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'Alex...will you pleae come in,we have to talk to you'


Poor Claude...

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Yes, but knowing he and his creepy mother are going to get it feels so awfully good.

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Let's not forget that "poor Claude" (Alex) was a Nazi. Any sympathy ends right there. :)

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If he had argued for one second with his mother in favor of Alicia I might of felt a bit sorry for him but he didn't so......

"I say,open this door at once! We're British !"

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Actually, Hitchcock's brilliant move is that it really does not end there. Devlin comes off as far more a jerk-hole than Alex. It's why Hitch deliberately keeps the stuff related to their nuclear program and Nazi ideology muted, almost completely irrelevant to the script and the story - it's just the MacGuffin plot in a current (1946) context.

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The fact that he was slowly murdering his wife strongly mitigates my ability to sympathize with him.

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It's just a great line-you know they might as well had said-"we are going to kill you."

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