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Analysis and comedic take on the 1951 thriller, Strangers on a Train directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie centers around the random meeting of two strangers in the club car of a train commuting from New York City to Washington DC. The hero is Farley Granger (previously one of the psychos in Rope) who as Guy Haines has been unsuccessful in divorcing his current wife to be able to marry a Senator's daughter (Ruth Roman). The villain is Robert Walker who plays the sociopath Bruno Anthony who is irritated by his father's insistence that he be gainfully employed. Near the end of the train ride Bruno suggest that they murder each other's problem (Criss Cross). The McGuffin is a cigarette lighter. Hitchcock's appearance is a humorous bit following the train ride so be vigilant.

Analysis and comedic take on the 1963 horror thriller The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie stars Tippi Hedren as a young woman of means who on a whim decides to deliver a pair of love birds to the pre-teen sister of a man she met briefly in a pet store in San Francisco. Her lover interest is played by Rod Taylor whose character lives in a seaside community of Bodega Bay California which for an unknown reason is set upon by the local bird population with murderous intent shortly after the arrival of Hedron. Does this have something to do with the lovebirds? Hitchcock's cameo is early and easily identifiable so your vigilance can be lax.

Analysis and comic take on the 1938 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The McGuffin and main plot concerns the search on a train for a missing elderly British lady, with a funny subplot of two British stuff shirts trying to get back to London for a cricket match. Hitch's cameo is hilarious so stay vigilant!

Our inaugural Podcast 101 featured the silent film in which Alfred Hitchcock made his first cameo appearance. In the coming months we will release podcast's featuring Rope, Lifeboat, The Man Who Knew Too Much (original British version) and The 39 Steps. The Lodger is a young upper class gentleman who rents a room in a working class area of London and is suspected of being a serial strangler.

Analysis and comedic take on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film Rooe starring Jimmy Stewart as a professor attending a party thrown by two former students portrayed by John Dall and Farley Granger who are harboring a sinister secret. “There’s Hitch” refers to the identification o Hichcock’s cameo in each featured film. Special emphasis in this episode is on Hitchcock’s filming “Rope” to appear as one seamless shot by identifying the imaginative edits between shots lasting up to 10 minutes.

An analysis and humorous take on Hitchcock's Lifeboat which has his most creative and funniest cameo. The movie was shot on two sets composed of a lifeboat in dry dock for interior shots and an identical lifeboat floating in a large tank for exterior shots. Lifeboat follows the survivors of a U-boat attack as they attempt to get back to Allied waters. Tallulah Bankhead starts as the sole occupant dressed to the nines and documenting her surroundings for a newspaper story. She firsts picks up John Hodiak as a deckhand that after a rocky start becomes her love interest. Other survivors include William Bendix, the hepcat engineer with a bum gam, Walter Slezak as a U-boat survivor, Mary Anderson as a young British nurse, caring for a mother Heather Angel and her baby, Harry Hall as the millionaire industrialist, Hume Cronym as a deckhand, and Canada Lee as the porter. Tensions rise as survivors go missing and the intentions of the U-boat survivor are called into question.

Our sixth episode features the 1935 film The 39 Steps. Analysis and comic take on the 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The 39 Steps is not only the title but the McGuffin for this film. The secret of The 39 Steps is finally revealed in the climax scene at the London Palladium during which the foreign operatives are foiled. Hitch's cameo is on the quick side so stay vigilant.