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Monday, January 16, 2023
MAD GOES TO AN ALFRED HATCHPLOT MOVIE
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956) SABOTEUR (1942) THE WRONG MAN (1956)
dir: Alfred Hitchcock
MAD GOES TO AN ALFRED HATCHPLOT MOVIE
MAD #53, March 1960
w: Larry Siegel
a: Wallace Wood
Though this is an amalgam of many of his films, it takes off primarily on North by Northwest, which was then Hitchcock's most recent film. North by Northwest had a plot of someone mistaken for a spy and kidnapped, though Cary Grant was the lead and not James Stewart as portrayed here. Stewart was the male lead in many of Hitchcock's movies that decade.
Alfred Hitchcock is drawn here in every panel because he always made a cameo in his films an an extra. NXNW had a scene where Grant was chased and shot at by a cropduster. The Statue of Liberty is from Saboteur.
In North by Northwest, there were scenes where Cary Grant was running away from secret agents on a train and met Eva Marie Saint, and she turned out to be a spy. There's also a climax in that movie with a chase scene at the top of Mount Rushmore. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, an anthology TV show he hosted (but did not direct) began with a shadow of him walking into a silhouette.
“Goot eev-ning” was also Hitchock's signature phrase when he introduced the story on his show in his deep British accent.
The short henchman at the beginning is Peter Lorre. I'm assuming the fat one is Sidney Greenstreet, since they appeared together so often in movies, though Greenstreet was never in a Hitchcock picture.
I can't tell if the wife is meant to be anyone in particular. She has such idealized Barbie doll features that I'd guess not.
The short henchman at the beginning is Peter Lorre. I'm assuming the fat one is Sidney Greenstreet, since they appeared together so often in movies, though Greenstreet was never in a Hitchcock picture.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell if the wife is meant to be anyone in particular. She has such idealized Barbie doll features that I'd guess not.
She's also a brunette, almost never a Hitchcock motif.
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