Today is Alfred Hitchcock's birthday. He would have 108 (born 1899) if he were still alive. Of course he is, in his movies which are timeless. A quick tribute from Cinema Styles covering the favorites, least favorites, ups, downs and everything in between.
Favorite Hitchcock Film: Notorious (1946)
Favorite Pre-Hollywood Hitchcock Film: The 39 Steps (1935)
Favorite Performance in a Hitchcock Film: Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt (1944)
Favorite Tandem Performance (that is, two actors playing off each other beautifully): Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
Least Favorite Hitchcock Film: Topaz (1969)
Least Favorite Performance: John Gavin in Psycho (1960) Damn near stops the movie. Hitch referred to him on the set as "the corpse."
Most Exciting Hitchcock Film: (Tie) Foreign Correspondent (1940) and North by Northwest (1959)
Most Self-Referential (or autobiographical) Hitchcock Film: Vertigo (1958), of course.
Goofiest Hitchcock Film: (tie) Spellbound (1945) and Family Plot (1976)
Scariest Hitchcock Film: Psycho (1960)
Best use of Monuments in a Hitchcock Film: (Tie) Saboteur (1942) Statue of Liberty and North by Northwest (1959) Mount Rushmore
Best Use of Location in a Hitchcock Film: Vertigo (1958) San Francisco
Best Chase in a Hitchcock Film: Cary Grant pursued by crop duster in North by Northwest 
(1959)
(1959)First True "Hitchcockian" Film: Blackmail (1929)
Most "un-Hitchcockian" Film: (tie) The Farmer's Wife (1928) and Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
Best Hitchcock Comedy: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Favorite Hitchcock Cameo: Walking with his dogs in The Birds (1963)
Most Clever Hitchcock Cameo: Seated at the table in the photograph in Dial M for Murder (1954)
Best "Children in Peril" scene in a Hitchcock Film: (tie) Strangers on a Train (1951) Merry-go-round sequence and The Birds (1963) Attack on the school scene.
Most Underrated Hitchcock Film: The Lady Vanishes (1938)
First Hitchcock Hollywood Film: Rebecca (1940)
First Hollywood-Altered Hitchcock Ending: Suspicion (1941) They just didn't want Cary to be a killer.
Best Un-Resolved "Ending" to a Hitchcock Film: The Birds (1963)
Most Clever Experiment in a Hitchcock Film: The "one-take, unbroken shot" of Rope (1948)
Best MacGuffin in a Hitchcock Film: The lighter in Strangers on a Train (1951)
Only 3-D Hitchcock Film: Dial M for Murder (1954)
Best Jimmy Stewart Hitchcock Film: Rear Window (1954)
Most Used Actor by Hitchcock: Leo Carroll in six films. I'm not counting Hitch and his multiple cameos.
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