Dark Passage, with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall-a San Francisco valentine, all velveteen with fog, and antecedent to any movie in which a character goes under the knife to disguise himself. Here we go: Le Boucher, the early Claude Chabrol that Hitch, according to lore, wished he’d directed. For instance: best Hitchcock films not made by Hitchcock. The Thin Man franchise, ranked from best (the original) to worst (Song of the Thin Man). For me, it was a chance to revisit old friends for Ed, it was an opportunity to make new ones. In the book, Ethan similarly plans to make Anna's death look like a suicide or an accident, only he relies on her unstable mental state instead of a suicide video for "proof."Īnd while the fight on the roof and Ethan's death is essentially the same in the movie as it is in the novel, Anna is able to escape unscathed in the book.“Double Indemnity, Gaslight, Saboteur, The Big Clock . . . David has already moved out by the time Ethan confronts Anna, and Ethan is the one who reveals the secret of his own parentage (and "Jane's" identity), not David. Once up there, Ethan stabs Anna in the face with a gardening trowel before she shoves him onto the skylight and he falls to his death.īut in the novel, things happen a bit differently.
He then pressures Anna into drinking wine laced with prescription drugs, but she outsmarts him, and flees to the roof. He then explains that he killed Katie because she wouldn't leave him alone, and now plans to murder Anna, making it look like she killed David and then herself.Įthan even says he's going to use Anna's suicide video as further proof that she killed herself and David in order to get away with the murders he committed.
Ethan tells Anna that he stabbed David for sleeping with his mom and getting her all worked up. Shortly after he reveals this to Anna, he's stabbed by Ethan, who snuck into Anna's home.
In the film, he returns to pick up a few things, and reveals to Anna that he was sleeping with Katie, Ethan's mom and the woman Anna mistook for "Jane." He then explains that Ethan was adopted by the Russells, since Katie was addicted to drugs, but that didn't stop her from trying to reconnect with her son. It often indicates a user profile.įor starters, in the novel, David isn't present during Anna's fight for her life. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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