Volume 14, Number 4 · February 26, 1970
It's Only a Movie!
By Robert Mazzocco
Hitchcock
by François Truffaut
Simon & Schuster, 256 pp., $3.75 (paper)
Topaz
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Universal Pictures
We all know, I suppose, the compound character of Alfred Hitchcock's art. The sinister young man, for instance, outwardly affable: Robert Walker, in Strangers on a Train, with his expensive cuff links and strangler's hands; gangling Anthony Perkins, in Psycho, motel keeper and schizophrenic. Or the theme of pursuit, neither burlesqued as in Pale Fire, nor magisterial as in Les Misérables, but both magisterial and burlesqued; the coupling of catastrophe with charm, the ghoulish with dreams:
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