Worst Hitchcock?
Possibly
5/10
When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
I found Strauss' Great Waltz to be fairly watchable and mostly entertaining.
Juno and the Paycock is just awful.
But his worst movie is The Farmer's Wife. Dire indeed.
Janet! Donkeys!
"Waltzes" and "Juno" are worthy candidates. The bottom two are for me, "The Paradine Case" and "Number 17."
My Bottom Hitches (from worst to best)
10. The Paradine Case
9. Number 17
8. Jamaica Inn
7. The Manxman
6. Juno And The Paycock
5. Torn Curtain
4. Waltzes From Vienna
3. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2. Marnie
1. Easy Virtue
I love Number 17. I've seen it a bunch of times. Sure it's pretty damn dumb, but it moves fast! A fascinating precursor to North by Northwest.
Janet! Donkeys!
"Number Seventeen" is kind of championed as a post-modern Hitchcock, making a righteous hash of his classic formula before that formula was even established. It doesn't really move though. It's stuck in that dark house for the longest time, has a lot of expressive glancing in the guise of dramatic interaction and suspense, and a performance by Leon M. Lion that is extremely hammy and off-putting in his false attempts at comedy. Then Hitchcock throws in a fast finale that is completely nonsensical and resolves nearly nothing.
It's the most incongruous film of Hitchcock's I can recall for its failures to develop what Hitchcock would make his bread and butter. Not as bad as "The Paradine Case," but hardly anything is. I mean, "Jamaica Inn" is terrible, but at least it makes sense.
Of course, YMMV, and you clearly found something to enjoy. I guess critics have fun analyzing it, but I'd rather read them than watch Leon do his faces again!