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Practically in GP's lap


The ski scene is TOTAL nonsense.

Bergman would have had to be supposedly skiing 10 cm away from Peck

Peck dressed in a SUIT JACKET - maybe it was a dress rehearsal for Gentleman's Agreement?

No hats or helmets in FREEZING temps with tremendous wind effect (some say that you couldn't then see their faces -- one doesn't see sunsets either when filming underwater)

Bergman was looking 90 degrees to her right half the time (for no apparent reason to boot)

Absolute phony-looking background - almost expected to see a shadow of someone holding the mountains

The 'Road Runner brake scene' just before the abyss was beyond all reasonableness - and a total insult to a viewer

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Almost as if Hitchcock had arrogant contempt for the audience - he came up with stage settings far more complicated and 'realistic' 10+ years earlier!

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I chuckled at that scene. Especially at what Peck was wearing.

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