"Tubi TV" -- QT Exposed as a Plagarist? Classic Hitchcock and Leigh Interviews
This ain't OT...and it could have been a "pure" Hitchcock post but...well, better to group things together under one umbrella:
"Tubi TV"
My streaming clicks somehow put me into this channel when I saw that it was playing an old sixties TV show called "The Rebel," starring a diminuitive little squirt named Nick Adams as a former confederate solider roaming the West and getting hard looks and all.
I had read somewhere that QT stole a lot of The Hateful Eight from an old "Rebel" episode, and I found it: Fair Game. And the answer is: yes, he stole a fair bit. I trust lawyers paid money to somebody(unless all The Rebel makers are dead, but SOMEBODY has to own the rights), and QT is lucky he wasn't called on it(He'd fessed up to stealing the "house full of hostages' concept from Bonanza and The Big Valley, but he didn't fess up to this.)
Fair Game is not gory, nobody cusses or says the "N" word; there is nothing to match Sam Jackson's monologue about the white guy in the snow.
But wait, we got:
Stagecoach unloads passengers at way station.
Bounty hunter has a women in chains in tow(he's not chained TO her; and she's gorgeous.)
Stagecoach passenger claims horse died on them.
Other stagecoach passenger explains why he was out there alone waiting for the stage.
A worker at the way station is "replacing the usual guy."
Bounty hunter drinks water -- not coffee -- and is poisoned. The Bounty Hunter warns the Rebel, who has the water to his lips, and who says "the last thing he did was save my life." (Jackson says this about Russell in the movie.)
Suspicions grow -- who is in "cahoots"(the word isn't spoken) with the chained woman?
That's a lot of intersections. QT, you're guilty! I liked what you did with the material though.
Holds as my favorite movie of 2015.
Tubi TV also has a bunch of Dick Cavett interviews. From the 70's, 80s, 90s.
Hitchcock promoted Frenzy with a full 90 minutes reviewing his career, in 1972. When Hitchcock came on stage, it was SO heartening to hear Hitchcock get a booming, interminable rock star's welcome of screams and applause. Feel the love, Hitch. Feel it(and he knew he had a good movie to promote this time.)
Meanwhile, Cavett has a shorter 30-minute interview with Janet Leigh, circa 1995 when she was promoting her book about Psycho.
What's funny: Cavett says at one point, about acting on screen: "I want to tell you about my work in Beetlejuice. Can I talk about that for a moment?" And Leigh barks -- joking but not joking -- "No! We're not going to talk about you. We're going to talk about me and my book."
Later Cavett again asks if he can tell an anecdote, this time about a Hitchcock movie. Leigh again says "No!" but Cavett goes right on(grumpily) and tells it. Cavett was friends with (as he puts it" "The great actor Barry Foster, who played the killer in Frenzy," and Cavett tells Leigh that Foster told him that Hitchcock told Foster that "Grace Kelly was the most promiscuous person who ever lived." Leigh is speechless. (BTW, Cavett was pals with Barry Foster because in the 1973 short series "Divorce His, Divorce Hers," Cavett's wife played Liz's best pal, and Foster played Dick's best pal. No murders.)
Eventually, they manage to cover Leigh's new 1995 book about her experiences on Psycho, but she's talking so fast and nervous and frankly , "clichéd," that there is not much to talk about. Oh, well.
Tubi. Its got The Rebel, Hitchcock on Cavett and Leigh on Cavett.
For your consideration.