Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: quite simply one of the masterpieces of the great Alfred Hitchcock.
Released in theaters in 1959, The Dead is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s classics and more generally one of the monuments of the seventh art. The story of this film for which the master of thrills was forced to cheat the studio in order to make it happen? That of publicist Roger Tornhill, who mistakenly finds himself in the shoes of a spy.
Caught between a mysterious organization seeking to eliminate him and the police pursuing him, Tornhill, played by the legendary Cary Grant, is in a very uncomfortable situation. He flees across the United States and sets off in search of a truth which will prove very surprising.
Humor, suspense, incredible staging… There’s everything Alfred Hitchcock in this Death on the Run which he wrote with Ernest Lehman, inspired by a spy case from post-war: that of Galindez, a professor exiled in New York, kidnapped in the middle of the street.
As in all his films, the great Alfred Hitchcock makes a brief foray into a scene. In Death on the Trail, he misses his bus whose doors close right in front of him in the third minute of the film.
Death on the Trail is an exceptional film, which does not prevent us from noticing a small flaw. Thus, during the famous chase scene in the cornfields, which sees the character played by Cary Grant tracked by a plane, the shadow of the plane is never reflected on the ground! Did you spot this awkwardness?
La Mort aux Trousses was a very big success at the cinema at the end of the 1950s, with more than 3.5 million spectators in French cinemas.
Tonight on Paris Première at 9 p.m.
False Connection: Alfred Hitchcock Special