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Posts Tagged "Alfred Hitchcock"

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Sabotage ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester) – Classic Movie Review 278

Alfred Hitchcock’s extremely tense and flavourful 1936 film version of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent is one of his best British films of the 30s. Sabotage follows The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes in […]

Oct, 08

The Lodger (A Story of the London Fog) ***** (1927, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, June Tripp, Arthur Chesney, Malcolm Keen) – Classic Movie Review 274

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film version of the famous 1913 novel The Lodger by Mrs Marie Belloc Lowndes is his first thriller,  establishing him as a star name director. The Lodger (A Story of the […]

Oct, 06

Lifeboat **** (1944, Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak) – Classic Movie Review 273

Alfred Hitchcock said of his 1944 wartime thriller film Lifeboat: ‘I never let that camera get outside the lifeboat. The technical challenge was enormous. Of course Tallulah Bankhead dominated the whole film.’ Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 […]

Oct, 06

The Man Who Knew Too Much ***** (1956, James Stewart, Doris Day, Bernard Miles, Brenda de Banzie, Daniel Gélin) – Classic Movie Review 243

Alfred Hitchcock remakes his own 1934 spy thriller with great flair and success as the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The delightful Day sings the Oscar-winning […]

Sep, 15

The Man Who Knew Too Much **** (1934, Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay) – Classic Movie Review 242

The 1934 first of Alfred Hitchcock’s two highly entertaining versions of his suspense thriller spy story boasts a nimble, fast-paced spring in its step, along with several of his finest suspense sequences, a great quirky sense of […]

Sep, 14

Notorious ***** (1946, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 233

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 end-of-the-war film noir masterpiece Notorious is one of his finest, most seductive movies. It is a devious twisted love story as much as a thrilling spy story. It all starts with a brilliant, masterly […]

Sep, 09

Shadow of a Doubt ***** (1943, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 231

Taut, tense and bristling with pent-up sexual frisson, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 dark little gem is one of his cleverest, most inspired movies. Joseph Cotten enjoys one of his finest roles as the smooth and sophisticated, […]

Sep, 07

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