I heard that he received a lot of complaints about Psycho and one guy wrote him and said his daughter refused to take a shower after watching it. His response: Run her through the car wash. I love Hitchcock!!!
Heidi Clark I like the one where the daughter was already afraid of the tub because of another film, and psycho made her afraid of the shower...so Hitchcock told him to bring her to the dry cleaners lol!
I'm not old enough to have seen "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" when it originally aired but I saw it on the early years of Nick at Nite. Since then I've always thought of him as the 20th century's answer to Edgar Allen Poe.
I'm not enough either but when I was little, I'd change the channel on Nick at Nite as soon as they played that music followed by his profile showing up on the screen. I love it now and my favorite is Into Thin Air starring his real life daughter who also had a role in Psycho. I love it how he mentions how well he thought the leading lady did without mentioning her relationship to him at the end of the episode. That was really sweet❤
What I always found amazing about Hitchcock is that he would pretty much shoot the entire film in his head first before he got around to actually committing anything to film. Apparently there was very little for the editor to do at the end of the shoot. As for favourite movies, I'd choose 39 steps, The Lady Vanishes and The Man Who Knew Too Much from his British period and Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, North by Nortwest, and Psycho from his Hollywood movies.
@@matchbox2482 Kubrick was a great director but sounded like a jerk. I'd say David Lynch should be mentioned for his originality despite how strange it was.
Hitchcock's humor really made him stick out more than any other film-maker THEN and even NOW, because humor can bring out more than one emotion and Hitch was able to "pun" his way into many different levels and layers that not many film-makers could, or can, which speaks volumes for the kind of man he was. Greatness.
Alfred Hitchcock is an icon. A legend for all time. I always thought he would have made a great comedian too, since he has that deadpan look, which would crack people up. He had so many talents.
How he never won an Oscar is truly sad to me. Nominated 5 times. "Rebecca" (which was nominated for 11 Oscars) actually won for best picture in 1940 yet, though nominated for best director, Hitch didn't win. It's the only film since then to win best picture without having the director, any actor, or the writers win, too.
I think it shows great generosity of spirit, and an impish sense of fun, that Hitchock demonstrates here that he doesn't take himself too seriously. How easy it might have been to just sit back, play up an auteur's mystique, and watch the billions roll in (cough - Andy W...). A true genius, but with a common touch.
We laugh about the comment on his mother, but Hitchcock might have had some very serious mommy issues. His work reflects that- his doting on fear and attributing the pain of fear to all mother figures reflects that, too.
+Janna Watson well, yes, but i think he means that hitchcock's films often depict a male character who is - in some way - antagonized by his mother (north by northwest, psycho, notorious, the birds). it's a theme that is recurrent throughout his work.
Hitch!!! You gotta love those lugubrious tones in their description of fear and suspicion and of course he was the master of re creating these emotions on film. With the limitations of what they could actually show back then throughout Hitch's career as a director its amazing, not just that his methods were effective, but that they still are and indeed films in the genre of vertigo and North by Northwest are classics that are still masterpieces. There was no one like Hitch!
yeah, I hear it. I used to have a recording of alfred that was something like "If I could escape from this picture tube, I would." A random thing I recorded off his tv show. I used it to start up my Mac with.
Here’s a fun little fact, which, I feel, wonderfully encompasses his level of genius. The 9-stroke drawing of his silhouette was created by, him. He liked to draw, and just doodled it on paper. It’s so simple, and became his unmistakable trademark. How brilliant.
You know, I feel special. I'm only 13 years old, and yet I love classic films. I'm probably the only kid at my school that's even seen a Hitchcock film. I've seen Physco, The Birds, The Man Who Knew to Much, and The Number 17. I wish I could watch more like "North By North West" but classics are so hard to find nowadays. Well, at least we can watch this interview. Thanks for posting this.
One of the great showmen in the business besides his amazing understanding and mastery of the art of film. With his television show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became the most well-known director of the time. This was way before directors became celebrities in their own right. The line sketch of his face that was used on the TV show was a self portrait.
My fear of mice came from my mother, she used to over exaggerate her fear of them so as a child I thought they were something to be afraid of. Their very presence still makes me nervous but the fear is still there.
It great to see this cinema legend giving a interview. He was truly before his time, and still is. He was genuius in all aspects of movie making. Note: If any of you want to see some of his great work go to (Hulu) Alferd Hitchcock Hour.
I love his movies. We watched Psycho in an English class last year and I absolutely adored it. What a great film, just the way he could tell a story was just outstanding.
Richard Alva Cavett (/ˈkævɪt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.
Mr. Cavett, thank you for these wonderful, in depth interviews that allow the personalities of the lumiaries shine as they should. So many people watch these shows and lament the lack of great stars today, but what I really think they should lament is the unique interview form that you used in order to engage these people in real and unguarded conversation. To me, it is far more insightful that, to use an example after you and still in the past, a Barbara Walters interview.
1:05 I think the Mike Douglas Show also had some goofy cartoon daisy-like flower in its logo; it must have been a side-effect of the hippy-flower-power trend of those years.
More than anything, Hitch had an astonishingly fresh sense of humor. PSYCHO was an intentionally tongue-in-cheek shocker...most audiences realize that only after multiple viewings. THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!
Does anybody know; the famous silhouette of Hitchcock at 1:40, where we can clearly make out that it's him because of his body shape and his build ... was this an established motif back when this aired on TV? And if it was indeed already established, where did the silhouette motif come from originally?
It was an established motif, the start of every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents would feature Hitchcock walking into the frame in silhouette with the same music playing that is in this video. Hope this helped!
When my son was about 4-8 months old, he looked like Hitchcock. I wish I had seen this prior to his birth, so I could have said "boo" to him at 3 months old.
YES, it did, I remember as a 14 yo. I watched it with a friend. When the man started walking up the stairs my mom said to me and chris (the friend) here it comes and yet we both literally jumped out of our seats in fear. I truly think that music had a lot to do with it. A true masterpiece.
alfred hitchcock knew what intrigued people, he knew what they wanted to see. he knew how to keep you, not waiting, but wanting to see what would happen next. that is why he's the greatest director ever if you ask me.
Alfred Hitchcock would of loved my mother Rose as everyone else who knew her did! My brother Michael loved Hitchcock's movies, especially Psycho among others.
If there are such things as autobiographical origins and influences for artists, and of course there are, I would love to know what happened to Hitchcock in his early years to cause his evident obsession - a repetitive theme in his films - with wrongly accusing an innocent man. It all gets resolved in the end, but meanwhile the poor bastard gets hounded, persecuted, and pursued, and must ultimately prove his own innocence.
Alfred Hithcock movies are so much better than the shitty Hollywood movies today which are only scary because they add so many special effects.His stuff was scary because of the suspense and he knew how to fuck with peoples minds.
@provenelk The only "modern technique" that Hitchcock didn't use was CGI. What would be more interesting is to see him with modern equipment. Remember, the steadicam didn't even EXIST until around 1976 (which just so happens to be when he made his last movie)
As a kid my family and I went to the theatre and saw Psycho. I was traumatized for a long time after seeing that. Truly I wish my parents hadn't taken me to see that movie.
3:50 This would be more likely to happen in the lady's room at Target than in an old house today. Anyway, I think most mothers keep a few tricks at hand to scare their kids into submission. Mine used to shift the car into low gear and make the engine scream when we acted up so we'd think she was diving like a maniac. I had a neighbor years ago who used to threaten to send her son back to India, alone, unless he did as he was told. What ever you think about that sort of thing, it works for a while.
My main source from this book was that she personally knew Mr. Hitchcock for many years, and his family story was told to her through his other film friends and family.
I never thought I'd hear a worse impersonator of directors than Bogdanovich, but there you go. Thank you Mr. Cavett for teaching me something else new.
They don't make talk shows like Dick Cavet, Johnny Carson, etc any more, All you get is hate about Trump and political bs any more and not good guests or information. I wish we would go back to when tonight shows and talk shows really gave us good comedy and information.
According to biographers, Sir Alfred Hitchcock had a troubled relationship with his own domineering mother, who, like Mrs. Bates, forced him to stand at the foot of her bed and tell her everything that had happened to him, although the real relationship was not as disturbed as that seen in the movie.
Hitch speaks of it in one of the interviews on BBC TV...I can't remember which. His use of the uber-Gothic qualities of lighting and set (not to mention his choice of black and white stock in the age of color) were a wink-and-nod to the shockers of the '20s and '30s. My FAVORITE Hicthcock visual "pun" is the very final scene in North by Northwest, where the train enters the tunnel at exactly the same moment Cary Grant, ummm, enters the arms of Eva Marie Saint. Unalloyed Freud!!
Having read all of the comments I can see no one understands the filmmaking peocess. Of course marty had to bring his head back abit so that the editor could cut the scene right. For your information the shower scene Tony perkins was not even at the studio that day,but,in nyc prepping for a play he was going to do after the film Wrapped.
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It wasn't horror that made Hitchcock's films intriguing, it was suspense. He created the most out of unconventional circumstances.
Suspense....🤔
I heard that he received a lot of complaints about Psycho and one guy wrote him and said his daughter refused to take a shower after watching it. His response: Run her through the car wash. I love Hitchcock!!!
Heidi Clark I like the one where the daughter was already afraid of the tub because of another film, and psycho made her afraid of the shower...so Hitchcock told him to bring her to the dry cleaners lol!
@@evandetwiler2810 That's what he actually said 👏👏👏
Dry cleaners!!!
@@matthewsamson4936 Correct it was dry cleaners.
Unsavoury film glorifying murder
To make a buck!
I'm not old enough to have seen "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" when it originally aired but I saw it on the early years of Nick at Nite. Since then I've always thought of him as the 20th century's answer to Edgar Allen Poe.
I'm not enough either but when I was little, I'd change the channel on Nick at Nite as soon as they played that music followed by his profile showing up on the screen. I love it now and my favorite is Into Thin Air starring his real life daughter who also had a role in Psycho. I love it how he mentions how well he thought the leading lady did without mentioning her relationship to him at the end of the episode. That was really sweet❤
I am. We hadn’t seen anything like it before that. It scared the pants off me
I could listen to him talk all day
me too! great deadpan with a fancy yet working class accent.
genius mchaggis You should read too, (if you haven't yet) is Charlotte Chandler's bio on him called "Its Only a Movie."
sounds good janna! ill check it out.
hi jenna. 2 years later! ive found that book..have it on hold at my library...ill get back once ive read it!
genius mchaggis so, what was the upshot? The film is better than the book!
Hitchcock had a good sense of humor
Definitely.
Humour 😁
The disturbed often do
Yes, v witty with a dry sense of humor
Humour
Hitchcock's just like
"Here, let me stand here with no emotion or movement and manage to be the most fascinating geniuses in cinematic history"
What I always found amazing about Hitchcock is that he would pretty much shoot the entire film in his head first before he got around to actually committing anything to film. Apparently there was very little for the editor to do at the end of the shoot. As for favourite movies, I'd choose 39 steps, The Lady Vanishes and The Man Who Knew Too Much from his British period and Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, North by Nortwest, and Psycho from his Hollywood movies.
The most influential director in cinema history
Kubrick??
Match Box both Kubrick and Alfred were masters in their field and both contributed to cinema but in different ways each
Kurosawa or tarkovsky or fellini ??
@@matchbox2482 Kubrick was a great director but sounded like a jerk. I'd say David Lynch should be mentioned for his originality despite how strange it was.
DW Grittith
Hitchcock's humor really made him stick out more than any other film-maker THEN and even NOW, because humor can bring out more than one emotion and Hitch was able to "pun" his way into many different levels and layers that not many film-makers could, or can, which speaks volumes for the kind of man he was.
Greatness.
I love Hitchcock, what a genius.
He was born in the same place I was, Leytonstone
@@tyrozone5 damn, that's awesome
Alfred Hitchcock is an icon. A legend for all time.
I always thought he would have made a great comedian too, since he has that deadpan look, which would crack people up. He had so many talents.
How he never won an Oscar is truly sad to me. Nominated 5 times.
"Rebecca" (which was nominated for 11 Oscars) actually won for best picture in 1940 yet, though nominated for best director, Hitch didn't win.
It's the only film since then to win best picture without having the director, any actor, or the writers win, too.
The intro to the program was PRICELESS!
Great job!
Hitch: (returning from stabbing clip with knife) "Mr. Cavett is indisposed....."
Hilarious!
He was the most influential director in cinema history
The intro is really creative and thrilling.... like a good Hitchcock scene.
Absolutely golden on both accounts. We need more entertainers such as these today.
I think it shows great generosity of spirit, and an impish sense of fun, that Hitchock demonstrates here that he doesn't take himself too seriously. How easy it might have been to just sit back, play up an auteur's mystique, and watch the billions roll in (cough - Andy W...). A true genius, but with a common touch.
As a kid, I loved watching his show on A&E....every time he came on screen, I'd always say "Good evening" in sync with him, haha. A brilliant man.
morbius109 that's so sweet ♡
yes, I was booed at by my mother ; she's dead now.
We laugh about the comment on his mother, but Hitchcock might have had some very serious mommy issues. His work reflects that- his doting on fear and attributing the pain of fear to all mother figures reflects that, too.
Not exactly. For instance " Psycho" was based in part of Ed Gein.
+Janna Watson very true
ooooh Oedipus complex. very freudian
lol
+Janna Watson well, yes, but i think he means that hitchcock's films often depict a male character who is - in some way - antagonized by his mother (north by northwest, psycho, notorious, the birds). it's a theme that is recurrent throughout his work.
Hitch!!! You gotta love those lugubrious tones in their description of fear and suspicion and of course he was the master of re creating these emotions on film. With the limitations of what they could actually show back then throughout Hitch's career as a director its amazing, not just that his methods were effective, but that they still are and indeed films in the genre of vertigo and North by Northwest are classics that are still masterpieces. There was no one like Hitch!
I was ten years old when this first aired,...trippy.
I remember when my mother was living we use to sit and watch all of Hitchcock films
yeah, I hear it. I used to have a recording of alfred that was something like "If I could escape from this picture tube, I would." A random thing I recorded off his tv show. I used it to start up my Mac with.
6:21 Dick Cavett casually opens a momentary rift in spacetime.
Here’s a fun little fact, which, I feel, wonderfully encompasses his level of genius. The 9-stroke drawing of his silhouette was created by, him. He liked to draw, and just doodled it on paper. It’s so simple, and became his unmistakable trademark. How brilliant.
oh damn, this ended way too soon. Oh well.
Taped on my birthday and graduation year... Grew up on Hitchcock...much respect.
You know, I feel special. I'm only 13 years old, and yet I love classic films. I'm probably the only kid at my school that's even seen a Hitchcock film. I've seen Physco, The Birds, The Man Who Knew to Much, and The Number 17. I wish I could watch more like "North By North West" but classics are so hard to find nowadays. Well, at least we can watch this interview. Thanks for posting this.
And now that you are 26 years old, which Hitchcock movie is your favorite?
One of the great showmen in the business besides his amazing understanding and mastery of the art of film.
With his television show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became the most well-known director of the time. This was way before directors became celebrities in their own right. The line sketch of his face that was used on the TV show was a self portrait.
I can totally visualize baby Hitchcock and that "boo" story. In fact I visualize him as a mini-sized version of how he looked here
BEST DOUBLE CHIN IN THE BUSINESS !
My fear of mice came from my mother, she used to over exaggerate her fear of them so as a child I thought they were something to be afraid of. Their very presence still makes me nervous but the fear is still there.
It great to see this cinema legend giving a interview. He was truly before his time, and still is. He was genuius in all aspects of movie making.
Note: If any of you want to see some of his great work go to (Hulu) Alferd Hitchcock Hour.
I love his movies. We watched Psycho in an English class last year and I absolutely adored it. What a great film, just the way he could tell a story was just outstanding.
I love his sense of timing and deadpan humour. Genius.
I was six days old when this originally aired.
Hitchcock's daughter,Pat, was in many of his movies and was a very good actress too. She just passed away in her 90s last year, I believe.
Hitchcock: Good humour
I'm reading Truffaut's book on HItchcock. Fascinating.
Lynn Turman
Krishnakumari M P what?
I counted the applause, 23 seconds! From 4:18 to 4:41. That's pretty good.
He was the most influential director in cinema history
Great interview, thanks!
Great opening too.
Mr.Cavatt must feel very privilaged having so many great people on his show!!
Man, thank you for taking the time to upload these vids. Mucho Gracias!
Richard Alva Cavett (/ˈkævɪt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.
I knew a guy who was killed by a lawnmower. It was a riding mower, he fell forward over the front of it and it ran him over.
Aww, poor man.
i think Alfred showed up in the back ground in all of his movies
I love to listen to Capote and Hitchcock and these creative people.
Hitchcock never needed words to show his brilliance.
i couldn't have said it any better. you are so right; i watched this one twice: it's so loaded with subtext and nuance.
Mr. Cavett, thank you for these wonderful, in depth interviews that allow the personalities of the lumiaries shine as they should. So many people watch these shows and lament the lack of great stars today, but what I really think they should lament is the unique interview form that you used in order to engage these people in real and unguarded conversation. To me, it is far more insightful that, to use an example after you and still in the past, a Barbara Walters interview.
''....somebody wants to be ripped....'' lol
I miss these old times. This man reminds me of the quality of everything we once had
1:05 I think the Mike Douglas Show also had some goofy cartoon daisy-like flower in its logo; it must have been a side-effect of the hippy-flower-power trend of those years.
Yeah, there's a video on youtube of Moe Howard on the Mike Douglas Show, and well the logo is there, the show is pretty funny though with Moe.
My fave talk show host
out of all his films the birds scared me the most when i was a kid, so many creepy scenes in that film that i never forgot
LMAO I have no idea why Hitchcock's deadpan makes me laugh so much.
More than anything, Hitch had an astonishingly fresh sense of humor. PSYCHO was an intentionally tongue-in-cheek shocker...most audiences realize that only after multiple viewings. THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!
I wish they still had talk shows like these.
after he says good evening, he looks like a cheeky little fellow
Does anybody know; the famous silhouette of Hitchcock at 1:40, where we can clearly make out that it's him because of his body shape and his build ... was this an established motif back when this aired on TV? And if it was indeed already established, where did the silhouette motif come from originally?
It was an established motif, the start of every episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents would feature Hitchcock walking into the frame in silhouette with the same music playing that is in this video. Hope this helped!
Thanks for the info.
being as it may, he's still a unique person with a significant particular appeareance
"The Lodger" was a great movie.
Hitchcock was a genius with his film tricks.
Great Video!
Thank You
I don't watch much television, especially now days seeing how far Hollywood and mainstream television has been selling out.
Lucio Fulci and Alfred Hitchcock are the grand-daddy master-pieces of cinema!
When my son was about 4-8 months old, he looked like Hitchcock. I wish I had seen this prior to his birth, so I could have said "boo" to him at 3 months old.
Brilliant! What great time in the 70's!
Oh, That's were the famous violin screach came from.
YES, it did, I remember as a 14 yo. I watched it with a friend. When the man started walking up the stairs my mom said to me and chris (the friend) here it comes and yet we both literally jumped out of our seats in fear. I truly think that music had a lot to do with it. A true masterpiece.
alfred hitchcock knew what intrigued people, he knew what they wanted to see. he knew how to keep you, not waiting, but wanting to see what would happen next. that is why he's the greatest director ever if you ask me.
I love the way he talks.
"good evening."
Hitchcock: ....
Date - (8 Jun. 1972)
Alfred Hitchcock would of loved my mother Rose as everyone else who knew her did! My brother Michael loved Hitchcock's movies, especially Psycho among others.
I love : "Somebody wants to be ripped !" and "Mr Cavet will be back with his... cutting marks, after our sponsor..."
If there are such things as autobiographical origins and influences for artists, and of course there are, I would love to know what happened to Hitchcock in his early years to cause his evident obsession - a repetitive theme in his films - with wrongly accusing an innocent man. It all gets resolved in the end, but meanwhile the poor bastard gets hounded, persecuted, and pursued, and must ultimately prove his own innocence.
6:54 I love Hitch’s smile!
Alfred Hithcock movies are so much better than the shitty Hollywood movies today which are only scary because they add so many special effects.His stuff was scary because of the suspense and he knew how to fuck with peoples minds.
He seems like a funny guy. I wasn't expecting that.
@provenelk The only "modern technique" that Hitchcock didn't use was CGI. What would be more interesting is to see him with modern equipment. Remember, the steadicam didn't even EXIST until around 1976 (which just so happens to be when he made his last movie)
As a kid my family and I went to the theatre and saw Psycho. I was traumatized for a long time after seeing that. Truly I wish my parents hadn't taken me to see that movie.
3:50 This would be more likely to happen in the lady's room at Target than in an old house today. Anyway, I think most mothers keep a few tricks at hand to scare their kids into submission. Mine used to shift the car into low gear and make the engine scream when we acted up so we'd think she was diving like a maniac. I had a neighbor years ago who used to threaten to send her son back to India, alone, unless he did as he was told. What ever you think about that sort of thing, it works for a while.
He was said to be brutal to actors yet they would then say all the success they had was due to him back then. His genius.
Psalm 51
I was shapen in iniquity
And in sin did my mother
Conceive me!
My main source from this book was that she personally knew Mr. Hitchcock for many years, and his family story was told to her through his other film friends and family.
love hitchcock's films and him as a personality
Watching Alfred Hitchcock interviews give me more pleasure than these days' movies. R.I.P.
Hitchcock directed movies from 1922 to 1976. Amazing!
I think Alfred hitchcock was the first men who really scears the people with his movies !!!
I never thought I'd hear a worse impersonator of directors than Bogdanovich, but there you go. Thank you Mr. Cavett for teaching me something else new.
They don't make talk shows like Dick Cavet, Johnny Carson, etc any more, All you get is hate about Trump and political bs any more and not good guests or information. I wish we would go back to when tonight shows and talk shows really gave us good comedy and information.
Rest in peace Alfred Hitchcock you did well.
According to biographers, Sir Alfred Hitchcock had a troubled relationship with his own domineering mother, who, like Mrs. Bates, forced him to stand at the foot of her bed and tell her everything that had happened to him, although the real relationship was not as disturbed as that seen in the movie.
He´s so cute! and i love listening to him
you have amazing observational skills!!!
Magnificent director, fascinating personality.
Hitch speaks of it in one of the interviews on BBC TV...I can't remember which. His use of the uber-Gothic qualities of lighting and set (not to mention his choice of black and white stock in the age of color) were a wink-and-nod to the shockers of the '20s and
'30s. My FAVORITE Hicthcock visual "pun" is the very final scene in North by Northwest, where the train enters the tunnel at exactly the same moment Cary Grant, ummm, enters the arms of Eva Marie Saint. Unalloyed Freud!!
Having read all of the comments I can see no one understands the filmmaking peocess. Of course marty had to bring his head back abit so that the editor could cut the scene right. For your information the shower scene Tony perkins was not even at the studio that day,but,in nyc prepping for a play he was going to do after the film Wrapped.
The Man...The Legend!
He is truly wonderful 😊