Mirrors. The casting of small parts is as great as ever (e.g. landlady at top).
The Hitchcock appearance:
In a great joke, Hitch is holding an unbeatable hand of bridge.
Charlie and Charlie:
I love the elegant way Hitch moves Joseph Valentine's camera around, his graceful pans, or the way he follows characters into rooms or doorways.
Hitch had spotted Teresa Wright (and Patricia Collinge) in The Little Foxes. By way of an audition, Hitch told her the story of the film in full detail, "including the sounds and the music. When I went to see the film, after it was all over, months after it was completed, I watched it and I thought, 'I've seen this film before.' I saw it in his office on that day." (Quoted in Projections 7, 1997.)
Another perfectly cast small role - Janet Shaw. She's a former classmate of Charlie's but it feels like the weight of the world is on her shoulders already:
And (male) Charlie's next victim, Mrs Potter, Frances Carson (also in Foreign Correspondent, Saboteur). And (female) Charlie's flirtatious friend (Estelle Jewell, her only film)... and these are uncredited parts..
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