I can't speak to Bunuel's Exterminating Angel, but that opening sequence in the bedroom, all without dialogue, is wonderful - you can tell Hitchcock came up in the silent era. He could really tell a story without relying on talking heads.
I love this film so much, it's hard for me to pick a favorite scene, but I'll throw out another which is one of my favorites, the dinner party at the Florida Room. The two "society gals - real class" that Chuck Benson brings along and what with Robert Montgomery's trying to pretend that he's talking intimately in the ear of the woman seated next to him who is actually a stranger and there with her own date (the ubiquitous James Flavin), was hilarious!
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ginbelt
10 years ago
A very, very funny movie -- up there with Preston Sturges' best -- but I have to agree, out of all the great scenes in the film my favorite has to be the scene with Montgomery "whispering" into the stranger's ear! I was just showing that scene to my elementary school-aged kids, who had never seen the movie nor were they familiar with any of the actors, and even they had to laugh out loud, especially when the camera pulls back and you see both the girl and her date staring angrily at him...! Comedy gold.
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