Last seen here. Only 48 in the AFI's Top 100 (Psycho is 14). You could watch (listen to) the film purely as an example of great sound design (as I mentioned before, it's a terribly noisy neighbourhood). We are, I pick up, off West Ninth Street - Greenwich Village, in fact, whilst Lisa (naturally) lives in a posh Uptown district of West 63rd Street.
In the Truffaut book, Hitch reveals that the Stewart-Kelly relationship in which he is disabled mirrors the murderer's in which the wife is similarly confined - mirror images. And that he was disappointed with Franz Waxman's love theme which the composer is creating.
The scene with the dead dog is the only one that breaks the 'rules' of the film where the shots are not from Stewart's point of view.
With Notorious, Truffaut's favourite Hitchcock film.
I love the way everyone just lets themselves into Stewart's apartment without knocking, even the detective - this is obviously a very deliberate point as finally, it's the murderer who lets himself in - he's just copying everyone else.
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