewart as well to spectators. The elegant silhouette of James Stewart marks all angles, plans and semi plans of Burks. The mysterious and unexpected thrilling drama crescendo contributes to the priority rank of this motion picture. North by Northwest cinematographer is also Robert Burks. Bernard Hermann is the music conductor . Cary Grant tall and elegant silhouette dominates angles and plans of action and exteriors. Eva Marie Saint is a Hitchcock's placid blonde . The theme is one of Alfred's favorite when an ordinary man is wrongly driven in an extraordinary situation ( as in The Wrong Man ,Rear Window,The Birds) is one of Alfred favorite's when an ordinary man is wrongly driven into an extra ordinary situation( as in The Wrong Man, Rear Window, The Birds).