Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #15)
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English - February 05, 2024 11:00 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsFilm Reviews TV & Film Arts afi screenwriting afistop100 afitop100 americanfilminstitute creative creativity film filmschool storygrid Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Cutting to the chase here: this miiight be Hitchcock's first truly terrible film. It's a bit baffling how clumsy it is given how many films he's made before this, several of them decent, and perhaps one or two of them even good. But this one...it's so convoluted, so full of cliche, non sequitur, reveal, and reverse uno after reverse uno that it ends up completely nonsensical. This week, we dive into Hitchcock's (first?) tire fire of a film?