Courtesy of Radio France, a series (Real Audio) devoted to the famous interview between François Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock in 1962 that ultimately formed one of the most famous books on film, Hitchcock-Truffaut (which I monkishly re-read and studied throughout my teen years). After all these years, it's interesting to finally hear the audio that formed the book. In today's installment, Truffaut and Hitchcock discuss The Wrong Man and Vertigo. Hear Hitchcock describing James Stewart's character in Vertigo, as he waits for Kim Novak to emerge from the bathroom, having "...an erection like this!" One can imagine Hitch raising his fist in a triumphant salute of masculine potency.
The series is beautifully bilingual, as Truffaut did not speak English, nor Hitchcock French; but both are ably assisted by the seamless translation skills of Helen Scott, who worked for the French Film Office in New York at the time. The entire series is archived here.
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