S02 · E16 · Hitchcock Rewatch and Best Picture Comparison
His Girl Friday
1940 · dir. Howard Hawks
We continue our look at the 13th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Best Picture winner Rebecca to a zero-Oscar nomination film of the same year, His Girl Friday. We also discuss alternative alliterative titles, the possibly bidirectional influence of Lois Lane and being set up by Cary Grant, before revealing the 12th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.
