HitchPod - A Podcast About Alfred Hitchcock Movies

We continue our look at the 14th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief to the Best Picture winner for 1955, Marty.

We also discuss which characters might be ghosts, the looming perils of supermarkets and the one simple editing trick that would have vastly improved this film, before revealing the 13th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 14th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is To Catch A Thief from 1955.

On our rewatch of To Catch A Thief, we interrogate the purpose of Chin Up Guy, speculate on the true source of the nickname 'The Cat' and ponder the fallacious reasoning of a false dichotomy.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

We continue our look at the 15th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Lifeboat to the Best Picture winner for 1944, Gaslight.

We also discuss titles that transcend their movie, the perfect MacGuffin and our collective desire to just keep watching Joseph Cotten, before revealing the 14th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

Note: A lot of people and websites claim that Going My Way won the Best Picture that year. This is wrong. Gaslight definitely won. Trust us.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 15th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Lifeboat from 1944.

On our rewatch of Lifeboat, we recycle jokes, learn how to fish with jewellery and rerank who should be in charge of the boat.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

We continue our look at the 16th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man to the Best Picture winner for 1956, Around The World In Eighty Days.

We also discuss the romantic allure of whist, hordes of celebrity cameos and a mysterious ongoing lack of tension, before revealing the 15th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 16th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is The Wrong Man from 1956.

On our rewatch of The Wrong Man, we discuss hairbrush resistance tactics, being irritated by confirmation bias and Elvis Presley.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

We continue our look at the 17th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent to the Best Picture winner for 1938, You Can't Take It With You.

We also discuss the employment prospects of twitchy-eyed men, manic pixie dream geezers and wacky basement cults, before revealing the 16th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for just $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.

The 17th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners is Young and Innocent from 1937.

On our rewatch of Young and Innocent, we delve deeply into resuscitation techniques, the subversion of John Smith and the most frightening scene Hitchcock ever filmed (take that, Psycho!).

If you want more Hitchcock content, please consider becoming a HitchPod supporter. Just go to patreon.com/HitchPod and for as little as $2/month get access to our Season 1 coverage of every single Hitchcock movie, as well as bonus episodes on Hitchcockesque movies, invitations to live rewatches and much, much more.