S02 · E10  ·  Hitchcock Rewatch and Best Picture Comparison

Around the World in Eighty Days

1956  ·  dir. Michael Anderson

We continue our look at the 16th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man to the Best Picture winner for 1956, Around The World In Eighty Days. We also discuss the romantic allure of whist, hordes of celebrity cameos and a mysterious ongoing lack of tension, before revealing the 15th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.

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Year
1956
Director
Michael Anderson
Runtime
175 min
Genre
Adventure
Episode runtime
40 min
Season
Season 2 — Hitchcock Rewatch and Best Picture Comparison