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...infamous rumors circulating around Hitchcock. He apparently never left Madeleine Carroll and Robert Donat handcuffed together for a whole day while shooting The 39 Steps, nor his daughter Pat suspended on a ferris wheel in the dark for hours on the set of Strangers on a Train. It does appear however that he said, “Actors are cattle,” though he denies it, and that there was a great deal of tension between him and Tippi Hedren after filming The Birds and Marnie together...
Contributors’ reflections seem to be presented almost entirely unedited. When Chandler’s prose does appear, it is often only to insinuate her intimacy with the glitzy figures she is quoting. Chandler is a skilled reporter, but many comments appear that should never have made it onto the page at all. The fact that Hitchcock drew out each of his shots beforehand may be interesting the first time we hear it, but not the fifth. It adds nothing...
...result of Chandler’s sloppiness is that all the insights and compelling information that do appear seems to be sheer accident rather than the work of a skillful writer. The interviews, though entertaining, do not give a complete portrait of Hitchcock, and the evidence surrounding them is not adequately investigated. We are asked to simply take people’s word for it, without any conclusions reached...
Hart has been dumped by boyfriend/partner Agent Matthews (Benjamin Bratt) (who doesn’t even appear here) and instead has to put up with a version of her former self, irate agent Sam Fuller (Regina King). Instead of being preened by prissy Michael Caine, Hart has the assistance of the more overtly gay Joel (Diedrich Bader...
...socio-political subtext, but it’s dropped in such a half-hearted, haphazard manner that any commentary ultimately gets lost among all the flashy explosions. Sure, such lines as “No one pays attention to Africa” pop up now and then, but they appear jarring amidst gunfire battles and elaborate speed-boat chases...