Wow… who could ever forget the imagery in this film?
Just look at that crop duster in attack mode!
The stark light, in so many scenes…
especially on Mount Basset, where the handsome, suave Cary Growl and the elegant Eva Marie Saint Bernard are fleeing their pursuers …
clambering in basset fashion over that giant, cold, stone muzzle….
Heart-stopping, indeed!
…
There’s also the now-familiar but ground-breaking animated title sequence by the inimitable Saul Basset…
and of course, the juxtaposed cuts and long shots for which Hitchdog was famous.
…
The humans may have copied it all, as Stel shows us…
but as ever, the poster and the film only serve to point out canine film-making superiority.
Those huge human sculptures have short, pointy “people muzzles” … or as we humans call them… simply “noses.”
Who could clamber about on one of those puny things?
Besides, all the mistaken or concealed identities and false trails could only be sorted out by scent-hound noses… the human attempt is mostly confusing.
…
Eva Marie St. Bernard always seemed a bit cool, as canines go…. but I have to admit she looks beautifully sleek in this film.
And nobody of any species does more for a well cut suit than Cary Growl! Sigh….
From: The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book
By: Ruth Hutchinson
Illustrated by: Tim Palmer
Published by: HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK 1958
Earlier edition published as: The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book (1948)
Library of Congress catalog card number 58-8873
“PRETZELS” Credited to: (No credit given.)
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 yeast cake
1/4 cup lukewarm water
1 egg white, well beaten
3 3/4 cups flour
1 egg yolk
Scald milk, add butter, sugar, and salt. When mixture is lukewarm, stir in yeast softened in warm water, and the egg white. Stir in flour gradually, enough to make soft dough. Knead dough on floured board for 3-4 minutes, cover, and let rise in warm place until doubled. Punch down, roll out on floured board. Cut into thin strips, finger width, shape into pretzels, pinching ends together. Let stand on board until they begin to rise. Fill a large, shallow pan half full of water. When very hot, not boiling, drop pretzels in, one at a time. Cook them under the boiling point on one side, turn and cook on other. Drain, brush with beaten egg yolk, sprinkle with coarse salt or caraway seeds. Bake on buttered baking sheet in 400° oven 15 minutes.
The story goes that pretzels are twisted as they are because they represent angels with their arms crossed in supplication.
Notes from me:
1 yeast cake is the equivalent of one 8 gram envelope of loose yeast or 2 1/4 teaspoons.
Well – the (salty) “Brezeln” here rise slowly overnight (in a cool place) and are put in (sodium) lye before being sprinkled with coarse salt and baked.
I found the yeast cake part very interesting because small amounts (cubes) of yeast are 42 grams here – explains why so many recipes here in Germany ask for way too much yeast!
This scene never quite made sense to me even as a kid. Did he step in a gopher hole? Did his shoe come untied? Because that plane was not close enough to knock him over.
Good morning philm poster phans! It’s take mom shopping day!
Y’all try not to get twisted in a pretzel. (((((HuGz!)))))
I know what you mean about the crop duster scene. I always thought he was diving out of the way, though.
A collision would likely kill the pilot too, but crop dusters spread pesticide – poison.
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Love a basset in a suit! The background is great! That plane coming up behind him sure makes his ears fly.
[human version]
I have only the vaguest memory of this (and that was brought up by listening to it). It’s a fun piece though, thanks, StelBel.
Meh. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all.
Well… you can color me confused…
If you’ve “seen one”. before…. can you ‘splain me why Mr. Mouse is wearing a globe full of water?
Look again…
“Morning Watering” by: Nacho Yagüe
The detail re: Tigressy’s comment (edited in about 50 minutes later).
My name is Daisy.
Love this score! Bernard Hermann at his best!
thanks for tomorrow’s movie!
we have the human copy poster hanging in our theatre. without all the great names. Stel, where do you get all the ideas?
A favorite! The film and Stel’s poster. One of Hitchdog’s best.
Cary Growl is a star! This is a favorite movie!
The pilot: Snoopy (unnamed).
North by Northwest!
Wow… who could ever forget the imagery in this film?
Just look at that crop duster in attack mode!
The stark light, in so many scenes…
especially on Mount Basset, where the handsome, suave Cary Growl and the elegant Eva Marie Saint Bernard are fleeing their pursuers …
clambering in basset fashion over that giant, cold, stone muzzle….
Heart-stopping, indeed!
…
There’s also the now-familiar but ground-breaking animated title sequence by the inimitable Saul Basset…
and of course, the juxtaposed cuts and long shots for which Hitchdog was famous.
…
The humans may have copied it all, as Stel shows us…
but as ever, the poster and the film only serve to point out canine film-making superiority.
Those huge human sculptures have short, pointy “people muzzles” … or as we humans call them… simply “noses.”
Who could clamber about on one of those puny things?
Besides, all the mistaken or concealed identities and false trails could only be sorted out by scent-hound noses… the human attempt is mostly confusing.
…
Eva Marie St. Bernard always seemed a bit cool, as canines go…. but I have to admit she looks beautifully sleek in this film.
And nobody of any species does more for a well cut suit than Cary Growl! Sigh….
That mess two days ago still hasn’t cleared completely for me at least. The program’s response times are way down.
No reason to complain then…
It’s been working OK for me the last two days. Of course today I just got here at 8:30pm and it had been better in the evening.
pretzels
There are a good many ways to decorate pretzels.
From: The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book
By: Ruth Hutchinson
Illustrated by: Tim Palmer
Published by: HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK 1958
Earlier edition published as: The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book (1948)
Library of Congress catalog card number 58-8873
“PRETZELS” Credited to: (No credit given.)
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 yeast cake
1/4 cup lukewarm water
1 egg white, well beaten
3 3/4 cups flour
1 egg yolk
Scald milk, add butter, sugar, and salt. When mixture is lukewarm, stir in yeast softened in warm water, and the egg white. Stir in flour gradually, enough to make soft dough. Knead dough on floured board for 3-4 minutes, cover, and let rise in warm place until doubled. Punch down, roll out on floured board. Cut into thin strips, finger width, shape into pretzels, pinching ends together. Let stand on board until they begin to rise. Fill a large, shallow pan half full of water. When very hot, not boiling, drop pretzels in, one at a time. Cook them under the boiling point on one side, turn and cook on other. Drain, brush with beaten egg yolk, sprinkle with coarse salt or caraway seeds. Bake on buttered baking sheet in 400° oven 15 minutes.
The story goes that pretzels are twisted as they are because they represent angels with their arms crossed in supplication.
Notes from me:
1 yeast cake is the equivalent of one 8 gram envelope of loose yeast or 2 1/4 teaspoons.
Brought over from today’s “The Comic Strip…”.
Well – the (salty) “Brezeln” here rise slowly overnight (in a cool place) and are put in (sodium) lye before being sprinkled with coarse salt and baked.
I found the yeast cake part very interesting because small amounts (cubes) of yeast are 42 grams here – explains why so many recipes here in Germany ask for way too much yeast!
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He’s 81, she’s 83; we must of been having fun.
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the ‘old man’ and the ‘young whippersnapper’! i sure wish they recorded THAT.
This scene never quite made sense to me even as a kid. Did he step in a gopher hole? Did his shoe come untied? Because that plane was not close enough to knock him over.
Good morning philm poster phans! It’s take mom shopping day!
Y’all try not to get twisted in a pretzel. (((((HuGz!)))))
I know what you mean about the crop duster scene. I always thought he was diving out of the way, though.
A collision would likely kill the pilot too, but crop dusters spread pesticide – poison.
Love a basset in a suit! The background is great! That plane coming up behind him sure makes his ears fly.