Pat: 3-D was the studio’s idea to cash in on a craze. Hitchcock was under contract and not in a position to fight issues like that, but I agree that the movie has a glee to it that the remake did not. Thanks for your commentary and for increasing my British slang by another word!

Damian: Excellent comment. Francis Coppola was a theater director at heart, and I think his best films respect the tenure of stagecraft, with emphasis on the script and the actors, not camera lenses or special effects. I see Hitchcock possessing a similar sensibility, in spite of references he made over the years to screenwriters as “stooges” or actors as “cattle”. He respected stagecraft, but I get the impression he wanted a much wider audience than the theater would permit.