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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

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

The Skin Game ** (1931, Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C V France, Helen Haye) – Classic Movie Review 2101

Produced by British International Pictures, The Skin Game (1931) is worth a little look but it is a mostly fairly tedious experience, and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s least interesting movies, probably just of interest for Hitchcock […]

Jan, 23

Murder! **** (1930, Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander, Donald Calthrop, Marie Wright, Esmé Percy) – Classic Movie Review 861

The 1930 British thriller film Murder! is a rare whodunit from Alfred Hitchcock, who experiments with a daring psycho-sexual theme and improvised dialogue, with actors talking while a 30-piece orchestra played live on the set. […]

Mar, 02

Young and Innocent [The Girl Was Young] **** (1937, Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, Basil Radford, George Curzon) – Classic Movie Review 462

In 1937 Alfred Hitchcock freely adapts Josephine Tey’s classic crime novel A Shilling for Candles as one of his archetypal free-wheeling, fast-moving, witty bantering pursuit thrillers. Along with Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps and […]

Dec, 01

The 39 Steps ***** (1935, Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Wylie Watson, John Laurie, Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Haye, Miles Malleson) – Classic Movie Review 119

Alfred Hitchcock’s beguiling 1935 spy thriller film The 39 Steps rattles along in a luxury-class ride. Robert Donat is wonderfully suave and assured as Richard Hannay running for his life from a nest of spies […]

Aug, 02

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