Undefended is posted every Friday. All FilmFisher writers are given a prompt and respond with a list of five items, none of which are explained or rationalized. This week…

…the five greatest Hitchcock movies Hitchcock never made. A single caveat: no Clouzot movies allowed.

 

Justin Spencer:

1. Talented Mr. Ripley

2. The Usual Suspects

3. The Fugitive

4. Wait Until Dark

5. The Bourne Identity

 

Joshua Gibbs:

1. Birth

2. The Talented Mr. Ripley

3. Charade

4. Black Narcissus

5. Stoker

 

Remy Wilkins:

1. Taxi Driver

2. The Beat My Heart Skipped

3. Match Point

4. Prisoners

5. Panic Room

 

Jon Paul Pope:

1. The Game

2. Blow Out

3. The Talented Mr. Ripley

4. Minority Report

5. Se7en

 

James Banks:

1. Insomnia

2. The Conformist

3. The Manchurian Canidate (1962)

4. Red Eye

5. Charade

 

Sean Johnson:

1. Blade Runner

2. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

3. Charade

4. Cape Fear (1962)

5. The Sixth Sense

 

Kanaan Trotter:

1. Memento

2. The Prestige

3. The Silence Of The Lambs

4. The Godfather

5. Wait Until Dark

 

Christian Leithart:

1. Wait Until Dark

2. Brick

3. The Sixth Sense

4. Jaws

5. The Spanish Prisoner