tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post7671062517392977768..comments2024-03-08T18:49:51.289-05:00Comments on Classic Film and TV Café: Mary Rose--the Hitchcock Movie That Never WasRick29http://www.blogger.com/profile/08358116647815569722noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-66349435942683899472012-09-25T23:15:05.761-04:002012-09-25T23:15:05.761-04:00Hi Rick -
Great write-up and very creepy concept/...Hi Rick -<br /><br />Great write-up and very creepy concept/story for a film. I find it hard to believe, even with Marnie disappointment, that Hitch wouldn't have been able to make the film if he really wanted to. Also love how he always referred to his audience as being prepared or not for the material. They were always so easily manipulated by him thru his work. Well, at least I am.<br /><br />AuroraCitizen Screenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11596338896095275116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-37715592776307807462012-09-25T22:17:12.048-04:002012-09-25T22:17:12.048-04:00I'm wondering too how Hitchcock would have han...I'm wondering too how Hitchcock would have handled the Mary Rose material. Maybe he was smart enough not to attempt it. If he had he probably would have 'upped' the creepy quotient of the story.<br /><br />I wonder what any of today's directors would do with it.<br /><br />I admit I'd never heard of this story by Barrie or of the interest Hitchcock took in it. Live and learn.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-80310843964829967422012-09-25T21:15:27.494-04:002012-09-25T21:15:27.494-04:00WG, thanks for mentioning the music. I recall read...WG, thanks for mentioning the music. I recall reading about Hitch's infatuation with it. (Like you, thank goodness, BH did the score for VERTIGO).Classic Film and TV Cafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548537117263337339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-79316873588280652622012-09-25T21:13:57.336-04:002012-09-25T21:13:57.336-04:00Toto, I also thought it might be have made a good ...Toto, I also thought it might be have made a good episode of AHP or THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR.Classic Film and TV Cafehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548537117263337339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-37968886592389861092012-09-24T19:20:12.162-04:002012-09-24T19:20:12.162-04:00Rick, thank you for the fascinating background on ...Rick, thank you for the fascinating background on Hitchcock and his decades-long fascination with this story (which he pursued much like the phantom of the title character). I read "Mary Rose" while writing my my contribution to Lady Eve's "Month of Vertigo, a tribute to Bernard Herrmann and his music. Hitchcock similarly chased the music score that was part of the original play; he was especially struck by 'the Call' connected with the heroine's disappearances and he later remembered the sensation as "celestial voices, like Debussy's Sirenes nocturne." Hitchcock twice failed to uncover the music, which he had intended to use first as part of the "Rebecca" and second as part of the "Vertigo" film score. I'm glad he deferred to Herrmann in the case of the later.whistlingypsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126688373252306609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-46214722654239711672012-09-24T15:24:00.561-04:002012-09-24T15:24:00.561-04:00What a fascinating post! I am certain there are a ...What a fascinating post! I am certain there are a number of interesting stories of directors and writers and "the one that got away." When I read this post, I wondered if "Mary Rose" might have fared better as an episode on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Things we will never have a chance to know. Very thought-provoking, Rick!toto2https://www.blogger.com/profile/09652682900471649463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-90158607546258615412012-09-24T07:09:44.370-04:002012-09-24T07:09:44.370-04:00Kim, I'm not sure it would have turned out wel...Kim, I'm not sure it would have turned out well either (I'm not a fan of his bold attempt at comedy, MR. AND MRS. SMITH). But based on the lackluster films that followed (e.g., TORN CURTAIN, TOPAZ), MARY WHITE could have been an interesting change-of-pace.Rick29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08358116647815569722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5344878851139332715.post-87816996279813493322012-09-23T23:28:36.011-04:002012-09-23T23:28:36.011-04:00I don't know how well Hitch could have done a ...I don't know how well Hitch could have done a film like this. He was a pretty one-genre type of director (but excellent at that), so he might have struggled with this. Kimberly J.M. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078951928157843937noreply@blogger.com