> > Personally, Stephen -- this will relieve you -- I think "Rear Window" is Hitchcock's greatest, bar none, and it will be high on my forthcoming "Top 100" list.
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> Good. Why is this view so uncommon? "Vertigo" and "Psycho" are both fantastic films, but neither one of them carries the extreme intensity of "Rear Window" which is made even more intense because it seems so plausible.

For my part, I liked "Vertigo" better. "Rear Window," "Vertigo" and "North By Northwest" are my picks for Hitch's best films - "Psycho" is, in my estimation, widely overrated. It's a good film, but I didn't find it as effective as the others. Then again, that could be because, as has been said, everyone already knows what happens and all that.