You left out his most suspenseful movie in my opinion, Notorious from 1946 with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. Also Frenzy (not "Fenzy").

i agree with sue, "notorious" is my favorite and the most suspenseful, how could you not mention that mother of his? this is difficult as i truly love them all--also "north by northwest"--how could you misspell "FRENZY"? Hitch would've been livid...i have the movies, the 30min and 1 hour tv shows on videotape, truly cherish them, so suave and sophisticated, so lacking in today's world...

Wheres Notorious??? Lol figures AMC is only going to put Hitchcock movies that are being shown on AMC.

How do you choose? Especially when the ballot is so severely lacking. I'm writing in "Strangers On A Train".

It was a tough call with all this mans' awesome work listed and those that weren't. I was angsting between "The Birds" and "Rear Window" but "Rear Window" won out. I've seen most of these classics over and over again but the one thing that sticks out about Rear Window to me is the totally natural flow of the plot. You don't have to make sure you follow all the where were yous and what time was thats and stuff. You just picture yourself in the same situation, in the same neighborhood, etc and it's how YOU would be feeling :oP Kinda like that old show; "You Are There".

))))))shudder((((( Nerve wracking!

1. Vertigo

2/3. Psycho/Rear Window

4. North by Northwest

5. Rebecca

I would replace Trouble with Harry, Frenzy, Family Plot and M for Murder with Rebecca, North by Northwest, Notorious, and either Suspicion or the Lady Vanishes.

Rear Window?? I honestly don't see the big deal there, most suspenseful moments were:

*Bored wealthy guy tries to hide his spying from possible murderer, bored wealthy guy fails.

*Beautiful but unsatisfied girl creeps across bad guy's pipe for all of 1 minute, sneaks into bad guy's room, and manages to charm some authorities into letting her get out.

*Bad guy comes into good guy's room UNARMED and tries to strike a rational bargain with him, good guy refuses, and uses a stupid, barely-effective weapon to keep bad guy back.

North by Northwest managed to keep a paranoid suspense going for the first three quarters, then tops it off with a chase across Mount Rushmore, (yet AMC doesn't even show it!) The Birds put everyone in claustrophobic danger from a near-impossible to destroy or evade menace, and never reassures those characters that "everything will be alright" at the end. Psycho was a truly disturbing piece, the first slasher, and a good one! If there was ever a person who didn't know the ending, I challenge them to guess it! Compared to those, Rear Window is the most mundane film in Hitchcock's library!

I Confess is my vote for keeping you guessing and in suspense till the last frame. Frenzy and Family Plot are not in the same league.

I can't vote because Rebecca and all of his early work is not there.

I personally love the movie "Shadow of a Doubt" with Joseph Cotten. I can also say I love "Frenzy" I wish they would have made more of a selection because some of my favorites are not listed.

I Love Marnie. I think it's the most sexual movie of Hitchcock. Sean Connery and Tippi Hedron are just wonderful! Everytime it's on TV I watch it.

i agree with the writer who stated that most of hitchcock's early work is more suspenseful than the latter...rebecca, shadow of a doubt, sabotage, stranger on a train are suspense masterpieces, marnie the most erotic, hitch really worked his blond fixation here/notorious, psycho and rebecca are the most suspenseful in my book; however, who could forget the strangulation scene in frenzy and the discovery by the secretary, the car being towed out in psycho? as mentioned, i love them all...

amc needs to do this more often...

I voted for Rear Window, which is one of my three favorites along with North by Northwest and The Rope. Wish they were playing this week also.

I never did "get" Rebecca...but Rear Window and Rope..for pure suspense do the job. As for Marnie..a series attempt at the drama/thriller...and it works half the time.

Psycho is so iconic..that no description are needed.

I was disappointed that they didnot mention : Strangers on a train

I LIKE PSYCHO FOR THE MOST SUSPENSE EVER(FOR HITCHCOCK'S MOVIES THAT IS). SABOTAGE AND THE LODGER ARE TW0 GREAT ONES. THEY ARE PART OF HITCHCOCK'S EARLY WORKS.(1927-1936)

Why weren't Hitchcock's earlier movies in the poll? As far as I'm concerned, those were the best: Rebecca, Notorious, North By Northwest, To Catch A Thief, to name a few.

My vote goes to Notorious as the most suspenseful. Will we be seeing those on TV anytime soon?

What about The 39 Steps! An awesome spy thriller...precursor to North by Northwest. Robert Donat and Madeline Carrol were the models for Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint. What a suspensful finale on the stage with Mr. Memory...one of my favorites!

I love the Torn Curtain as my most very favorite Hitchcock. It keeps me watching and the film work is simply some of the very best. But Hitchcock was the master.

Thats my thoughts, and would like to add I am enjoying this week on AMC much better than any I have in several years.

AMC was getting a bad name this year.

Really the most suspenseful Hitchcock movie is "Strangers On A Train" at the end because you don't know whom is going to win out, Robert Walker or Farley Granger.

Rear window is the best but dial m for murder is great too, but the scariest and the suspensful is PYSHCO. Isnt it amazing of how many BIG time stars had rolls with Hichcock!!! I never realize that until this week watching all of those movies he made. I wonder if Universal Studios in Florida still has a whole display of all the Hickcock memobilia like Vertigo stairs??

Some movie people YOU are, AMC! "Next on AMC, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews play cloak and dagger with the Soviets in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Torn Curtain.'" The GERMANS, you BOZO's, not the Soviets!!!! No wonder you didn't make it as a classics network - you obviously know ZERO about classics.

Rear Window is by far the best Hitchcock film ever ! Why? Because if I saw what Jeff saw out his window I would totally freak out. I've have seen RW dozens of times and it never fails to scare the ever living crap out of me. Plus I bite my nails to the quick!

Have a Hitchcock evening, Ananagramma

Rear Window is a great movie & by far, the most suspenseful of the choices--but my favorite Hitchcock movies are Rebecca, To Catch a Thief & North by Northwest.

What about North by Northwest? Definitely the most suspenseful!

Suspenseful? Hard to say since I've seen Hitchcock's best-known films so many times that suspense is hardly the issue. Now I watch for the details. But I think Hitchcock's finest movies are pretty clearly (maybe in this order) "Strangers on a Train," "Shadow of a Doubt," "Rear Window," "The Wrong Man," and "Psycho." Many, many of the other films are either too clunky-old for serious consideration ("The Lodger") or suffer from Hollywooditis--the need to concentrate on romance at the expense of action ("Notorious," "North by Northwest," "Saboteur"). Some, of course, are simply abysmally bad choices of scripts ("Marnie," "The Family Plot," "Torn Curtain"). And many dissolve into excercises in style rather than substance ("Vertigo," "The Birds"). But a director who could turn out "Strangers on a Train" is a true master by any measureable standard.

Psycho is by far the most suspenseful Hitchcock film. AMC hit a home run with this week of films by the master. I had almost given up on watching AMC. It has has become more like the John Wayne channel than the classic movie channel. American Cinema has produced thousands of classic films in every genre-how about showing some of them?

The omission of Shadow of a Doubt is glaring, since it is one of Hitch's best! What makes it great is Joseph Cotten and the Thornton Wilder script - the small, common town and average family impacted by a serial killer.

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The Psycho plot was described to me by my camp

counselor at Catoctin Quaker Summer camp,

couldn't wait to see it but did not 'til

many years later. I have been a movie watcher particularly of Hitchcock's ever since

we first had a television in '51. Rear Window and North by Northwest have always

been my favorites and are among my bedtime stories.

My absolute favorite Hitchcock film is SHADOW OF A DOUBT. I have read that it was his favorite film as well. I think Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten were wonderfully cast in the movie. My favorite scenes are Uncle Charlie's speech at the dinner table about "fat, rich widows" and when Uncle Charlie runs up the stairs thinking he is free and clear of capture when he overhears that another man is believed to have been the murderer. He stops and turns around and sees his niece looking up at him, she is the only one who knows his secret. She looks so innocent, totally unaware at that moment that her uncle will stop at nothing to keep her quiet.

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AMC really shined during Hitchcock week. Then it went, unfortunately, right back to its routing, evening "future classics" routine of showing lame '80s and '90s films, John Wayne movies, and army crap. Also, viewers gotta remember that AMC does not own the rights to such Hitchock films such as "Northwest by Northwest," which was an MGM film and primarily own and shown by TCM.

Not sure where to post this, but here goes. Does anyone know the name of the song thats being played when they run the AMC Hitchcock commercial.. A woman is singing something about shadows down the wall...?

I'm also wondering what the song is that runs during the Hitchcock commercial. I've googled every variation of the lyrics I can think of, but still nothing.

Someone, please, give us a clue about the Hitchcock commercial song - it's driving me crazy.

Augh! What is the song? I can't find it anywhere either!

Another Hitchcock marathon this Saturday, I hope we will see his early work, perhaps, Rebecca, Notorious, North by Northwest.

What the heck is a "FENZY"?

The song is "Like Murder" by Twilight Sleep.

REAR WINDOW IS A CLASSIC.ROMANCE,SUSPENSE,INTRIGUE,COMEDY.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rope, Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt have to be the most suspenseful in my opinion

Rope. On the edge of my seat every time I watch it!

What's the song played during the commercial advertising Psycho? It sounds like and 80's song maybe, played by a band. Its been driving me crazy!

How come no one has mentioned "The Thrity-Nine Steps"? Okay, maybe it's the the most suspenseful, but it's a great movie!

Sorry - my post got screwed up. I meant to say, What about The Thirty-Nine Steps"? Okay, it's probably NOT the most suspenseful movie, but it's a great movie.

The song is by Twilight Sleep. It's called Like Murder.

Strangers on a Train for sure!!

Thank you for entertainment w/no profanity!

'A tie between Vertigo and Rebecca!

No bad language - no overt sex - just

intriguing, thrilling content - pure entertainment!

Thank you for entertainment w/no profanity!

'A tie between Vertigo and Rebecca!

No bad language - no overt sex - just

intriguing, thrilling content - pure entertainment!

It is criminal not to mention "Notorious" and "Strangers on a Train" ... and someone should proof read before posting ... "Fenzy" is inexcusable !

It would figure that you guys would put together a stupid poll to vote an note even have all of Hitchcock's movies. If I am going to cast a ballot I vote for Shadow of A Doubt starring Joseph Cotten

AMC ran a commercial for their Thanksgiving Day Alfred Hitchcock Marathon. Does anyone know the name of the song that was used for the ad. Male Vocals. starts off " you can blame it on the whiskey, you can say i'm going to hell, you can blame it on the money,but it's not the reason why i've killed."

anyone know this song??

That is a Band Called Drunken Prayer from

Portland Oregon. Their CD is totally worth buying, one of my favorite bands...

thanks so much Mark. I will def check them out.

Most everything the masta' did from 1946 to 1969 were each memorable in their own quirky ways with a few good ones before this era. Nobody but nobody can emulate the feel and style of that fat genius. Johnny Alucard, I think that's from Dracula A.D. 1972 (aka Dracula Today). It's so refreshing to know that there are those who keep the great Hammer tradition alive in whatever small way. Boy, do I miss them. And always a big thanks to those who help out with the song searches. Whatever shortcomings AMC may be guilty of from time to time, it is excusable-they are one of the last 'fun' channels arounds. To be so petty as to take them to seriously- not the Soviets but the Germans? Really. Depending on interpretation, the East Germans of that time were, in fact under the iron curtain (under Soviet rule) so pleeeez stop this cranky, shallow, intolerant, old wife like, nitpicking.