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Film Comment (1979) - Hitchcock: a Defense and an Update

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Though the script calls for several elaborate visual setpieces in the tradition of Hitchcock's classic thrillers (including a bravura aerial tracking shot which is meticulously described over a page and a half in the screenplay, and a climactic train chase across the Russian border), Hitchcock's associates say it is not so much the visual mechanics which engage his fascination, but, as always, the interplay of suspicion and trust in the suspenseful love story.

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Responses to David Thomson's article "The Big Hitch".

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