S02 · E28 · Hitchcock Rewatch and Best Picture Comparison
On the Waterfront
1954 · dir. Elia Kazan
We continue our look at the 7th best Hitchcock movie according to our listeners, by comparing Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder to the Oscar’s Best Picture of the same year, On The Waterfront. We also discuss inexplicable omnipresence, Superman parenting and shoehorning musical numbers into the script, before revealing the 6th best Hitchcock movie via the still quite improbable medium of cryptic crossword clue.
