LK Special: Stephen Rebello on "Criss-Cross" and "Hitchcockian Thrillers"

Linoleum Knife

Alonso Duralde

Tv & Film

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Dave and Alonso are once again joined by friend of the show Stephen Rebello, who summons the Master of Suspense in his two latest books, Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train and Hitchcockian Thrillers.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to a special edition of Linolium Knife.
0:04.5	I'm Alonso Duraldi.
0:06.0	I'm Dave White.
0:07.0	And we're thrilled to have with us today once again, our dear friend Stephen
0:10.7	Rebello.
0:11.7	We somehow blinked after the last time he was on the show talking about a city of Hawks,
0:17.3	his amazing look back at the 75th anniversary of On the Waterfront.
0:22.4	And somehow since then, he has managed to come out with two new books.
0:26.7	So we're thrilled to have him on today to talk about both of them.
0:30.0	One is the exhaustively fascinating guide, the Hitchcockian thriller.
0:36.0	And the other one is Chris Cross, which is all about the
0:40.4	making of Alfred Hitchcock's strangers on a train. Welcome, Stephen Rubello. Hello again.
0:48.5	This makes the 16th or 17th time that you've been a guest. Oh, at least.
0:56.3	At least.
0:57.3	I'm surprised that I don't have third billing.
0:59.9	Yeah, there's just the chair here with your name on it at this point.
1:03.5	But you keep writing books.
1:05.0	Yes.
1:05.5	So we can't not have you on after you write a book.
1:08.5	It would be wrong.
1:09.7	You're the Danielle Steele of film scholarship.
1:12.4	Oh dear.
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