50 years ago today (December 6, 1962), Hitchcock’s “The Hangover” aired for the first time. Adman Hadley Purvis (Tony Randall) facing a divorce, wakes up after a bender, with a girl named Marian (Jayne Mansfield) . Watch the whole episode. http://www.50yearsago.net/alfred-hitchcock…

I'll have to at least rent it to see how they present ol' Eddie Gein. (BTW, Gein seems to have only committed two murders, so it's a stretch to call him a serial killer. He was definitely a ghoul, though.)

Todd, you are correct about that. I've researched Ed Gein myself and drew the same conclusion.

There is a class at PSU about Hitchcock. All the bitch teacher wants to do is try and tear down the great artist. Using the movie Sabotage (1936) for one class, all she could say was how sexist he was for aiming the camera a bit, too, long on the actresses knees. She said, "oh, there is the little boy. He is cute and all, but it's still a sexist film."

What she totally didn't get, was that the little boy was abused as hell in all his scenes, and we the audience in class all laughed our asses off about it.

In another film Suspicion (1941), the teacher complained that the villain was a women who savagely stabbed somebody to death. Everybody in class couldn't blame the leading lady at all, because the guy she killed, really had it coming to him.

Hitchcock victimized women and children because they so vulnerable to big bad scary monsters. In the movie Rear Window (1954) Jimmy Stewart had his leg in a cast. Hitchcock did that so that Stewart would be more vulnerable, unable to run away from the killer.


Alfred Hitchcock interviewed by Tom Snyder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHDujSjOZk