- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Santa Monica Press (1 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1891661272
- ISBN-13: 978-1891661273
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 26 x 1.8 cm
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"The ideal book for anyone who has ever wanted to retrace the master's steps around the Bay Area."
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"Beyond merely categorizing everything about their beloved city, Kraft and Leventhal let their love of the director's movies break through the mist."
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A must for any Hitchcock fan or Bay Area cognoscente, 14 Nov 2002
By James A. Edison - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco (Paperback)
This book provides the intricate details of the filming of a number of Hitchcock classics in the SF Bay Area. The book covers the locations and filming of Shadow of a Doubt, Vertigo, The Birds, Suspicion, Psycho, and Family Plot, and explores the ways in which the Bay Area provided an inspiration for the movies as well as a wide variety of settings. It served as a reminder to me of the wonderful diversity of the Bay Area and the keen eye Hitchcock had for what could make a movie.
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Hitchcock & San Fransisco - a pairing made in heaven, 21 Nov 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco (Paperback)
This book is awesome! I purchased it for my mom who is a huge Hitchcock fan and loves San Francisco. She read it from cover to cover and enjoyed every minute of it...The book is written in a way that conveys the brilliance of Hitchcock and how he used the city to enhance his plots and characters...I recommend this to anyone who is a film buff or just loves a good read on a dark stormy night..
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A Nice Place to Visit, 9 Oct 2005
By John P Bernat - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Footsteps in the Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco (Paperback)
Hitchcock loved northern California. He shot some of his most memorable films there, and this book assembles the trail he walked through the greater San Francisco Bay area in many of his films.
In one film documentary, Hume Cronyn, who co-starred in one of Hitch's own favorite movies - "Shadow of a Doubt" - described how Hitch enthused on filming in and near California wine country. "We'll go to the vineyards and squeeze the grapes over our mouths, until the juice runs down onto our shirts."
Here you can see pictures from both the filming time and now, and go on a detailed journey through each step of filming for movies staged in San Francisco or elsewhere in Northern California (The Birds, for example, was filmed in Bodega Bay). The authors present the sites as they were for each scene and then describe those sites as they are today, if they still stand.
Perhaps the most haunting images are of the historic Mission Dolores Church, where James Stewart followed Kim Novak to a graveside in Vertigo. This still lies at the heart of the city's Mission District. You also get views of the Golden Gate bridge approach where Kim jumped into the bay, and find out that this plot of land only existed in moviedom...
A historical curiosity: as much as the Hitchcock's were charmed by this area, they sold their second home here in the early 1960s and spent the rest of their lives in their modest Bel Air house. Like so many older people, they liked the year-round heat, I guess.
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