Hitch apparently approached the filming with great seriousness unlike his usual self. He was not best pleased at not having Vera Miles in the lead (she was pregnant) and didn't have the greatest rapport with Novak. He moulded her, the same way Stewart's character moulds her, but most critics acknowledge he brought out her finest performance. The film was a flop. The New York Times thought it 'devilishly farfetched' and Time claimed it was 'another Hitchcock-and-bull story in which the mystery is not so much who done it as who cares'. Wow.
The restaurant featured, Ernie's was (in typical style) one of Hitch's favourites.
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| Barbara Bel Geddes' character Mitch is the heart and soul of the film |
A film to marvel at time and again.
Odd to see a scene set amidst the giant Sequoia trees which are currently under threat from Californian wildfires. Some of then are 3000 years old.
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