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Article: Alfred Hitchcock's Mary Rose: An Old Master's Unheard Cri de Coeur.(project for film version of play by Sir James M. Barrie)
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- March 22, 2001
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Alfred Hitchcock wryly described thc subject matter of his 1958 masterpiece Vertigo as "a form of necrophilia." While that ultimate sexual taboo proves only an illusion in Vertigo, sexual congress with a dead woman is an actual plot element in the most intriguing unfilmed project of Hitchcock's career, Mary Rose. A darker version of Sir James M. Barrie's whimsically haunting 1920 play, this ghost story would have taken Hitchcock's characteristic mingling of eroticism and death into dimensions beyond any he had explored on screen.
Hitchcock's dream project for more than half a century, Mary Rose ultimately proved too troubling for Universal Pictures, which ...