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Latest Episodes

Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #28)
May 06, 2024

Must I remind you that *you* are the fugitive from justice and not I? It'sThe 39 Steps: Part 2! Hitchcock returns to what is clearly a favorite premise: an innocent man on the run from a criminal con

Remembering Greatness, Forgetting the Rest (Cutting Room Floor #204)
May 02, 2024

400 episodes! Wild. This week, we're tackling the question of bad vs good vs great from the angle of seeking out new books, TV, and Film. It can be a hard road! Most stuff out there isn't great...so,

Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #27)
April 29, 2024

There was something strange about Johnny Asgarth... We're back to the realm of suspense, paranoia, and murder. Or...is it? That's the question Joan Fontaine must answer when she marries the charming b

Commanding Intelligence (Cutting Room Floor #203)
April 25, 2024

Can you fall in love, deeply in love love, with somebody you know isn't as smart as you are? We're not talking about pets, or kids, inanimate objects, or even sexual attraction. We're talking about gr

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #26)
April 22, 2024

If you had it all to do over again, would you have married me? Hitch takes on married life in its screwball form! These comedies were very popular at the time (see: Grant and Hepburn inBringing Up Ba

The Wrong Direction (Cutting Room Floor #202)
April 18, 2024

How do you know when you've gone in the wrong direction? What are the signs? And when you realize that you have, what do you do? Josh and Ira share their own personal insights on this question, coveri

Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #25)
April 15, 2024

There's a crime hatching on that bedeviled continent... World War II is in full swing when this movie releases. Or, at least it is in Europe. London is being bombed, and Hitchcock can't help but feel,

The Elements of a Great Film (Cutting Room Floor #201)
April 11, 2024

What makes a good movie? What are the things that stand out? We all have our own personal versions of the answer to this question. Josh and Ira each answer for themselves without getting into the weed

Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock Deep Dive #24)
April 08, 2024

Do you think the dead come back and watch the living? Mr. Hitchcock is in Hollywood! Alfred makes his first film in the States, and holy crap does he have some fun with his budget. Everything tinsel t

Hitchcock's British Period Takeaways (Cutting Room Floor #200)
April 04, 2024

Hitchcock is moving to Hollywood! As the master of suspense makes his way west, we're taking a pause here to look back on his period in Britain. 13 years. 24 films (one of which has been lost since).