In 1961, Alfred Hitchcock invited Grace Kelly, who was already the princess of Monaco, to star in the new film "The Porn Thieves". Although the latter readily agreed, it was strongly opposed by the people of Monaco because they did not want to See the princess playing the role of a thief who is addicted to stealing in the film. In addition, when Kelly married Prince Renière of Monaco, she had not yet completed the contract signed with MGM Pictures, so she had to give up the films of other companies, and Hitchcock, who failed to do so, had to shoot "The Birds" first. .
After the completion of "The Birds", Hitchcock began to continue to work on the adaptation of "The Porn Thieves", Marnie quickly became a popular role in Hollywood actress competition, the upper level of Universal Pictures once recommended Li. Lemick starred and starred in Eva Marie Center, Susan Hamsey, Vera Myers and Sidney Pollack’s wife Claire Griswold in "North by Northwest" Did not get the role of Marnie. Hitchcock had taken a fancy to Tibby Headley, who appeared in a TV commercial as early as 1961. After Hitchcock’s careful training, Headley and Martin Ballsam participated in the audition together, and successfully signed a starring role in " Flock of Birds. Hedley was overjoyed that Hitchcock decided to let her play Marnie in the film during the filming of "The Birds". In her opinion, this kind of opportunity is simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In an interview in 2005, Hedley said that "The Porn Thief" is her favorite Hitchcock work.
At that time, Sean Connery was already full of concerns about Eon Productions’s contract, because he was afraid of being restricted by 007 movies, so he refused to take even the company’s non-007 movies. Connery said frankly that he wanted to work with Hitchcock, but he had to read the script first, which shocked many people, and some even thought it was a blatant offense to Hitchcock. Connery really doesn't want to play the role of a spy anymore, it is impossible to appear in movies such as "Northwest" and "Beauty". Hitchcock’s agent stated that even Gary Grant would not ask to read the script first, and Connelly responded with only one sentence, that is, "I am not Gary Grant."
"The Porn Thief" is an important turning point in Hitchcock's film career. He chose a blonde girl to play the core role for the last time in the film. He worked with photographer Robert Burks, editor George Tomasini and composer Bernard Herman’s long-term cooperation came to an end. Thomasini and Burks died shortly after the film’s release and died in 1968, respectively. Herman was due to the lack of popular elements in the soundtrack and his collaboration with "Joy in "The Morning" was similar and was fired by Hitchcock. The film’s original screenwriter, Ivan Hunt, refused to adapt the rape scene in the original novel because he thought the audience would no longer sympathize with the male protagonist. Hitchcock subsequently fired him and took over as the screenwriter Jay Pleason. Allen said that this rape scene is exactly what Hitchcock intended. In order to shoot horseback riding scenes in the studio, Hitchcock thought of borrowing a giant treadmill to complete the shooting.
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