What's the Worst Alfred Hitchcock Movie?

Since asking about the best spawns a good debate. How about the worst?

I guess I have to go first. It's hard as I've seen most of them, yet one also has to take into account the times.

I'd probably pick one of the early films, like The Farmer's Daughter, but that's probably not fair.

Family Plot is probably an easy one, but I'll have to go with it.

I can only go based off of what I've seen. So far that is The Man Who Knew Too Much remake.

Well, if it's a Hitch film, it's fair to call it his "worst"... except that I like Family Plot quite a bit. Some of his early flicks are pretty weak, but I think I'll go with the incredibly-dry Topaz, even though it's starting to seem less awful as time goes by.

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I'd go with Topaz.

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probably Psycho. but only because it was a departure from his other suspense films (i.e. north by northwest or vertigo)

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Of the Hitchcock films I've seen, the one I've liked least is probably Frenzy

In spite of my obsession with his movies, I still haven't really seen enough of his films to participate. As a matter of fact, all of them are at least 8/10 for me

But I suppose I'll pick Dial M For Murder.

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I thought Family Plot was fabulous. Out of all the films I've seen of his, I didn't think much of I Confess.

I've only seen part of I Confess, but what I saw of it didn't impress me that much.

Torn Curtain. A film with both Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, I somehow dislike.

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I'd say Topaz

I'd have to say Family Plot at the moment as it's the only one i remember thinking - "What the hell is this"
However i'm willing to give it another go at some point.

Come on! Dial M is at least in his top 5

Don't get me wrong, it's still a fantastic film, I'd give it an 8/10. There is no such thing as a bad Hitchcock movie, or even a below average one

Half his movies are at most average. There's only so many ways to shoot an espionage romance thriller, and after doing it 60 times he had left behind about 30 duds, which is one reason most film people haven't seen all his films.

(those numbers are guesses)

I really didn't like The Birds(I like the idea and always want it to come off better than I think it does), but the Manxman would be the worst I've seen because the guy on the left-



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That's baloney. He probably has a higher percentage of excellent movies than any director. Thirty duds? No way. I haven't seen his thirties non thriller movies and the silents, but complete duds, and being generous, I can think of only two from the forties, The Paradine Case And Mr.and Mrs. Smith, two from the fifties, Stage Fright and arguably I Confess, then he hit a bad patch in the sixties with Torn Curtain, Marnie, and Topaz, but recovered with Frenzy, then closed with the uneven Family Plot. To get to thirty you would have to include a lot of well liked movies. And none of his duds are as terrible as some from the late career of some other acclaimed directors. John Huston made some really awful ones in the sixties and seventies. Otto Preminger turned out turkey after turky from the late sixties on, and Billy Wilder's last movie, Buddy, Buddy, was so awful Hollywood would never let him make another movie again. And Hitchcock made many, many different types of suspense films, not just romantic espionage thrillers. And even those are not all variations of the same story. There is a huge difference in treatment and tone from Notorious and North by Northwest. Yes, there are some similarities, both have a blonde woman spy working undercover, but one is a drama about redemption and one is a comic send-up of a genre Hitchcock practically invented, the innocent man on the run chase thriller, which he did just three times previously.

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Alright I'll be more exact here:

I didn't care for any of his films up to The 39 Steps, so there goes 12 already. Secret Agent isn't bad but not something I'd recommend. Sabotage through Rebecca are all great sans Jamaica Inn, and after Rebecca were 4 average films. Shadow Of A Doubt through Strangers On A Train are all great, I Confess was ok but lacked a lot of possibilities, Rear Window speaks for itself, actually haven't seen Dial M For Murder, two more skippable ones, haven't seen his TV shows, and then The Wrong Man through Psycho are all great. Nothing after that drew any interest from me.

Okie dokie then adding it all up: 25 films that I personally find exercises in monotony. I guess I wasn't far off.

Again, my only point was that this:
doesn't hold up. I think his legacy can speak for the rest of his good - brilliant films.