The Girl (Hitchcock films)

Hitchcock has always given me the heebie-jeebies and thought him a distasteful predator of women. Many of his films were vehicles to debase young women.
What little tv I do watch, this wouldn't be on my viewing list.

Just found this ... www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/9753977/Tippi-Hedren-interview-Hitchcock-put-me-in-a-mental-prison.html says it all. I must stop now, am getting hopping mad thinking about what an awful megalomaniacal type of person he was.

I completely missed the remake of Rebecca on telly. The Girl is a fascinating study of the psychological and social mores of those times. Hitchcock (no oil painting of course) saying to his secretary "You'll never understand, you look like the back of a bus" when she comments on his obsession with Tippi Hedren ("the girl"). And when he is beastly, the women just weep into their typewriters/the dishes/their hankies - nowadays he'd get short shrift.

I missed 'The Girl' but will find it in the next few days. Sounds interesting.

Rebecca was remade about 15 years ago, and shown again on TV earlier this year, in two parts. I believe Dreamworks film company is doing another remake now. Such a great story.