{"id":8326,"date":"2010-04-25T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2010-04-25T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T21:18:08","slug":"alfred-hitchcock-cameos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/04\/25\/alfred-hitchcock-cameos\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Hitchcock Cameos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OW6Rdiqlg2E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OW6Rdiqlg2E&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a><\/strong> was famous for the brief cameos he made in his own films and this compilation is a reminder of the fun that can be had looking out for them.<\/p>\n<p>I think my favourite is the one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037017\/\">Lifeboat<\/a> (1944) but it is also interesting to note what he does in them.<\/p>\n<p>Note that some involve a musical instrument: in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044079\/\">Strangers on a Train<\/a> (1951) he carries a cello; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0047396\/\">Rear Window<\/a> (1954) sees him near a piano; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052357\/\">Vertigo<\/a> (1958) sees him carrying a bugle.<\/p>\n<p>Another motif is that he often walks across the scene from left to right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A montage of Alfred Hitchcock cameos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,16],"tags":[414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}