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Alfred Hitchcock
A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone
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The houses of the mismatched strangers Guy Haines and Bruno Antony in Strangers on a Train couldn't be more different, but neither looks inviting.
The houses in Vertigo and Psycho show remarkable similarities, both outside and in (see Staircases for the interiors). In Vertigo, the McKittrick Hotel, shown below, is the former home of Carlotta Valdez, a dead woman with whom the heroine "Madeleine" (Kim Novak) is supposedly obsessed.
When Jimmy Stewart follows "Madeleine" to the hotel, he sees her disappear inside and then reappear in the room on the far left of the second floor. When Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) arrives at the Bates Motel, she sees "Mother" in the same window.
Hitchcock returned to the "haunted Victorian" look for a third time in The Birds, coming up with this unusual schoolhouse for the scene of the first major assault of the birds.
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Houses † Staircases
† Women's Hair † Hands
† Eyes
The Uncanny † The
Vortex † Notorious
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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November 2003 | Issue
42
Copyright © 2003 by Alan Vanneman
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