Alfred Hitchcock Predicted The Atom Bomb | The Dick Cavett Show

But how did he know? Hitchcock discusses this and the favorite movie in his collection.
Date aired - June 8, 1972 - Alfred Hitchcock
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@blakehillman6494]

It's very interesting to watch these Dick Cavett interviews. He never interrupts his guests, he's courteous and lets them do most of the talking. It seems to me there's more maturity and respect there than on modern talk shows. It's almost calming to watch.

[@mojomojo5779]

Very well said. I wholeheartedly agree on all your points. Think of Cavett and The View, or any mainstream media talking heads.

[@suzieparis6821]

He did a few with Janis Joplin

[@uncletom356]

Look, at the end, he still called big advertising “messages.” It’s because, almost certainly, that’s what he was told to call them in order to keep people thinking the products being sold on his show’s airtime were needed to buy - regardless if they needed them or not. Similarly, on embarrassingly pathetic people like Jimmy Fallon, who got the MF’ing Tonight Show, they are hired because they will never buck what NBC wants of him. And they are, in that sense, told what to do. It’s not as if millennials enjoy morons like him interrupting talented people. Furthermore, this was Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest director, arguably, of all time. (There are certainly others who one can make an argument in terms of “best director ever,” but there’s no doubt he’s the king of mystery & suspense.) Lastly, if he told that “joke” about the Jewish boy on modern airwaves today, he’d likely apologize the next day on Twitter. Not because some mob of Twitter trolls were out to get him - that is such a farce when people like Bill Maher go on tangents about how we’re “too PC!” No, it would be because it was a pretty damn anti-Semitic joke. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, I suppose, because the whole interview, he had a deadpan delivery. Then again, he was born in the late 1800s, I believe. It’s not crazy to think he may have had personal misgivings. Yet, the audience still laughed and Dick Cavett just smiled. (Yes, I know he supported WWII, but one could still hold pseudo-bigoted views. Just putting that as an example of Cavett and the audience’s capitulation.) Oh, and a side point: When Jane Fonda went on the program post-Vietnam War, Mr. “Liberal” Cavett peppered her with question after question about the whole picture on the anti-aircraft missile. Is it possible Cavett didn’t hear the million and one apologies Fonda had made since then? I guess. But it’s most likely, just like today, that he was told to do that to demean her. Agree or not, to go into North Vietnam alone, during the onslaught brought on by the U.S., that’s serious courage. Protestors were needed and great; however, she risked her A-list career because she thought it was the right thing to do. Anyway, the point is, Dick was 100% told to do that because the executives wanted that - both for “good” TV and because their advertisers almost certainly hated her. Read Manufacturing Consent. Media, the way people react and what you outlined in your comment have been this way throughout its existence. At least during the 20th and 21sr centuries. So, while I guess your comment is true to an extent, it’s pretty myopic. Not trying to be “high and mighty” or mean to you. Just explaining the juxtaposition. Take it as you will. ✌️ PS: When I said “similarly,” I was talking about the fact major TV executives hire contemporaneous idiots with no talent for a very specific reason. I was NOT calling Cavett embarrassingly pathetic. That was for Fallon.

[@crimsondynamo615]

To me modern talk shows are too fast paced and trying too hard to be wacky. Always gotta talk over their guests making jokes about what they’re talking about and suddenly cutting to a gag reel that only makes older white mothers laugh. Meanwhile here we have a host that respects his guest and let’s him have his piece.

[@GriffinWelch]

Modern talk shows are thoroughly saturated with commercial endorsements. The host is getting paid to keep the conversation in a specific place, and interrupt or interject if the conversation drifts too far from the planned/anticipated dialogue. The guests are usually aware of this as they too show up to these things with intentions to promote their latest book, film, political campaign etc. We all gotta eat, it's just a shame that its come to a point where what otherwise would have been interesting interviews have become watered down and filtered of any real discussion.

[@RileysFilms]

This style is reminiscent of modern podcasts. Everyone's talking about how awful modern day talk shows are, but stuff like this is out there. It's just not on TV.

[@GeorgeSemel]

Yep, there is a lot of good stuff to listen to or to watch, It's just not on TV!

[@kevgh3869]

Just not on TV, ANYMORE.

[@samsonmcgloughlinakira1749]

Where though?

[@Porphyrios1]

The new late show host Kimmel, Cobert, etc. are more about pushing their own persona and selves to the audience & public versus having guest on allowing a window into them. It's disingenuous and with their viewership I cant even fathom how they're still aired.

[@ViceAdmiralHoratioNeIson]

That's crazy Alfred, have you ever done DMT?

[@Nay-kp6uu]

When he speaks about being afraid of his teachers as a child, the audience laughs. But that's seriously where one learns what fear is all about and it never leaves you.

[@bluto212]

I learned it from my parents

[@joniheisenberg6691]

True. My first grade teacher Sister Claire was a demon. She gathered us around her desk and had us take turns reading. When we mispronounced a word she verbally tore us to shreds.

[@mandyspaswick7116]

@@joniheisenberg6691 what the fuck??

[@Natimaguitar]

We had corporal punishment at the time in schools.

[@fdestcroix]

@Website guy The livelihood of those who earn a living through fighting other people, is threatened by people learning to earn their living through empathy for others.

[@Nantosuelta]

Alfred Hitchcock is the single most british person in history, other than Winston Churchill.

[@WakaWaka2468]

Churchill was worse than Hitler. Do your research

[@Charlie-ye2er]

Liam Gallagher sounds like you need to do your research. Such an ignorant thing to say.

[@rohitaswapradhan9269]

@@Charlie-ye2er It isn't. I wouldn't say he was worse than Hitler but he was a complete imperialist at heart. Perhaps the greatest stain on his career was his involvement in the Bengal famine and how he responded to pleas for food supplies. But then again, if it wasn't for him, perhaps everyone in Europe would be speaking German today. So, I think it is important to consider a person's virtues and vices and not put them in definitive boxes of 'good' or 'bad'.

[@rare6499]

Rohitaswa Pradhan he was an imperialist because he grew up during the height of Empire. You might have been an imperialist were you part of a nation of less than 40 million yet which governed over 10x+ its population across the largest empire. Churchill believed that the western culture was superior to that of the developing world, and he had some evidence of it plainly in front of him. Yes he made some decisions during wartime that resulted in the starvation of a great many people but frankly he believed the supplies were needed elsewhere. There was a war going on. The crucial difference between Churchill and Hitler (there are many!) was that Churchill believed in democracy, he believed in the concept of freedom. He may have believed in cultural and possible racial superiority of the western world, but this was a concept that was pretty widely held. He certainly wasn’t an anomaly. The difference is Hitler created a single party police state in which any culture or race deemed inferior were at best excluded and worst eradicated. Systematically using every apparatus of the most advanced economy and industry in Europe. To suggest Churchill and therefore Britain are comparable is frankly outrageous.

[@rare6499]

Liam Gallagher you are an idiot. Worse than Hitler? A democrat who fought for the very existence of the western democracies, was worse than a fascist maniac who wanted to create a single racial police state and in doing so murdered millions on account of race, disability, sexuality and ethnicity? Get a grip on reality mate.

[@windskm]

hello youtube algorithm. this time I'm actually glad with your recommendations :) interviews with hitchcock, orson welles, pretty cool.

[@FauX358]

Agreed. Just watched the Orson Welles one.

[@JohanHerrenberg]

Same here!!

[@mrmaje1]

same here........orson one was really good.

[@quigglyjohnston6118]

@@FauX358 They recommending you the "drunk wine commercial" one too?

[@xandernez7320]

Same here

[@jasonludwig2488]

Hitchcock made his name despite Hollywood, not because of it.

[@davekp6773]

Very true, I read a very interesting article on Hitchock in that the writer states that many people (Hitchcock aficionados exempt) are not completely aware of Hitchock's British films which is, in the author and my own humble opinons, a crying shame.

[@fergalhughes165]

@@davekp6773 True .. though they do say The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes are most Americans' favourite from that period .. but there are a lot more. If it's a Hitchcock film, it's worth watching.

[@tzenophile]

Hollywood would be nothing if not for Europeans. Still true.

[@melaniel.4269]

@@tzenophile The entire USA would be nothing without Europeans ;)

[@tzenophile]

@@melaniel.4269 Indeed. We have much to answer for ...!

[@photo161]

Hitchcock was a man of few words...a difficult interview, but Cavett does well.

[@lepetitchat123]

eoselan7 he is quite talkative here

[@victoryak86]

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[@FranktheTank70]

The word genius is used way too widely but make no mistake, Hitchcock was a real genius. No equal in moving picture storytelling, none.

[@syb2965]

Shadow of a Doubt is brilliant.

[@pnucklemichaels2806]

SYB I wrote that down to check out

[@EricAdamsonMI]

Love this man -- both, actually. It saddens me to think that so many people today have lost sight of these important and memorable interactions.

[@BrigidC123]

Alfred was a man ahead of the times in his time. He was a visionary...

[@rogershirley2857]

Back in the late 50s early 60s.He had a show Alfred Hitchcock Presents. On the Beeb I think. Just an hour long story once a week. My folks let me stop up after 10 PM to watch and it normally ended with a nightmare of varying intensity. The man was a master of suspense.

[@fergalhughes165]

Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a half-hour American show in the '50s. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour was an hour-long show in the '60s.

[@petersinclair3997]

Enjoyed your post, Roger. But, now I will be distracted by the shadow and background music, all day. How inconsiderate of Mr. Hitchcock to use in you in this manner.

[@jhonhall928]

Alfred Hitchcock was well connected and had his ear to the ground.

[@dtzjones7632]

A great man I have all his films and as usual Dick Cavett conducted a great interview that wouldn't have been easy with Alfred Hitchcock with his eccentricity I'm from the UK and I think Dick Cavett was the best American interviewer very respectful very calm and interesting questions didn't make the show all about him I enjoy watching his interviews very much👍

[@bennyjazzful]

WOW===One of the most brilliant directors,if not the best of all. From a mad keen 75yo Aussie fan.

[@liamnevilleviolist1809]

Hitchcock's interruption at 4:37 is pure gold! Comedy timing at it's finest !

[@shawnhapney8784]

I loved Alfred Hitchcock's tv series reruns. Hitchcock and Twilight Zone were my go to programs on Friday nights as a kid. I liked regular little kid stuff too? Marvel cartoons, Transformers, Bugs Bunny, all that? But those shows were just Soo transfixing! Absolute genius works of cinematic art looking back now I'm in my 40's. What trips me out the most is just how creative they were in a time where the tech wasn't as elaborate as it is now. Black and White films. No CGI. Can ya even imagine in your wildest dreams if Alfred and Rob had that available to their crew?! They're long dead and gone through. No amount of gold in the world could bring them back to Earth. People can make movies and short story find INSPIRED by them? But those guys were one of a kind. Only Soo many people have that kind of gift.

[@pattibrooks1907]

I loved Alfreds movies and saw The Birds for the first time age 10 in 1966 ! Its a great horror flick !

[@ThePlaceForThings]

born in 92, watching these clips on filmmakers has been so cool

[@ThePlaceForThings]

@@avae5343 you got it! watching that tonight. thank you for the heads up. any others you recommend watching?

[@OzLeedsCrew]

old dicky, only 35 years old in this interview, what a legend!

[@sukhmaidickoff]

Is your avatar taken from "The Birds" 😲😜

[@OzLeedsCrew]

@@sukhmaidickoff I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of the world

[@bobboscarato1313]

@@OzLeedsCrew Airplanes are mechanical birds, if you will...!

[@OzLeedsCrew]

@@bobboscarato1313 according to the Aboriginal people of Australia they used to think so

[@bobboscarato1313]

@@OzLeedsCrew : You mean the Maoris?

[@davidparker1940]

People don't know he is from East London. Big Football (soccer fan) and Essex cricket fan. He used to have news papers sent to california so he could keep up with the West Ham Football results and cricket scores

[@DaveE13nowagrandad]

Born leytonstone. There is a blue plaque on the wall of a petrol ( gas station) where his house where he grew up as a boy. Big west ham fan same as me 😅

[@simonham5461]

This man, god I fucking wish I could ever have met this man in person. Perfectly measured, droll and erudite.

[@bardledoo4023]

I could watch Hitchcock talk for hours...

[@jamescarter3196]

... and is there a second part to that sentence or were the three dots an accident?

[@bardledoo4023]

@@jamescarter3196 Yeah the second part is...

[@fuckoff6431]

There five season of Brooklyn nine nine.

[@bardledoo4023]

@@fuckoff6431 6 actually

[@gurleyz]

Hitchcock has the best way with words

[@ianrand9737]

He doesn't tell you the answer to you questions right away. He tortures you with suspense, subdue you with calm menace, and then stab you with the truth, slowly pushing its blade into your brain and slowly withdrawing it back and letting it fester for a while. The Master of suspense! Indeed!!!

[@spaceface7775]

He seemed like an amazing guy to talk too

[@edigabrieli7864]

To this day no one come even close to the wit and intelligence of Dick Cavett. He could interview the most intriguing character and still steal the show every time.

[@farcenter]

"I tried to Father, but I forgot the gentleman's name" absolute gold. And quite charming

[@GChris-ny8fp]

I think that Hitchcock had a tremendous sense of humor, he just disguised it brilliantly with his British comportment.

[@ericrickert3045]

I love these Dick Cavett show interviews. They are great!

[@ITSTAKING]

What an absolute legend!

[@RandyWaage]

Shadow of a Doubt is a fantastic movie! I'm surprised it's not on TV or talked about more often.

[@gregoryboyd7176]

Hitch also got his answer wrong; Cavett asked which movie he liked so little it could vanish.... so Sir Alfred tells him it was his favorite!

[@bobboscarato1313]

I've seen that movie several times on TCM.

[@dps8435]

Shadow of a doubt is an incredible film,easily his best.

[@kristiangotler5852]

I'm quite amazed how 90% of the interviews today reach their peak when a guest tells a funny story that happened at a party where celebrities hang out, while interviews like this are just simple, real and calm, without the need to exaggerate your personality

[@kristiangotler5852]

@Padraig Lane yeah true, I also watched his interview with Marlon Brando, that's probably one of the best interviews I've watched

[@glennhoddle10]

*Dick Cavett was one of the best interview conversationalists ever alongside fellow greats, the late Tom Snyder & Michael Parkinson.*

[@vlazurah789]

He was 73 here, the man saw it all..

[@D800Lover]

He was born on Friday 13th and if he had lived long enough, he would have turned 100 on Friday 13th.

[@georgelupas3499]

Actually 120

[@greatriffishere]

Yeah he would be 120 years old if he was alive today!!

[@greatriffishere]

@J Hilton no i understood his point and decided to make a statement!! Ty

[@frankpitochelli6786]

...my birthday is 7-13.... it falls on a Friday every so many yrs..!

[@victoriayoung9876]

Killed for money sadly I'm not 💯 but I'm kinda bipolar af 😅✌🏻

[@catsonnets]

As a composer, there are directors I would love to work with, some of whom have sadly passed. I would have LOVED to have worked with Hitchcock 👏

[@rickleemusic1]

Lucas and Spielberg had John Williams. Hitchcock had Bernard Herrmann.

[@stevend.bennett427]

The radio version of "Shadow of a Doubt" with Cary Grant as Uncle Charlie is a fun show.

[@eltonmayo2027]

H. G. Wells first used the term atomic bomb in 1913 in his book 'The World Set Free'. Szilard read the book and voila.

[@heinrichvonwicker168]

Damn, Hitchcock has huge hands!

[@scottbruckner4653]

He's a rotund gentleman.

[@Rangernewb5550]

He's a big guy

[@Andrew-vt2wq]

It's like he has 10 dildos for fingers.

[@MoogleSan]

You know what they say. Big hands. Big gloves.

[@cexilai5942]

Big hands , means big cock .

[@Libertariandude]

Probably one of the most interesting and cool writers who ever lived. Surprisingly a very deep intellect as well. 🍻😎

[@anthonynewsome]

Having these on YT during Covid thank god - allowing the guest to talk Cavett a unique person Hitch one of a kind

[@spencerreynolds1488]

Dick Cavett by far my favorite night show host. Always had interesting guests and knew how to treat them

[@matthewgrimm5383]

Love his work. Pleasant man

[@bowieaddict3178]

These Dick Caveat clips are fantastic!

[@campbellfiles9019]

I've enjoyed Mr Cavett all my life.one of the best ever

[@Invert_Scrub]

Hitchcock's mind was a bit of a time capsule here. We must remember he was likely unaccustomed to seeing things like cars and cities as a kid.

[@soniahamilton9914]

Alfred Hitchcock has a great sense of humour. To think he thought up the atom bomb in his movie!!

[@0ooTheMAXXoo0]

The idea has been around for over a thousand years. Scientists were arguing whether or not you could create conditions "perfect" enough to split an atom, not whether or not an atomic bomb would be catastrophic or not.

[@Degenerecy]

Not only has it been thought of, it was done in 1938 with Uranium, Alfred didn't predict nor come up with the idea, it was already out there in the science community. To quote an article, "Early in 1939, the world's scientific community discovered that German physicists had learned the secrets of splitting a uranium atom."

[@cpmenninga]

Plus the movie was made after the bombs were dropped. He gave incorrect dates for the movie.

[@Verschlimmbesserung]

Intellectual discourse has disappeared in shows today.

[@DARK24-7]

How right you are!

[@woobiefuntime]

No Colbert does a great job with balancing that.

[@DARK24-7]

@@woobiefuntime meh...

[@Ironworthstriking]

Check out Serious Jibber Jabber with Conan O'Brien. Not his usual show, but it has fantastic interviews very similar to this.

[@DARK24-7]

@@Ironworthstriking OK m8 tyvm...

[@dreww8941]

Talk shows need to return to asking serious questions for historical record.

[@WealthyHomeless]

These interviews are lovely

[@warwagon]

Such a rare interviewer he hardly interrupts the guest.

[@AdamFerrari64]

Dick Cavett’s interviews should be in the Library of Congress

[@kode4420]

As he speaks i keep expecting it to cut away to a black and white reenactment of his stories. I love his show and works.

[@Crurned]

My boy Alfred Hitchcock, I need his energy.

[@cliffperrino3015]

Always LOVED Hitchkock,his tv show was amust inour houseaccording tomy mother,GOOD ENENING.........

[@ACARDtvMusic]

Shadow of a Doubt is one of my favs!

[@mrrolandlawrence]

the ONLY man for Leytonstone who ever made it big! love the maguffin device.

[@jacobb.9181]

This is such a good show dude

[@joshuagriffith7189]

We have professional photographs my late grandfather took of Alfred and Churchill to name a few. Pretty crazy to see him moving on screen.

[@savelysavely2483]

wow! were and how its possible to see them?

[@CraigMansfield]

Nice to hear proper English for a change

[@DrummerJacob]

English has never stayed the same for more than an instant. The language is used all over the world and changes all the time. Always has from its beginning that neither of us would understand a single word of. Theyd think your English is improper because its all relative. There is no proper. There is just what you find proper.

[@rafadydkiemmacha7543]

Hitchcock is the man. He will entertain us, he will educate us, he will predict the atom bombs. What is that this man CANNOT do?

[@suzieparis6821]

Lovely man

[@aggremo]

GD I wish he would tell me stories all day what is it about his voice that is so mesmerizing??

[@geraldjyrkinen4276]

Alfred your the best I've ever known or seen. Prove it please!!!!!!

[@ven11235]

Hitchcock had massive hand, like Kawhi Leonard massive, holy sheet!

[@jamescarter3196]

He was a center for Houston until his knees went bad, and somebody said he should try directing suspense films. The rest, as they say, is really weird.

[@obnoxiouspriest]

Right? Those are some massive mitts! I noticed it immediately.

[@TheDominionOfElites]

I hadn’t noticed! My man had serious dinner plates on the ends of his arms

[@aaqilian5.085]

He also had a massive conk. A real pleaser.

[@ilovecrisps.7667]

Made an off the cuff comment while drunk on new years 2007 that social media would be worse than the atom bomb. Haha. The room snickered. I stand with my comment.

[@Fudge_Fantasy]

Legend.

[@jamesdooling4139]

This footage is fucking fascinating.

[@_banja]

In 4 years Shadow of a Doubt will be 80 years old...

[@jimmyl324]

Shadow of a doubt is brilliant

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Richard Alva Cavett (/ˈkævɪt/; born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.

[@Jwdude123]

Master class director

[@junbug1love]

I can appreciate some of the classics I've seen some of the old school movies from Alfred but it's hard to know what to make and he seems like he's half based in reality and the other half I'm not really so sure but either way it definitely makes for interesting debate and dialogue

[@James_Mallett]

I clicked on this just to hear what he sounds like

[@electronwave4551]

Hitchcock was wary of any attempt by Cavett to injure his reputation to get an audience laugh. For instance, Alfred didn't enjoy the probe at 0:49 whether there were movies that were canned because of censor issues. Alfred waited several minutes then threw in a goofy 'Eden College' joke to momentarily confuse Cavett whether he was being serious or flippant with his other answers. At 6:18 you can see the look that says it all, where he follows with a quick smile hearing Cavett back off. But, despite the mild tensions, it was done with civility on both sides.

[@SLIMECORE_TV]

Well it's a good thing you came on here to read Hitchcock's mind with your armchair body language expertise. I don't know what I would have done without you.

[@electronwave4551]

@@SLIMECORE_TV Perhaps you might watch some of Hitchcock's work and be educated by the master of subtle communications, and put down your game console.

[@ncavlleguy]

Brilliant filmmaker

[@artmoss6889]

If there is any one person who can be credited with coming up with the idea of an atomic bomb, it might be the great Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard. After fleeing Germany following the rise of Hitler, he conceived the idea of how to initiate a nuclear chain reaction in 1933. He and Fermi patented the concept of a nuclear reactor a year later, and In 1939, he was the principal force behind a letter (signed by Albert Einstein) that argued a nuclear weapon was possible and urged the president to authorize a research program that became the Manhattan Project.

[@__w__o__w__]

I'd forgotten what good t.v. looks like until now.

[@DanJanTube]

Notorious was filmed between Oct. '45 and Feb. '46, and was released August 15, 1946.

[@cpmenninga]

What are you saying?

[@fergalhughes165]

Show Dick some respect

[@ESPLTD322]

It sucks I was born in 1996, it’d be cool to have seen the 40’s to the 80’s

[@GradyPhilpott]

It would be wrong to romanticize the period of which you speak. I'm not saying that these were not interesting times, but a world war, a cold war, two divisive hot wars, the threat of nuclear destruction, and a vicious cultural revolution are not things to be wished for. On second thought, though, I guess not much has really changed in that regard.

[@SocialistFinn1]

Ehh I think whatever period you pick will have plusses and minuses. But if you look at the pros and cons then I think the modern day is the best to live in.

[@jzwaard0164]

Wow, I was born the same year and feel the exact same way. Centuries and centuries of history and for some reason I find the 1900s the most fascinating

[@jakeb.2990]

on the bright side you're alive, and most people who remember the 40s first hand aren't

[@beatonthedonis]

I love how there isn't an iota of an American accent. The way he says 'town' is a bit Australian, but that's probably the Essex influence.

[@andybaldman]

Why would you expect an American accent?

[@beatonthedonis]

@@andybaldman He lived and worked in America for four decades, half of his life.

[@andybaldman]

@@beatonthedonis It's pretty widely known that foreign people don't lose their accents just from living in a different country. Look at every foreigner who now lives in America.

[@beatonthedonis]

​@@andybaldman We're talking about foreigners who speak the same language - English - and it's pretty widely known that Britons who spend a lot of time in the USA and Americans who spend a lot of time in the UK develop something called a transatlantic or mid-atlantic accent.

[@andybaldman]

@@beatonthedonis Source? Every Briton I've known or worked with who's lived here still has an English accent. Same goes for every English actor who's moved to the US. Name one famous person who lost their accent after living here.

[@norndev]

I always thought Alfred Hitchcock was an aristocrat, I'm not sure why and I've never watched any interviews. That's a working class London accent if I've ever heard one, if not a bit more eloquent but even the working class accents in those days were quite respectable. Changes my perspective of him.

[@fergalhughes165]

@lew bronstein His Dad owned a greengrocer's, so that makes them closer to middle class

[@DaveE13nowagrandad]

Was an east london boy. Where his house was is now a petrol station. Has a blue plaque on its wall. Big west ham football (soccer) fan

[@alexthompson877]

4:29 Spoke Truth

[@missyv8900]

"Now that uranium is out of date they've changed it to narcotics." Wwwhoah. Yes he did say that.

[@archiefisher4131]

I didn't understand that, can someone explain?

[@louf7178]

@@archiefisher4131 It must mean how humans are killing themselves, although that it oversimplified.

[@rickpickle2010]

@@archiefisher4131 he is talking about controle of humans

[@bobdefalco]

HG Wells - 1914 - The World Set Free. It isn't like it wasn't discussed.

[@lyricsronen]

What a great host Cavett is. Asking all the right questions and giving ample time for answers while maintaining interest if the conversation slows down. Wasting no time on outros or intros or what not - from Hitchcocks’s last word straight to commercials.

[@tastytherrien5106]

He got that humpty dumpty build

[@davyjones5390]

he also predicted manson.. “uncle charlie”

[@leeham6230]

He also wrote Two and a Half Men! "uncle charlie".

[@grahamyates2490]

@Joe Blow It's to be hoped they were well paid for spending such a long time in jail.

[@middaysun3553]

2.16 what a lovely allegory 😏

[@Ogaitnas900]

"that I prefer you mean?" lol

[@andyh0010]

At 5:20, sounds like he's doing a Jethro impression.

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (Londres, 13 de agosto de 1899-Los Ángeles, 29 de abril de 1980) fue un director de cine, productor y guionista británico. Pionero en muchas de las técnicas que caracterizan a los géneros cinematográficos del suspenso y el thriller psicológico, tras una exitosa carrera en el cine británico en películas mudas y en las primeras sonoras, que le llevó a ser considerado el mejor director de Inglaterra,​ Hitchcock se trasladó a Hollywood en 1939.

[@angryivan9930]

I love this. I’m not angry

[@DARK24-7]

This is the perfect formula-allow the intellect/talent of the guest to be the entertainment-not a bunch of sophomoric gags...

[@CorbCorbin]

“Good Evening....”

[@Greggee100]

some one once upon a time asked him do u prefer a screen play over a novel? and without any preservation he immediately said a screenplay Why? because a novel is limitless and a screen play has to be more condensed. Meaning: u get more emotion out from the written word. Imagine that.....

[@nkenchington6575]

Precisely 4 years before I was born. Coincidence? I think not.

[@fnln3181]

A truly smart man, indeed, Hitchcock. Insightful. Intriguing about the bomb. Not to mention an amazing director. His movies are for all times. And I said the 'b' word which will bring unwanted attention; it's only a nod to his intelligence.

big? oh bomb.