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Murder! The films of Alfred Hitchcock: ‘Reality is something that none of us can stand, at any time.’

The films of Alfred Hitchcock ‘Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don’t give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so […]

Sep, 06

Hitchcock/Truffaut **** (2015, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater) – Movie Review

Alfred Hitchcock: ‘Silent pictures are the pure motion picture form. There’s no need to abandon the technique of the pure motion picture, the way it was abandoned when sound came in.’ In director Kent Jones’s […]

Mar, 05

Waltzes from Vienna *** (1933, Edmund Gwenn, Jessie Matthews, Fay Compton, Esmond Knight, Frank Vosper) – Classic Movie Review 2293

And now for something completely different from director Alfred Hitchcock, whose surprise 1933 movie tells the story of Johann Strauss the Elder and Johann Strauss the Younger. Isn’t this giving sons the same name as their […]

Mar, 21

Juno and the Paycock *** (1929, Edward Chapman, Sara Allgood, Maire O’Neill, Kathleen O’Regan, John Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 2290

Director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville make rather heavy weather of their struggle with their 1929 movie adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s doomy successful classic play about a hard-pressed family living in the slums of Dublin […]

Mar, 21

Champagne *** (1928, Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Jean Bradin) – Classic Movie Review 2289

Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 comedy is a poorly received but interesting silent movie in which Betty Balfour stars as spoilt rich girl who leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father’s champagne […]

Mar, 21

The Ring **** (1927, Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Harry Terry, Gordon Harker) – Classic Movie Review 2288

Director Alfred Hitchcock wrote the original story for this richly enjoyable, flavoursome, unfairly neglected 1927 silent movie, in which Carl Brisson plays ‘One-Round’ Jack Sander, a young fairground-booth fighter who marries the cashier Nellie (Lillian […]

Mar, 20

Easy Virtue *** (1928, Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 2287

‘Virtue is its own reward’ they say — but ‘easy virtue’ is society’s reward for a slandered reputation. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 romantic film is a rather unsatisfactory silent movie of Noël Coward’s interesting 1924 […]

Mar, 20

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