Correction! Mike Frank assures me that he wasn't himself suggesting that any misanthropy attributable to Hitchcock would, ipso facto, denigrate him in his (Mike's) eyes. Mike wrote me: '... the idea that there always has to be a redemptive strain in great art strikes me as nonsense ... so i'm with you there'. Sorry, Mike! - KM ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org