perhaps the greatest Hitchcock movie ever

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2001)

Having just received the DVD for my birthday, I have spent many hours watching this classic movie. Listening to the "making of" documentary and the commentary by Ernest Lehman dubbed over the movie it is hard to believe that this film was largely forgotten because of the new wave of action movies ie Mr Connery and friends. Even though nearly every secret is revealed on the DVD, this only helps to enhance the impact of every scene and visual. Incredibly, Ernest Lehman did not know how to end the movie at Mount Rushmore until he came up with the idea that Eve shots Roger in the dining room area. Cherish every scene and every line of dialogue as Cary Grant delivers some very funny lines at the expense of the bad guys. By the way, it's true, Martin Landau was a very strange looking guy at the time and an absolute perfect piece of casting in the role of the sinister and some would say homosexual Leonard. The very last "train zooming into a tunnel" scene may be a little corny, but you've probably had enough suspense (in the cornfield?) thanks to Hitch and Bernard Hermann's rousing score (that tune just gets to you after a while).Sit back and enjoy the master at work.