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>Though I must say that often times with some of his more well >respected films like "Rear Window" and "Vertigo", and I know >this may be blaspheme to some, but I like them more for their >direction then as actual movies. Like it is rare I would want >to sit down and watch Vertigo or Rear Window, but I recognize >how masterfully made they are. Give me Strangers on a Train >any day, that movie is very enjoyable, as of course is North >By Northwest, To Catch a Thief, etc. etc.
I'm kind of the same way. Vertigo came on TCM a while back and I actually couldn't get through it all. Every time To Catch a Thief comes on I get sucked right in. But I wouldn't necessarily call To Catch a Thief the 'better' of the two.