![]() ![]() The Master turned it down and they didn't collaborate until Rope a decade later. When Hitch suggested that he and Hamilton work together, the writer offered to adapt this radio piece. Interestingly, though I'm sure coincidentally, the plot is very similar to a 1936 radio play that Patrick Hamilton wrote for the BBC, Money with Menaces, in which an apparently innocent middle-class man is led a merry dance around London from phone box to phone box, menaced by an unseen tormentor who turns out to be someone the protagonist bullied at school. The phone call (remote, but intimate) and the phone booth (private, but public) symbolise aspects of modern life and our relationship to technology, and they're cleverly used in Joel Schumacher's involving thriller Phone Booth. Hitchcock's signature appearance in his first American film, Rebecca, has him standing outside a telephone kiosk occupied by George Sanders during Grant's famous long kiss with Ingrid Bergman in Notorious he's conducting a phone call with his boss the blonde Tippi Hedren is trapped inside a glass kiosk by menacing seagulls in The Birds Dial M For Murder speaks, or rings, for itself. ![]() ![]() The sophisticated Italian comedies of the 1930s came to be known as 'white telephone movies', and there are as many telephones as blondes in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, who began his working life as an employee of the Henley Telegraph Company. Their careers became linked through their experiments with recording sound and later through the appearance of phones in films. Phone Booth (81 mins, 15) Directed by Joel Schumacher starring Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest WhitakerĪlexander Graham Bell, the Scot who pioneered the telephone, and Thomas Alva Edison, the American who pioneered the cinema, were born within a couple of weeks of each other in 1847. ![]()
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