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On Hitchcock's TV show, Gounod's piece plays while the director appears in silhouette at the right edge of the screen, and then walks centre to eclipse the caricature. Gounod's English patron, Georgina Weldon, described Chorley as moving like a "stuffed red-haired monkey.” For publication, however, Weldon titled the piece Funeral March of a Marionette. It was a satirical character piece that was intended to be a parody of the personality of a music critic Henry Chorley. Gounod wrote the piece while residing in London, between 18. But Hitchcock reportedly remembered it from a 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
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'Man From The South' (featuring Steve McQueen and a subtly ghoulish Peter Lorre, who appears more than willing to use that chopping knife he's holding above the. It had been used for an American horror radio show The Witch's Tale, which aired from 1931 to 1938. This 'GoodTimes Home Video' release contains four fine episodes of Alfred Hitchcock's 1950s television series, 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'. Its title sequence opened with the camera fading in on a simple caricature of Hitchcock's profile.įor the music, his long-time collaborator, the composer Bernard Herrmann, suggested Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette. Ed Asner The Untouchables (195963 in the 196263 season), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (196265 in the 1963 season), and the short-lived but critically. A French classical piece became inextricably linked with the British director.Īlfred Hitchcock Presents aired between 19 and featured the director introducing short dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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