Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind*
Sep 2, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window opened in theaters September 1, 1954. 72 years on, it stands as one of the greatest movies ever made.
Now, it's difficult to sort of quantify the impact that Alfred Hitchcock had on cinema, the imprint.
Start calculating which movies do you enjoy the most versus which are technically better, quote unquote, if that's really even a thing.
How do we quantify? How do we classify? How do we grade? How do we rank movies? Sir Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, who is known as a horror movie purveyor, but he really didn't make that many horror movies.
Didn't really make what you would call conventional comedies, except maybe in his early days.
He had The Man Who Knew Too Much in the 30s, and then he remade it with the star of Rear Window, James Stewart, with Doris Day.
But the moment where Doris Day sings Que Sera Sera, it's a really weird moment, but I guess if you have Doris Day in a movie, you might as well, you know, the immortal words of Robin Williams, let Lainey sing, let Doris sing.
Now, it's difficult to sort of quantify the impact that Alfred Hitchcock had on cinema, the imprint.
Start calculating which movies do you enjoy the most versus which are technically better, quote unquote, if that's really even a thing.
How do we quantify? How do we classify? How do we grade? How do we rank movies? Sir Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, who is known as a horror movie purveyor, but he really didn't make that many horror movies.
Didn't really make what you would call conventional comedies, except maybe in his early days.
He had The Man Who Knew Too Much in the 30s, and then he remade it with the star of Rear Window, James Stewart, with Doris Day.
But the moment where Doris Day sings Que Sera Sera, it's a really weird moment, but I guess if you have Doris Day in a movie, you might as well, you know, the immortal words of Robin Williams, let Lainey sing, let Doris sing.
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