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The 39 Steps (1935) with Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll
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Posted by Greg Orypeck on September 22, 2016
Share This! “There are twenty million women in this island, and I’ve got to be chained to you.”—— Robert Donat to Madeleine Carroll In a typical Hitchcockian quirk, or clear evidence of his individuality, the title was to be numeric—The 39 Steps—not letters, as in John Buchan’s 1915 novel, The Thirt
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Snowbound (1948) with Dennis Price and Herbert Lom
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Posted by Orson De Welles on September 15, 2016
Share This! Trying hard to be a bring a bit of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None to the European Alps, 1948’s Snowbound stumbles quite a bit in trying to be too cute and overly deft. Featuring a strong cast, including Dennis Price, Herbert Lom and Robertn Newton, dramatic sceni
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Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life (2016) by Peter Ackroyd
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Posted by Greg Orypeck on September 8, 2016
Share This! A new biography of the iconic movie director, that “master of suspense” as he came to be known, but also a man of many complex faces, as this biography reveals. The last Hitchcock book reviewed in these columns, back in 2008, was Donald Spoto’s latest of at least...
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Charge of the Lancers (1954) with Paulette Goddard and Jean-Pierre Aumont
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Posted by Orson De Welles on September 1, 2016
Share This! “CHARGE FOR THE GUNS!” In what may be one of the poorest films ever to be highlighted here, we’ll today take a look at 1954’s Charge of the Lancers, starring Paulette Goddard and Jean-Pierre Aumont. Directed by William Castle a few years before his most popular s
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) – with Jean Arthur and James Stewart
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Posted by Greg Orypeck on August 24, 2016
Share This! An idealistic junior senator arrives in Washington, D.C., only to find corruption. Like most movie years, 1939 is remembered for a number of milestones, good and bad. It was the last time the identity of the Oscar winners would be released to the press prior to the awards ceremony, sinc
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Fingers at the Window (1942) with Lew Ayres and Laraine Day
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Posted by Orson De Welles on August 18, 2016
Share This! DANGER AT NIGHTFALL! Quirky little films are usually rather amusing. Such is the case with 1942’s Fingers at the Window, a would-be suspense film starring Lew Ayres in the lead role as out of work actor Oliver Duffy. His leading lady here is Laraine Day as Edwina Brown. ...
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