The Hitch is Back"Known for his voyeuristic camera angles, startling imagery and issues with icy blondes, Alfred Hitchcock is considered one of the most influential filmmakers ever. See why when another round of films from the Master of Suspense returns to the Eureka Theater for August's Summer of Suspense.
The series gets underway with Rebecca (1940) on Friday, Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. Doors at 7:30 p.m. ($5). This moody psychological drama, winner of Best Picture and Best Cinematography, stars Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier in some fine gothic drama: dark shadows, the supernatural, romance, obsession, everything going up in flames."Even if we'd wanted to attend, thanks to Google not getting the alert to me until today, we couldn't because the showing was 2 days ago. However, two things about the quoted portion of the article caught my eye and prompted me to still post about it:
1) "some fine gothic drama: dark shadows"
and
2) "everything going up in flames."
Why the first caught my eye is obvious - but can you believe how foolish I've been not to realize that the reason Collinwood goes up in flames at the end of the 1970PT storyline is more than likely because Manderley does the same at the end of
Rebecca, on which 1970PT is closely based. How could I have been so dense not to realize that until today when I saw "everything going up in flames"?!
Though at least Hoffman is long dead before it happens so it's not a straight ripoff, er, homage to the end of
Rebecca...