An awful lot of folks who read this blog apparently also speak French. I got a lot of messages like this one from Jean-Daniel Brèque…
In the short Cannes 1972 feature you posted today, Hitch says, more or less:
"Hello, this is Alfred Hitchcock speaking from aboard the good ship, Michelangelo. I think this ship is a good place for a suicide, for there is a pool without water.
"I'm looking at the Palais du Festival. I think I see a woman without clothes. No, it's a man without clothes. I think.
"Hello, I see you have a tie. In my movies, even the women have a tie. But they wear it like this (mimes strangling)."
Thanks to all who wrote. Since you all said he said more or less the same thing, I guess you're all right. For all I knew, he could have been selling Amway products.