Daily Dialogue — May 6, 2020

“Only one is a wanderer. Two together are always going somewhere.”

— Vertigo (1958), screenplay by Alec Coppel & Samuel A. Taylor, based on the novel “D’Entre Les Morts” by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Alfred Hitchcock.

Trivia: This movie was unavailable for three decades because its rights (together with four other movies of the same period) were bought back by Sir Alfred Hitchcock and left as part of his legacy to his daughter. They’ve been known for long as the infamous “Five Lost Hitchcocks” amongst movie buffs, and were re-released in theatres around 1984 after an approximately thirty-year absence. The others are The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Rear Window (1954), Rope (1948), and The Trouble with Harry (1955).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Hitchcock was a master of visual storytelling, however, thanks to the screenwriters he worked with, his movies often featured sparkling dialogue as in this scene from Vertigo.