" Strangers on a Train", which is your favorite Hitchcock film, and TCM

" Strangers on a Train" ( 1951)-is my favorite Hitchcock film. It is on TCM right now. I love this film with its homosexual subtext, its commentary about class and madness, and it is a tight, engaging story. Farley Granger is very handsome man for his time. He is sexually ambiguous in that great fifty's way. This is Robert Walker's best performance. He was a kind of sexually ambiguous actor. And Hitchcock's direction of his only child. Did she make any other movies? I have noticed, over the past year, that between 4 and 8 PM-east coast time TCM plays great and interesting films. I love TCM.

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• I would have to say Notorious and North By Northwest. I like most of Hitch's films, but these two stand out for me because they are so seamless and well put-together. It's like they are the cinematic versions of Swiss watches.

• Strangers has Hitchcock's finest scene. The murderer slowly driving that ridiculous little carnival boat over to the island and back when he murders the girl is brilliant.

• Pat Hitchcock was also in her father's TV show plus in two other movies of his: Psycho (she played Marion's co-worker who offers her pills) and Stage Fright (her character's name is Chubby Bannister!) I wish she'd have worked more, I liked her a lot.

• My favorites: Rear Window Psycho The Birds North by Northwest Runners up: Strangers on a Train Notorious Rope Dial M For Murder Shadow of a Doubt To Catch A Thief Marnie Frenzy The Man Who Knew Too Much Saboteur Rebecca The 39 Steps Vertigo

• Love it! Am a real Hitchcock fan - Vertigo and Rebecca are two films I watch at Christmas (or any other time I feel like it.)

• "Vertigo" is my favorite, by quite a large margin. It's a very strange film, but the combination of the the beauty of 1950s San Francisco, the sense of reality giving way, and the twisted relationship between the principals get me every time. I understand why other people don't love it the way I do, but I think of it as 19th century love/death romanticism brought into the 20th century. Runners-up are "Psycho", "Shadow of a Doubt" and "Rebecca".

• North by Northwest, Psycho, and Vertigo are my favorites, but I'm also very fond of Rope and Rear Window.

• North by Northwest and Rear Window I think The Birds is actually overrated.

• Lifeboat is far and away my favorite.

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• I love Rope, but I think maybe I love it most because I would definitely kill someone and shove him in a trunk to have that apartment.

• "Vertigo" is my favorite. I have a soft spot for "Suspicion" and "Dial M for Murder" and I have never warmed to "The Trouble With Harry" but I'm not sure why I don't like it.

• [quote]I have never warmed to "The Trouble With Harry" but I'm not sure why I don't like it. I'll watch Torn Curtain and Topaz before I watch "Harry". There's just something about it that is unappealing and I can't get into it. I like The Wrong Man with Henry Fonda and Vera Miles but it's not one I watch that often.

• His early hits The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes are well worth checking out -- droll and suspenseful.

• Never have seen a Hitchcock film that didn't have at least one totally brilliant scene.

• What was up with Robert Walker's character? Has anyone read the novel? His mother seems to know he's crazy but she makes excuses for him, and nothing is ever explained about his Dad. Rope and Rear Window are my favorites.

• I find it hard to pick a favorite and stick to it.

• Shadow of a Doubt Strangers on a Train Vertigo North By Northwest Psycho Agree that The Birds is overrated, though there are some excellent sequences. The Trouble With Harry is rather flat, and not helped by having the rather dull John Forsythe as the lead.

• Not another Best of Hitch thread ! Strangers on a Train is quite different from the original novel by Patricia Highsmith (one of my favourite writers) - the book is equally fascinating in itself and seeing how they changed it for the film. It was a great idea which Hitch took and ran with.

• Somehow I love the less-that-excellent, "I Confess."

• No love for Family Plot? I'd never call it a favorite but I make a point of watching it whenever it airs and I enjoy it every time.

• Rebecca, The Lady Vanishes and The Birds are my favorites. How about a worst Hitchcock thread?

• I put the 39 Steps when I meant to put The Lady Vanishes as another favorite. I've never even seen 39 Steps.

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• NOTORIOUS is one of the deepest romances ever put on film, and one of the most beautiful. Who knew that Hitchcock could give Frank Borzage a run for his money? I do like REBECKY, but it's a little to David O. Selznick for my taste. Wonder if that's where Hitchcock got the "What does the "O" stand for?" joke in NORTH BY NORTHWEST?

• Anyone watching the marathon on TCM today?

• I'm watching one of my favorites now Dial M For Murder R24.