Hitchcock books reviewed

[Rick Lanham]

The London Review of Books has a new column discussing some new books on Hitchcock.
It starts:

"Hitchcock liked assembly lines. In the long, consistently revealing interview he gave to François Truffaut in the summer of 1962, he described a scene he had thought of including in North by Northwest (1959), but didn’t. Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is on his way from New York to Chicago. Why not have him stop off at Detroit, then still in its Motor City heyday?

I wanted to have a long dialogue scene between Cary Grant and one of the factory workers as they walk along the assembly line. They might, for instance, be talking about one of the foremen. Behind them a car is being assembled, piece by piece. Finally, the car they’ve seen being put together from a simple nut and bolt is complete, with gas and oil, and all ready to drive off the line. The two men look at it and say, ‘Isn’t it wonderful!’ Then they open the door to the car and out drops a corpse!"

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n11/david-trot ... us-at-4-am" target="_blank

Rick

[SilentsPlease]

Has anyone got the Hitchcock coffee table book "Hitchcock Piece by Piece" by Laurent Bouzereau, published in 2010? Bouzereau is known for being the maker of many retrospective featurettes we see on classic films DVDs. This book's notable feature is the many large pouches within the pages of the book that contain scrapbook-type items such as memos, family photos, storyboards, etc. My local library actually carries this and I flipped through it. and I became interested in owning a copy. For those who are also interested, here is a look-see.