Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today's BTS image. It's high time we got some Hitchcock up in this big ol' relaunch of the column. Some of my favorites from the hundreds of images I posted in the last run involved everybody's favorite rotund thrillmaster. That dude almost always mugged for the camera.
This one isn't one of those funny pictures, but it is a great shot from one of my favorite movies from the director. Here he is on the impressive set of ROPE, with the entire cast. You'll remember Rope is the film that wanted to give the impression of one long, continuous take, with the few cuts hidden in camera moves and only then because of limitations of the amount of film the cameras at the time could hold.
The charming murder story (an oxymoron, I know) is led by the great James Stewart and could easily have come off as a filmmaking exercise, but it somehow manages to be a good movie on top of having a cool gimmick.
If you haven't seen it, seek it out! You'll be happy you did.
Here's Hitch on the set, courtesy of the good folks at Decaying Hollywood Mansions! Enjoy!
Tomorrow's BTS pic will come for the Crites. See you then!
-Eric Vespe
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