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Hitchcock and Music

We know him as a master of image. But Hitch was also a craftsman when it came to the other half of movies:

Part of Hitchcock’s musical style is just a matter of sheer attentiveness and sly humor. When a carnival organ plays “Baby Face” in the background of “Strangers on a Train,” in which the murders of a wife and a father are plotted, or when Cary Grant, before the maelstrom, innocently walks through a hotel lobby in “North by Northwest” as Muzak plays “It’s a Most Unusual Day,” we can see the portly master winking over his characters’ heads.

--Hitchcock, Thrilling the Ears as Well as the Eyes - New York Times

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