I Just Watched It Again

The '59 version, with Kenneth More and Brenda De Banzie, which I was looking forward to, was scheduled to air, but didn't. Instead this one did, so I recorded it and kept it anyway.

I was really looking forward to the '59 version, and after being on a bit of a Hitchcock addiction for about a month now, I decided to check out this one, and I must say, I rather enjoyed it.

I've watched the '35 version too much. Watched the '08 version with Rupert Penry-Jones, who, will I do like him as a performer, I didn't enjoy that one very much.

I decided to follow up with this one and I think it is actually better than '08.

Truth be told, Powell gets on my ever-lovin' nerves, but his audacity somehow contributed and challenged resenting him.

The scene with Big Ben, save for closeups of POwell and the street below, was very well done and definitely similar to the Statue of Liberty in Saboteur.

It was quite a mixed feeling wanting POwell to fall cuz he had been such an a-hole (even IN the scene, when he is told by the officer to give him his hand. "You must be bloddy stupid!" -- Fella, you don't say that to someone in a better situation than you are in!), but it was still an interesting watch.

It doesn't take from the original. Quite honestly, you could compare all these versions. They really do watch like different movies.

I'll still give it up for the original, hands down, but this one was fun.