Pynchon and Hitchcock

[Henry M]

A-and how about them windmills?

> Date:          Wed, 08 Jan 1997 08:05:03 -0500
> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
> From:          chesnics at fido.nhlbi.nih.gov (Scott Chesnick)
> Subject:       Pynchon and Hitchcock

> Echoes from an earlier time
>   I watched an early Hitchcock Film " The Secret Agent " recently and
> discovered a bit of  a familiar Pynchon  plot fragment.
>   The heroes being pursued in this convoluted plot of spies ,intrigue,
> collusion ,and conspiricy by special German agents working for non other
> than the repeating central theme for paranoids "IG Farben "
> 
> Secret Agent, The (1936)
>                  Cast: Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Robert
> Young -- 
> Director: Alfred Hitchcock 
>                  John Gielgud is a British agent assigned to kill an enemy
> agent. He finally identifies the real secret agent with the help of fellow agent
>                  Madeleine Carroll and Peter Lorre as the outrageous
> "General"...but then a train wreck...and...all Hitchcock with a garnish of
> light humor.
> 
>   Another film that would fit in to this theme  or at least be on Ted
> Kaczynsk must see list is.
> 
> "Sabotage"   1936
> Starring Sylvia Sidney and Oscar Holmoka. An early Hitchcock thriller based
> on Conrad's "The Secret Agent" A woman who works at a movie theater suspects
> her quiet husband might be the terrorist planting bombs around London.
> 
> Does anyone else have any Hitchcockian  parts they would like to add ? Scott
> 
> 


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