030 – Jane Eyre!

03/01/18 • -1 min

It's Del Toro Time - A Guillermo del Toro-adjacent Podcast

Orson Welles! John Houseman! Aldous Huxley! Joan Fontaine! Uncredited Elizabeth Taylor! It’s a cavalcade of disparate talents as Ollie and I watch Robert Stevenson’s “Jane Eyre” from 1943! This rounds out our “Funtaine!” trilogy and ends on a bang. What have we learned? Don’t date creepy guys with secrets. Seems like a good lesson, really.

https://ia600107.us.archive.org/10/items/DelToroJaneEyre/DelToro-%20Jane%20Eyre.mp3

https://ia600107.us.archive.org/10/items/DelToroJaneEyre/DelToro-%20Jane%20Eyre.mp3

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029 – Suspicion!

The Hitch is BACK, BABY! We’ve got another Hitchcock film and it brings back our favorite Joan Fontaine! In “Rebecca” Fontaine played a mousy young woman, swept away by a charming, if sinister, good looking man into a world where she began to feel like her life might be on the line. In “Suspicion” . . . that . . . that kinda happens, too.

Ollie and I pick apart the plot, characters and poor Beaky’s unusual and easily avoidable death. It’s 1941’s “Suspicion!”

https://ia800106.us.archive.org/10/items/DelToro029Suspicion/DelToro-%20029%20Suspicion.mp3

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031 – Shadow Of A Doubt!

We’re back with our third (and final?) Hitchcock film (Ollie: Good) 1943’s “Shadow of a Doubt!” Even though we’ve actually enjoyed each and every one of Hitch’s films, we’re ready to move on, away from the theme of “naïve young woman gets taken in by a seemingly malevolent older man.”

In “Shadow of a Doubt” a naive young woman gets taken in by a . . . well, you get it. This is a big turning point for Hitchcock, though, as he finally settles in to small-town America and really brings the humor and charm that will stand as a contrast to the darkness in his films. Ollie and I really liked this one a lot!

https://ia803103.us.archive.org/11/items/ShadowDoubt/Shadow%20Doubt.mp3