tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post4893843603954570766..comments2024-03-27T05:54:38.797-07:00Comments on <i>bare</i>•bones e-zine: Shatner Meets Hitchcock Part One: Alfred Hitchcock Presents "The Glass Eye"John Scolerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14082147756474762000noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-7215132727271271472024-03-03T09:57:55.701-08:002024-03-03T09:57:55.701-08:00That's a rather ghoulish reading!That's a rather ghoulish reading!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-71272632368317474082024-03-02T06:51:02.432-08:002024-03-02T06:51:02.432-08:00thank you.thank you.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02826626604746650253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-26957882065876711562024-03-02T06:32:38.739-08:002024-03-02T06:32:38.739-08:00He removes his eye because he gives it to his dumm...He removes his eye because he gives it to his dummy. He is ashamed of how he looks, and lives vicariously through his dummy. When the dummy loses his eye, he thus "repairs" it by giving him a real one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-88337798048078075852024-02-27T15:07:21.313-08:002024-02-27T15:07:21.313-08:00At the time, I suggested: Perhaps it is in memory ...At the time, I suggested: Perhaps it is in memory of the chance at love that he lost, when he almost took the bold step of revealing his true self to a woman and was jeered at in return.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-35859872921619039882024-02-26T16:47:52.763-08:002024-02-26T16:47:52.763-08:00i love this episode. to me, it is one of the best ...i love this episode. to me, it is one of the best of the entire series. as you mentioned however if it was the dummy who lost the glass eye then why was the little person wearing a patch at episode's end? johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02826626604746650253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-79714789751242144052021-03-04T15:12:27.239-08:002021-03-04T15:12:27.239-08:00I see it's been almost 9 years since I last sa...I see it's been almost 9 years since I last saw this one. I still remember it fondly.Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-87350379114660561732021-03-03T22:45:19.031-08:002021-03-03T22:45:19.031-08:00The Glass Eye was on the other night, and I caught...The Glass Eye was on the other night, and I caught it once again. It's mesmerizingly good, and I'm loath to repeat myself, of over-analyzing it further. <br /><br />Briefly: the narration, excellently done by William Shatner, was rather literary (and I think you know I mean this, Jack, as I don't want to use the wrong word that even many educated people use for what I'm describing, which is "literate",--all scripts are written by people who are literate, as are all novels, as an illiterate cannot read or write)--and with that off my chest, The Glass Eye held up to my expectations, as the presentation was just perfect for this kind of story. <br /><br />It might have been more "shocking" as a horror if made in the manner of a (TV) Thriller episode, but the "blood and thunder" style of that series would have hammed it up maybe too much, while the genteel Hitchcock Presents approach makes it more accessible to sensitive viewers.john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-63851696212324584782014-09-04T11:58:11.196-07:002014-09-04T11:58:11.196-07:00That's an interesting perspective. I agree tha...That's an interesting perspective. I agree that there is a Browning/Chaney feel to parts of this episode. Thanks for reading!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-53179797967502328892014-09-04T03:08:29.763-07:002014-09-04T03:08:29.763-07:00From my first and all subsequent viewings of this ...From my first and all subsequent viewings of this engrossing and frightening episode it was my impression that the little man with the patch on his eye,--the real Max Collodi--had removed his own eye in (in a blind rage perhaps) when he realizes that the woman would not accept him for who he was once she got a good look at him.<br /><br />To make matters worse for the little man, he understood all to well why the woman who was so smitten with him (or rather his dummy) was feeling, as he was likely a kindred spirit, lonely and unloved. I'm guessing there's a touch of the 1927 Browning-Chaney, Sr. silent picture The Unknown, which also was set in a show business milieu (a circus) and a man who, for very different reasons, had himself mutilated for his love of a woman.<br /><br />It was a totally different sort of story in the earlier film, much weirder than The Glass Eye, but the themes of unrequited love and the lengths to which some people will go to have their love "requited" (sic?) are similar.<br /><br /><br />John john kenrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00710666533854296630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-4229633434493020812012-07-12T15:40:24.958-07:002012-07-12T15:40:24.958-07:00Did anyone check out the toupee website? Brilliant...Did anyone check out the toupee website? Brilliant!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-79072485273744057442012-07-12T15:33:01.248-07:002012-07-12T15:33:01.248-07:00Thank you for this episode with the world's &q...Thank you for this episode with the world's "greatest living actor". They should soon be releasing me from the local insane asylum as soon as I stop screaming "The Shat!, The Shat!"<br /><br />Otherwise, this was a very spooky episode. A book could probably be written about dummies who control their masters, etc.<br /><br />Probably one of the best episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-63297691890839443542012-07-12T13:53:26.213-07:002012-07-12T13:53:26.213-07:00Another fabulous entry by the internet's great...Another fabulous entry by the internet's greatest living writer (with all apologies to Matthew Bradley). I just happened to have watched this recently when my girlfriend and I popped on a dozen or so episodes. I enjoyed the hell out of it despite the presence of the world's worst actor! Shatner doesn't really have the time to take over the piece so maybe this is why he didn't bother me so much. This is a supremely creepy show.<br /><br />The Shatner episodes make me yearn for an alternate reality where Adam West (the other "greatest living actor") starred in a few AHPs.Peter Enfantinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317575598411394944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672923492889685727.post-71647441015771480412012-07-12T11:20:27.919-07:002012-07-12T11:20:27.919-07:00All this and a Finney tie-in! Nice work as you be...All this and a Finney tie-in! Nice work as you begin the post-Bloch era...although I'm sure you'll take some razzing for that "Greatest Living Actor" stuff, even in (presumed) jest.Matthew Bradleyhttp://bradleyonfilm.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com