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Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
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From: cn@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Needham)
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 07:06:30 GMT
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Subject: The Hitchcock Information File
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Message-ID: <149510033@otter.hpl.hp.com>
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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Lines: 3480
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Since there's been a lot of discussion of Hitchcock's films recently, I'm
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posting the latest version of "The Hitchcock Information File". This release
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now includes short plot summaries for most of Hitchcock's movies and a vastly
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expanded cast and chacter names section.
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Col
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HITCHCOCK INFORMATION FILE (updated 24th March 1993)
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[Comments and suggestions are welcome and should be directed to me
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at: cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
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This file contains:
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* A chronological list of all the movies directed by Hitch
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* The above list sorted by average rating from the movie ratings report
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* A list of all his cameo appearances
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* Details of the cast and crew of each film taken from the various lists
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posted to r.a.movies.
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* Details of all Hitchcock's work available on NTSC LaserDisc
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HITCHCOCK FILMOGRAPHY
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Number 13 (1922) [unfinished]
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Pleasure Garden, The (1925)
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Mountain Eagle, The (1925) [no known surviving prints]
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Lodger, The (1926)
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Downhill (1927)
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Easy Virtue (1927)
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Ring, The (1927)
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Farmer's Wife, The (1928)
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Champagne (1928)
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Manxman, The (1929)
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Blackmail (1929)
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Elstree Calling (1930) [some sketches]
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Juno and the Paycock (1930)
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Murder! (1930)
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Skin Game, The (1931)
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Number Seventeen (1932)
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Rich and Strange (1932)
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Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
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Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
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Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1935)
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Secret Agent (1936)
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Sabotage (1936)
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Young and Innocent (1937)
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Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
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Jamaica Inn (1939)
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Rebecca (1940) [AAN]
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
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Suspicion (1941)
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Saboteur (1942)
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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Lifeboat (1943) [AAN]
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Bon Voyage (1944) [WWII propaganda film]
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Aventure Malgache (1944) [WWII propaganda film]
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Spellbound (1945) [AAN]
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Notorious (1946)
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Paradine Case, The (1947)
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Rope (1948)
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Under Capricorn (1949)
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Stage Fright (1950)
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
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I Confess (1953)
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
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Rear Window (1954) [AAN]
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
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Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
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Wrong Man, The (1956)
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Vertigo (1958)
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North by Northwest (1959)
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Psycho (1960) [AAN]
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Birds, The (1963)
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Marnie (1964)
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Torn Curtain (1966)
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Topaz (1969)
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Frenzy (1972)
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Family Plot (1976)
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HITCHCOCK FILMS SORTED BY RATINGS
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00.0001321 247 8.2 Rear Window
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0...001331 205 8.1 North by Northwest
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.0.0002221 251 8.0 Psycho
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0..0001311 189 7.9 Vertigo
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0.0.011221 93 7.8 Notorious (1946)
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000.011221 66 7.8 Rebecca
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0..0001310 62 7.7 Strangers on a Train
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0...001221 31 7.6 Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
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00.0.11220 51 7.6 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
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0...012220 93 7.6 To Catch a Thief
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.000012211 88 7.3 39 Steps, The (1935)
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00.0012220 102 7.3 Dial M for Murder (1954)
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..00012310 49 7.3 Spellbound
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0.00012210 215 7.2 Birds, The
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..00013210 48 7.2 Suspicion (1941)
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....10330. 26 7.1 I Confess
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00.0023110 80 7.0 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
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....01501. 16 7.0 Secret Agent
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..00023200 85 7.0 Trouble with Harry, The
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0.00012210 85 6.9 Rope
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0..011311. 28 6.8 Foreign Correspondent
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.000013210 65 6.8 Frenzy (1972)
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...1124.2. 10 6.7 Rich and Strange
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0...02320. 19 6.7 Wrong Man, The
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0000012100 71 6.6 Lifeboat
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0.0.02120. 27 6.5 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
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..01123000 64 6.5 Marnie
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.000023100 28 6.5 Torn Curtain
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..0..422.. 15 6.5 Young and Innocent
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0..00241.. 23 6.3 Saboteur
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....2330.. 12 6.2 Blackmail (1929)
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.1..133..1 9 6.2 Lodger, The (1926)
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...2222.2. 5 6.2 Manxman, The
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0..00341.. 20 6.2 Sabotage
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0000022100 64 6.1 Family Plot
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...01600.. 13 5.9 Jamaica Inn (1939)
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0.0.2140.. 15 5.9 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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.00010300. 13 5.9 Paradine Case, The
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0.00022.1. 14 5.9 Stage Fright (1950)
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0.0122010. 33 5.7 Topaz
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1.1.142.1. 10 5.6 Murder!
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.1..2211.. 7 5.6 Number Seventeen
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.002212... 13 5.0 Under Capricorn
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CAMEO APPEARANCES
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THE LODGER (1926): At a desk in a newsroom and later in the crowd watching
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an arrest.
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EASY VIRTUE (1927): Walking past a tennis court, carrying a walking stick.
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BLACKMAIL (1929): Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book in
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the subway.
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MURDER (1930): Walking past the house where the murder was committed, about
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an hour into the movie.
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THE 39 STEPS (1935): Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie
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Mannheim run from the theater, seven minutes into the movie.
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YOUNG AND INNOCENT (1938): Outside the courthouse, holding a camera.
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THE LADY VANISHES (1938): Very near the end of the movie, in Victoria
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Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
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REBECCA (1940): Walking near the phone booth in the final part of the film
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just after George Sanders makes a call.
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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940): Early in the movie, after Joel McCrea
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leaves his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper.
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MR. AND MRS. SMITH (1941): Midway through, passing Robert Montgomery in front
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of his building.
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SUSPICION (1941): mailing a letter at the village postbox about 45 minutes in.
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SABOTEUR (1942): Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the
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saboteur's car stops, an hour in.
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SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943): On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards.
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LIFEBOAT (1944): In the "before" and "after" pictures in the newspaper ad
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for Reduco Obesity Slayer.
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SPELLBOUND (1945): Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel,
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carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, 40 minutes in.
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NOTORIOUS (1946): At a big party in Claude Rains's mansion, drinking
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champae and then quickly departing, an hour after the film begins.
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THE PARADINE CASE (1947): Leaving the train and Cumberland Station,
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carrying a cello.
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ROPE (1948): His trademark can be seen briefly on a neon sign in the view
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from the apartment window.
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UNDER CAPRICORN (1949): In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue
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coat and brown hat, in the first five minutes. Ten minutes later, he is one
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of three men on the steps of Government House.
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STAGE FRIGHT (1950): Turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as
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Marlene Dietrich's maid.
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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951): Boarding a train with a double bass fiddle as
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Farley Granger gets off in his hometown, early in the film.
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I CONFESS (1953): Crossing the top of a staircase after the opening credits.
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DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954): On the left side of the class-reunion photo,
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thirteen minutes into the film.
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REAR WINDOW (1954): Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment, a half
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hour into the movie.
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TO CATCH A THIEF (1955): Ten minutes in, sitting to the left of Cary Grant
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on a bus.
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THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955): Walking past the parked limousine of an old
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man who is looking at paintings, twenty minutes into the film.
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THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956): Watching acrobats in the Moroccan
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marketplace (his back to the camera) just before the murder.
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THE WRONG MAN (1956): Narrating the film's prologue.
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VERTIGO (1958): In a gray suit walking in the street, eleven minutes in.
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Missing a bus during the opening credits.
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PSYCHO (1960): Four minutes in, through Janet Leigh's window as she returns
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to her office. He is wearing a cowboy hat.
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THE BIRDS (1963): Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers as Tippi
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Hedren enters.
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MARNIE (1964): Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi
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Hedren passes by, five minutes in.
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TORN CURTAIN (1966): Early in the film, sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre
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lobby with a blond baby.
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TOPAZ (1969): Being pushed in a wheelchair in an airport, half an hour in.
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Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to
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the right.
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FRENZY (1972): In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, three
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minutes into the film; he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
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FAMILY PLOT (1976): In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of
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Births and Deaths, 41 minutes into the movie.
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DETAILS ON EACH MOVIE
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This section was generated by version 2.6 of the movie database package (to
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be released soon) using the full list databases (also to be released soon).
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Version 2.5 of the database package and the main list databases are available
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via anonymouse FTP from boulder.colorado.edu [128.138.240.1] in the
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directory: pub/tv+movies/lists.
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KEY:
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(d) = director
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(w) = writer
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(m) = music
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(ph) = cinematographer
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(AA) = academy award
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(AAN) = academy award nomination
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(S:AAN) = academy award nomination for supporting actor/actress
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(GG) = golden globe award winner
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Title:
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.000012211 88 7.3 39 Steps, The (1935)
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Aka Titles:
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Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1935)
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Summary:
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Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance
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at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign
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agents. He takes her back to his appartment, but they are followed and
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later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the
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spy ring and thus prove his innocence.
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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Thriller Spy Road
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Writers:
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Charles Bennett
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John Buchan (novel)
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Alma Reville
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Composer:
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Hubert Bath
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Director of Photography:
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Bernard Knowles
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Cast:
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Peggy Ashcroft...................Margaret
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Madeleine Carroll................Pamela
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Frank Cellier....................Sheriff
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Robert Donat.....................Richard Hannay
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Helen Haye.......................Mrs. Jordan
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John Laurie......................John
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Gus MacNaughton..................Commercial Traveler
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Lucie Mannheim...................Annabella Smith
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Peggy Simpson....................Maid
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Godfrey Tearle...................Professor Jordan
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Jerry Verno......................Commercial Traveler
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Wylie Watson.....................Memory
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Trivia:
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- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 7 minutes in, tossing some litter as
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Robert Donat and Lucie Manheim run from the music hall.
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- The film was remade in 1959 and 1978.
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Title:
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Aventure Malagache (1944)
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock (WWII propaganda film)
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Title:
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0.00012210 215 7.2 Birds, The (1963)
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Summary:
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Spoilt socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping
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in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking
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to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognises
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Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her
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own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of
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Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother.
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Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just
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the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds.
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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Horror
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Writers:
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Daphne Du Maurier (story)
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Evan Hunter
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Composer:
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Bernard Herrmann (as consultant)
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Director of Photography:
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Robert Burks
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Cast:
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Malcolm Atterbury................Al Malone
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Morgan Brittany
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Veronica Cartwright..............Cathy Brenner
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Lonny Chapman....................Deke Carter
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Richard Deacon...................Man in Elevator
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Ethel Griffies...................Mrs. Bundy
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Tippi Hedren.....................Melanie Daniels
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Don Johnson
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Doreen Lang......................Mother in Cafe
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Joe Mantell......................Traveling Salesman
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Ruth McDevitt....................Mrs. MacGruder
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John McGovern....................Postal Clerk
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Charles McGraw...................Sebastian Sholes
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Suzanne Pleshette................Annie Hayworth
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Bill Quinn
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Karl Swenson.....................Drunk
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Jessica Tandy....................Lydia Brenner
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Rod Taylor.......................Mitch Brenner
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Doodles Weaver...................Fisherman
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Elizabeth Wilson.................Helen Carter
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Trivia:
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- Hitchcock make his cameo appearance at the start of the film walking two
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dogs past the pet shop (the dogs were actually his own).
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- Hitchcock tried to hire Joseph Stefano (writer of Psycho) to write the
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script, but he wasn't interested in the story.
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- Hitchcock spotted Tippi Hedren in a diet drink commercial.
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- The scene where Tippi Hedren is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie
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took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to Tippi's clothes by long
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nylon threads so they could not get away.
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- The film does not finish with the usual "THE END" title because Hitchcock
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wanted to give the impression of unending terror.
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....2330.. 12 6.2 Blackmail (1929)
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Summary:
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Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend,
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Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in
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police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one night, but she has
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secretly arranged to meet another man. Later that night Alice agrees to go
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back to his flat to see his studio. The man has other ideas and as he tries
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to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him with a bread knife. When
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the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the case, he quickly
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determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else and blackmail
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is threatened.
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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Thriller Blackmail Murder
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Writers:
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Charles Bennett (also play)
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Benn W. Levy
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Director of Photography:
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Jack Cox
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Cast:
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Sara Allgood.....................Mrs. White
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Joan Barry (voice)...............Voice of Alice White
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Harvey Braban....................Chief Inspector
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Donald Calthrop..................Tracy
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Hannah Jones.....................The Landlady
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Phyllis Konstam
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John Longden.....................Frank Webber
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Anny Ondra.......................Alice White
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Charles Paton....................Mr. White
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Cyril Ritchard...................The Artist
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John Stuart
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Trivia:
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- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance being bothered by a small boy on the
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subway.
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- The film was Hitchcock's and England's first talking picture.
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- Anny Ondra's voice was dubbed by Joan Barry because she had a thick German
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accent. Barry had to stand just of the set and read Ondra's lines into a
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microphone as the film was shot.
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Title:
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......*... 2 7.0 Bon Voyage (1944)
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock (WWII propaganda film)
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Title:
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....5.5... 2 6.0 Champagne (1928)
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Summary:
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A spoilt rich girl leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father's
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champagne business. To bring her back down to earth he tells her that all
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the money has been lost so she goes to seek her fortune.
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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Comedy Silent
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Writer:
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Eliot Stannard
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Director of Photography:
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Jack Cox
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Cast:
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Betty Balfour....................Betty
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Jean Bradin......................The Boy
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Gordon Harker....................The Father
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Phyllis Konstam
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Jack Trevor
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Marcel Vibert
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Theo Von Alten...................The Man
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Title:
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00.0012220 102 7.3 Dial M for Murder (1954)
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Summary:
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Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and
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because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college
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associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn
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events to his advantage.
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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Thriller Mystery
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Writer:
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Frederick Knott (also play)
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Composer:
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Dmitri Tiomkin
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Director of Photography:
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Robert Burks
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Cast:
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George Alderson..................First Detective
|
|
Patrick Allen....................Pearson
|
|
Leo Britt........................The Storyteller
|
|
Sanders Clark....................Detective
|
|
Robert Cummings..................Mark Halliday
|
|
Anthony Dawson...................Captain Lesgate
|
|
Robert Dobson....................Police Photographer
|
|
Guy Doleman......................Detective
|
|
Sam Harris.......................Man in Phone Booth
|
|
Robin Hughes.....................Police Sergeant
|
|
Grace Kelly......................Margot Wendice
|
|
George Leigh.....................Williams
|
|
Ray Milland......................Tony Wendice
|
|
Thayer Roberts...................Detective
|
|
John (I) Williams................Inspector Hubbard
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|
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|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 13 minutes into the film, on the left
|
|
side of the reunion photograph.
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|
|
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- The movie was shot in 3-D although it was never released that way until
|
|
after Hitchcock's death.
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|
|
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- Hitchcock arranged to have Grace Kelly dressed in bright colours at the
|
|
start of the film and made them progressively darker as time goes on.
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|
Title:
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|
....55.... 2 5.5 Downhill (1927)
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|
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|
Summary:
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|
Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the
|
|
blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of
|
|
misadventures.
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|
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Summary by:
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|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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|
Drama Silent
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|
|
|
Director:
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|
Alfred Hitchcock
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|
|
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Writers:
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|
Constance Collier (play)
|
|
Ivor Novello (play)
|
|
Eliot Stannard
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Claude McDonnell
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Annette Benson
|
|
Lilian Braithwaite...............Lady Berwick
|
|
Violet Farebrother
|
|
Alfred Goddard
|
|
Barbara Gott
|
|
Ian Hunter.......................Archie
|
|
Robin Irvine.....................Tim Wakely
|
|
Isabel Jeans.....................Julia
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|
Hannah Jones
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|
Norman McKinnel
|
|
Ivor Novello.....................Roddy Berwick
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|
Sybil Rhoda......................Sybil Wakely
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|
Jerrold Robertshaw
|
|
Ben Webster......................Doctor Dowson
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|
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|
|
Title:
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|
..3..33... 3 5.3 Easy Virtue (1927)
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|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She
|
|
escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker.
|
|
They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's
|
|
secret.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama Silent
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Noel Coward (play)
|
|
Eliot Stannard
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Claude McDonnell
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Dorothy Boyd
|
|
Darcia Deane
|
|
Franklin Dyall
|
|
Frank Elliot
|
|
Violet Farebrother...............Mrs. Whittaker
|
|
Benita Hume
|
|
Ian Hunter.......................Council for the Plaintiff
|
|
Robin Irvine.....................John Whittaker
|
|
Isabel Jeans.....................Larita Filton
|
|
Bessie Love
|
|
Eric Bransby Williams............The Artist
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance walking past a tennis court carrying
|
|
a walking stick.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
.5..5..... 2 3.5 Elstree Calling (1930)
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (some sketches)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
John Stuart
|
|
Jameson Thomas
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0000022100 64 6.1 Family Plot (1976)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Fake medium Madam Blanche and her taxi driver boyfriend make a living from
|
|
her phoney powers. They are hired by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird to find
|
|
her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier following a
|
|
family scandal. Meanwhile, an extremely clever couple are behind a series of
|
|
kidnappings in the San Francisco area. The two couples path's cross and
|
|
chaos results in Hitchcock's last film.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Comedy
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writer:
|
|
Ernest Lehman
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
John (II) Williams
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Leonard J. South
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Edith Atwater....................Mrs. Clay
|
|
Karen Black......................Fran
|
|
Nicholas Colasanto...............Constantine
|
|
Bruce Dern.......................George Lumley
|
|
William Devane...................Arthur Adamson
|
|
Barbara Harris...................Blanche Tyler
|
|
Katherine Helmond................Mrs. Maloney
|
|
Warren J. Kemmerling.............Grandison
|
|
Ed Lauter........................Joseph Maloney
|
|
John Lehne.......................Andy Bush
|
|
Alexander Lockwood...............Pastor
|
|
Cathleen Nesbitt.................Julia Rainbird
|
|
William Prince...................Bishop
|
|
Marge Redmond....................Vera Hannagan
|
|
Charles Tyner....................Wheeler
|
|
Martin West......................Sanger
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in silhouette 45 minutes into the film
|
|
behind the door at the registrar of births and deaths.
|
|
|
|
- Roy Thinnes was originally hired to play William Devane's character, but
|
|
Hitchcock was dissatisfied with his performance and fired him one month
|
|
into the filming.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
...33...3. 3 6.0 Farmer's Wife, The (1928)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again
|
|
and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the
|
|
local single women.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Comedy Silent
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Leslie Arliss
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
J.E. Hunter
|
|
Norman Lee
|
|
Eden Philpotts (play)
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Antonia Brough
|
|
Maud Gill........................Thirza Tapper
|
|
Lillian Hall-Davies
|
|
Gordon Harker....................Churdles Ash
|
|
Louise Pounds
|
|
Olga Slade
|
|
Jameson Thomas...................Farmer Sweetland
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0..011311. 28 6.8 Foreign Correspondent (1940)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor
|
|
appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry,
|
|
reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside
|
|
story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the
|
|
famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to plan and Jones
|
|
enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Spy
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Robert Benchley
|
|
Charles Bennett (SO:AAN)
|
|
Joan Harrison (SO:AAN)
|
|
James Hilton
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Alfred Newman
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Rudolph Mate (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Albert Basserman (S:AAN).........Van Meer
|
|
Robert Benchley..................Stebbins
|
|
Barry Bernard....................Steward
|
|
John Burton......................English Announcer
|
|
Frances Carson...................Mrs. Sprague
|
|
Edward Ciannelli.................Mr. Krug
|
|
E.E. Clive
|
|
Edward Conrad....................Latvian
|
|
Harry Davenport..................Mr. Powers
|
|
Laraine Day......................Carol Fisher
|
|
Roy Gordon.......................Mr. Brood
|
|
Edmund Gwenn.....................Rowley
|
|
Charles Halton...................Bradley
|
|
Holmes Herbert...................Asst. Commissioner
|
|
Gertrude Hoffman.................Mrs. Benson
|
|
Martin Kosleck...................Tramp
|
|
Martin Lamont....................Plane Captain
|
|
Eily Malyon
|
|
Herbert Marshall.................Stephen Fisher
|
|
Joel McCrea......................Johnny Jones/Huntley Haverstock
|
|
Leonard Mudie....................McKenna
|
|
Emory Parnell....................Mohican Captain
|
|
Barbara Pepper...................Dorine
|
|
George Sanders...................Scott ffolliott
|
|
Charles Wagenheim................Assassin
|
|
Ian Wolfe........................Stiles
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the movie walking past Joel
|
|
McCrea's hotel reading a newspaper.
|
|
|
|
- Albert Basserman who played the Dutch diplomat Van Meer couldn't speak a
|
|
word of English and learnt all his lines phonetically.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
.000013210 65 6.8 Frenzy (1972)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie
|
|
murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck
|
|
Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on
|
|
the run, determined to prove his innocence.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Serial_Killer
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (GGN)
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Arthur La Bern (novel)
|
|
Anthony Shaffer
|
|
|
|
Composers:
|
|
Ron Goodwin
|
|
Henry Mancini
|
|
|
|
Directors of Photography:
|
|
Leonard J. South
|
|
Gilbert Taylor
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Michael Bates....................Sergeant Spearman
|
|
John Boxer.......................Sir George
|
|
Bernard Cribbins.................Felix Forsythe
|
|
June Ellis.......................Barmaid
|
|
Jon Finch........................Richard Blaney
|
|
Barry Foster.....................Bob Rusk
|
|
Jimmy Gardner....................Hotel Porter
|
|
Noel Johnson.....................Man at Bar
|
|
Robert Keegan....................Hospital Patient
|
|
Barbara Leigh-Hunt...............Brenda Blaney
|
|
Jean Marsh.......................Monica Barling
|
|
Anna Massey......................Babs Milligan
|
|
Bunny May........................Barman
|
|
Alec McCowen.....................Inspector Oxford
|
|
Vivien Merchant..................Mrs. Oxford
|
|
Elsie Randolph...................Gladys
|
|
Madge Ryan.......................Mrs. Davison
|
|
Gerald Sim.......................Man at Bar
|
|
Clive Swift......................Johnny Porter
|
|
George Tovey.....................Mr. Salt
|
|
Rita Webb........................Mrs. Rusk
|
|
Billie Whitelaw..................Hettie Porter
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the first moments of the film in
|
|
the crowd - he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
|
|
|
|
- Elsie Randolph who plays a worker at the hotel last appeared in a Hitchcock
|
|
film 40 years earlier as the old maid in 1932's Rich and Strange.
|
|
|
|
- This was the first film Hitchcock shot in England since 1950's Stage Fright.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
....10330. 26 7.1 I Confess (1953)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a
|
|
Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works
|
|
as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he
|
|
heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto
|
|
confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan he
|
|
cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Paul Anthelme (play)
|
|
William Archibald
|
|
George Tabori
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Dmitri Tiomkin
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Brian Aherne.....................Willy Robertson
|
|
Charles Andre....................Father Millars
|
|
Anne Baxter......................Ruth Grandfort
|
|
Montgomery Clift.................Father Michael Logan
|
|
Roger Dann.......................Pierre Grandfort
|
|
Dolly Haas.......................Alma Keller
|
|
O.E. Hasse.......................Otto Keller
|
|
Ovila Legare.....................Villette
|
|
Karl Malden......................Inspector Larrue
|
|
Gilles Pelletier.................Father Benoit
|
|
Judson Pratt.....................Murphy
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance crossing the top of a staircase during
|
|
the opening credits.
|
|
|
|
- Anne Baxter was one of the actresses tested by Hitchcock for the leading
|
|
role in Rebecca (she was 16 at the time).
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
...01600.. 13 5.9 Jamaica Inn (1939)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Irish orphan girl Mary is sent to stay with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss in
|
|
Cornwall. Joss is the landlord of Jamaica Inn and also the head of a
|
|
gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. Mary soon
|
|
finds herself in trouble when she discovers the truth.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Daphne Du Maurier (novel)
|
|
Sidney Gilliat
|
|
Joan Harrison
|
|
J.B. Priestley
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Eric Fenby
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Harry Stradling Sr.
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Leslie Banks.....................Joss Merlyn
|
|
George Curzon
|
|
William Devlin
|
|
Morland Graham
|
|
Edwin Greenwood
|
|
Clare Greet
|
|
Stephen Haggard
|
|
Horace Hodges....................Butler
|
|
Mervyn Johns.....................Thomas
|
|
Charles Laughton.................Sir Humphrey Pengallan
|
|
Mabel Terry Lewis
|
|
Herbert Lomas
|
|
Robert Newton
|
|
Marie Ney........................Patience
|
|
Maureen O'Hara...................Mary
|
|
Hay Petrie.......................Groom
|
|
Frederick Piper..................Broker
|
|
Basil Radford
|
|
Wylie Watson.....................Salvation
|
|
Emlyn Williams...................Harr
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
...3.33... 3 5.7 Juno and the Paycock (1930)
|
|
|
|
Aka Titles:
|
|
Shame of Mary Boyle, The
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
A poor Dublin family gets into trouble during the uprising of the 1920s
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
Sean O'Casey (play)
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Sara Allgood.....................Juno
|
|
Edward Chapman...................Captain Boyle
|
|
John Laurie
|
|
John Longden
|
|
Sidney Morgan....................Joxer
|
|
Dave Morris
|
|
Maire O'Neill....................Mrs. Madigan
|
|
Kathleen O'Regan
|
|
Fred Schwartz
|
|
Dennis Wyndham
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0...001221 31 7.6 Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Travellers on a trans-European train are delayed for a night due to bad
|
|
weather in an unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village
|
|
hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss
|
|
Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Railway
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Sidney Gilliat
|
|
Frank Launder
|
|
Ethel Lina White (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Louis Levy
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Emile Boreo......................Hotel Manager
|
|
Mary Clare.......................Baroness
|
|
Catherine Lacey..................The Nun
|
|
Phillip Leaver...................Signor Doppo
|
|
Margaret Lockwood................Iris Henderson
|
|
Paul Lukas.......................Dr. Hartz
|
|
Charles Oliver...................The Officer
|
|
Cecil Parker.....................Mr. Todhunter
|
|
Basil Radford....................Charters
|
|
Michael Redgrave.................Gilbert
|
|
Sally Stewart....................Julie
|
|
Linden Travers...................Margaret
|
|
Kathleen Tremaine................Anna
|
|
Zelma Vas Dias...................Signora Doppo
|
|
Naunton Wayne....................Caldicott
|
|
May Whitty.......................Miss Froy
|
|
Josephine Wilson.................Madame Kummer
|
|
Googie Withers...................Blanche
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance near the end of the movie at Victoria
|
|
Station wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
|
|
|
|
- The movie was remade in 1979.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0000012100 71 6.6 Lifeboat (1944)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a
|
|
battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the
|
|
boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist,
|
|
a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and
|
|
an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull
|
|
a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller War
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
John Steinbeck (story) (StO:AAN)
|
|
Jo Swerling
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Hugo Friedhofer
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Glen MacWilliams (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Mary Anderson....................Alice MacKenzie
|
|
Heather Angel....................Mrs. Higgins
|
|
Tallulah Bankhead................Constance Porter
|
|
William Bendix...................Gus
|
|
Hume Cronyn......................Stanley Garrett
|
|
John Hodiak......................John Kovac
|
|
Henry Hull.......................Charles "Ritt" Rittenhouse
|
|
Canada Lee.......................George "Joe" Spencer
|
|
Walter Slezak....................Willy: the German
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in "before" and "after" pictures in a
|
|
newspaper advert for Reduco the Obesity slayer. The pictures were genuine
|
|
as Hitch had just been on a crash diet (although not with the fictional
|
|
Reduco).
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Title:
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.1..133..1 9 6.2 Lodger, The (1926)
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Summary:
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A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering
|
|
blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting
|
|
looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and
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is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes
|
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jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect he may be the avenger.
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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Thriller Serial_Killer Silent
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Writers:
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|
Marie Belloc-Lowndes (novel)
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
Eliot Stannard
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|
|
|
Director of Photography:
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|
Baron Ventimiglia
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|
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|
Cast:
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|
Marie Ault.......................Mrs. Bunting
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|
Arthur Chesny....................Mr. Bunting
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|
June.............................Daisy Bunting
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|
Malcolm Keen.....................Joe Betts
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|
Ivor Novello.....................The Lodger
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Trivia:
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|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance at a desk in the newsroom early in the
|
|
film. Some people claim he also appears later in the crowd watching the
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|
arrest.
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|
|
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- Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film, but the studio wouldn't
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|
allow it to be implied that Ivor Novello might actually be the murderer.
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Title:
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0.0.02120. 27 6.5 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
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Summary:
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Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a winter sports holiday with their teenage
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|
daughter Betty. When their friend Louis Bernard is shot whilst dancing with
|
|
Jill, he tells Bob of an assassination about to take place in London.
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|
Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Betty in
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|
order to keep the Lawrence's quiet. Bob and Jill return to London and take
|
|
matters into their own hands.
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|
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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|
Genres:
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|
Thriller Kidnap Assassination
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|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
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|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Charles Bennett
|
|
Edwin Greenwood
|
|
A.R. Rawlinson
|
|
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
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|
Composer:
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|
Arthur Benjamin
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|
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|
Cast:
|
|
Leslie Banks.....................Bob Lawrence
|
|
Edna Best........................Jill Lawrence
|
|
George Curzon
|
|
Pierre Fresnay...................Louis Bernard
|
|
Peter Lorre......................Abbott
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|
Cicely Oates.....................Nurse Agnes
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|
Nova Pilbeam.....................Betty Lawrence
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|
Frank Vosper.....................Ramon
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|
Hugh Wakefield...................Clive
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|
|
Title:
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|
00.0023110 80 7.0 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
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|
Summary:
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|
Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of
|
|
Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day
|
|
Bernard is murdered in the local marketplace, but before he dies he manages
|
|
to reveal details of an assassination about to take place in London.
|
|
Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Hank in order
|
|
to keep the McKenna's silent. Ben and Jo go to London and take matters into
|
|
their own hands.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Kidnap Assassination
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
John Michael Hayes
|
|
Angus MacPhail
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Bernard Herrmann
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Patrick Aherne...................Handyman
|
|
Betty Bascomb....................Edna
|
|
Yves Brainville
|
|
Hillary Brooke...................Jan Peterson
|
|
Doris Day........................Jo McKenna
|
|
Brenda De Banzie.................Mrs. Drayton
|
|
Daniel Gelin.....................Louis Bernard
|
|
Leo V. Gordon....................Chauffer
|
|
Carolyn Jones....................Cindy Fontaine
|
|
Lewis Martin
|
|
Louis Mercier
|
|
Bernard Miles....................Mr. Drayton
|
|
Alan Mowbray.....................Val Parnell
|
|
Reggie Nalder....................The assassin
|
|
Christopher Olsen................Hank McKenna
|
|
James Stewart....................Dr. Ben McKenna
|
|
Alix Talton
|
|
Ralph Truman.....................Buchanan
|
|
Anthony Warde
|
|
Richard Wattis
|
|
Magens Wieth.....................Ambassador
|
|
Noel Willman
|
|
Richard Wordsworth
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the Moroccan marketplace watching
|
|
the acrobats with his back to the camera just before the murder.
|
|
|
|
- Bernard Herrmann (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting the
|
|
orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.
|
|
|
|
- The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of dialogue
|
|
and consists of 124 shots.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
...2222.2. 5 6.2 Manxman, The (1929)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Despite their differing backgrounds, fisherman Pete and lawyer Philip have
|
|
been life long friends on the Isle of Man. Pete wants to marry Kate, the
|
|
landlord's daughter at the local inn, however Kate's father doesn't think
|
|
he is good enough. Pete leaves the island to seek his fortune abroad and
|
|
entrusts Kate to Philip, but they start to be attracted to each other.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Romance Silent
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Hall Caine (novel)
|
|
Eliot Stannard
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Randle Ayrton....................Kate's Father
|
|
Carl Brisson.....................Pete
|
|
Clare Greet
|
|
Malcolm Keen.....................Philip
|
|
Anny Ondra.......................Kate
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
..01123000 64 6.5 Marnie (1964)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Marnie Edgar is an ice-cold habitual thief. She uses her looks to gain the
|
|
confidence of her employers, robs them, and changes her identity. Her only
|
|
loves are her horse and her mother, although she has problems with the
|
|
latter relationship. Marnie applies for a job at Mark Rutland's Philadelphia
|
|
publishing company. Mark recognises her since he is a client of her last
|
|
employer, but instead of turning her in, he decides to watch her.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Psychoanalysis
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Jay Presson Allen
|
|
Winston Graham (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Bernard Herrmann
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Diane Baker......................Lil Mainwaring
|
|
Henry Beckman....................First Detective
|
|
Morgan Brittany
|
|
Sean Connery.....................Mark Rutland
|
|
Bruce Dern.......................Sailor
|
|
Edith Evanson....................Rita
|
|
Martin Gabel.....................Sidney Strutt
|
|
Mariette Hartley.................Susan Clabon
|
|
Tippi Hedren.....................Marnie Edgar
|
|
Louise Latham....................Bernice Edgar
|
|
S. John Launer...................Sam Ward
|
|
Alan Napier......................Mr. Rutland
|
|
Milton Selzer....................Man at Track
|
|
Bob Sweeney......................Cousin Bob
|
|
Meg Wyllie.......................Mrs. Turpin
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 5 minutes into the film, in the hotel
|
|
corridor as Tippi Hedren walks by.
|
|
|
|
- The production company created for the film, "Geoffrey Stanley" was named
|
|
after Hitchcock's pet dogs.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren had a major falling out during the filming and
|
|
by the end he directed her through intermediaries.
|
|
|
|
- Bruce Dern can be seen briefly as the sailor in Marnie's flashback.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock wanted Grace Kelly to make her screen come back in the title role,
|
|
but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their princess
|
|
playing a compulsive thief.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
....5.5... 2 6.0 Mountain Eagle, The (1925)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent
|
|
schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama Silent
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writer:
|
|
Eliot Stannard
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Baron Ventimiglia
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Bernard Goetzke..................Pettigrew
|
|
John Hamilton....................Edward
|
|
Malcolm Keen.....................Fear o' God
|
|
Nita Naldi.......................Beatrice
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- No prints of this film (Hitchcock's second) are known to have survived and
|
|
no one has seen it since the late 1920s.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
0.0.2140.. 15 5.9 Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage
|
|
with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them
|
|
to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer
|
|
completely honestly. Annie asks David if he would marry her again if he
|
|
could have the time over again and David confides that he misses his freedom
|
|
and so probably wouldn't. Later that day, an official from the town where
|
|
they got married calls to see David. He explains that owing to a state
|
|
boundary dispute, all couples married between 1936 and 1939 in the county
|
|
where not legally married. David decides to have fun with this fact, but
|
|
unbeknown to him, the county official calls to see Annie too and disaster
|
|
results.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Comedy Screwball
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writer:
|
|
Norman Krasna
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Edward Ward
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Harry Stradling Sr.
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Murray Alper
|
|
Jack Carson......................Chuck Benson
|
|
Betty Compson....................Gertie
|
|
Esther Dale......................Mrs. Krausheimer
|
|
Emma Dunn........................Martha
|
|
William Edmunds..................Proprietor
|
|
Patricia Farr....................Gloria
|
|
James Flavin
|
|
Charles Halton...................Mr. Deever
|
|
Sam Harris
|
|
Carole Lombard...................Ann Krausheimer Smith
|
|
Philip Merivale..................Mr. Custer
|
|
Robert Montgomery................David Smith
|
|
Adele Pearce.....................Lily
|
|
Gene Raymond.....................Jeff Custer
|
|
William Tracy....................Sammy
|
|
Lucile Watson....................Mrs. Custer
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about half way through the movie passing
|
|
Robert Montgomery in front of his building
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock's only screwball comedy. He was talked into directing it by Carole
|
|
Lombard.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
1.1.142.1. 10 5.6 Murder! (1930)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
An actress in a travelling theatre group is murdered and Diana Baring,
|
|
another member of the group is found suffering from amnesia standing by
|
|
the body. Diana is tried and convicted of the murder, but Sir John Menier
|
|
a famous actor on the jury is convinced of her innocence. Sir John sets out
|
|
to find the real murderer before Diana's death sentence is carried out.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Mystery
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Clemence Dane (novel)
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
Helen Simpson (novel)
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Nora Baring......................Diana Baring
|
|
Matthew Boulton
|
|
Donald Calthrop..................Ian Stewart
|
|
Esme V. Chaplin
|
|
Edward Chapman...................Ted Markham
|
|
Robert Easton
|
|
Violet Farebrother
|
|
William Fazan
|
|
Clare Greet
|
|
Ross Jefferson
|
|
R.E. Jeffrey
|
|
Hannah Jones
|
|
Phyllis Konstam..................Dulcie Markham
|
|
Kenneth Kove
|
|
Miles Mander.....................Gordon Druce
|
|
Herbert Marshall.................Sir John Menier
|
|
Una O'Connor
|
|
Guy Pelham
|
|
Esme Percy.......................Handel Fane
|
|
Joynson Powell
|
|
George Smythson
|
|
Alan Stainer
|
|
Amy Brandon Thomas
|
|
Drusilla Vills
|
|
S.J. Warmington
|
|
Marie Wright
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance an hour into the movie walking past the
|
|
house where the murder was committed.
|
|
|
|
- A German version called "Mary" was filmed at the same time using German
|
|
actors, but the same sets.
|
|
|
|
- The scene where Herbert Marshall thinks out loud in front of a mirror had to
|
|
be filmed with a recording of Marshall's lines and an orchestra hidden
|
|
behind the set as it was not possible to dub the soundtrack later.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
0...001331 205 8.1 North by Northwest (1959)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is
|
|
mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a
|
|
series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies
|
|
and the government whilst being helped by a beautiful blonde.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Comedy Road
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writer:
|
|
Ernest Lehman (SSS:AAN)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Bernard Herrmann
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Malcolm Atterbury
|
|
Edward Binns
|
|
Leo G. Carroll...................The Professor
|
|
Philip Coolidge..................Dr. Cross
|
|
Robert Ellenstein................Licht
|
|
Ned Glass
|
|
Cary Grant.......................Roger Thornhill
|
|
Josephine Hutchinson.............Handsome Woman
|
|
Martin Landau....................Leonard
|
|
Jessie Royce Landis..............Clara Thornhill
|
|
Doreen Lang
|
|
Nora Marlowe
|
|
James Mason......................Phillip Vandamm
|
|
Pat McVey
|
|
Philip Ober......................Lester Townsend
|
|
Edward Platt.....................Victor Larrabee
|
|
Eva Marie Saint..................Eve Kendall
|
|
Olon Soule.......................Assistant Auctioneer
|
|
Les Tremayne.....................Auctioneer
|
|
Adam Williams....................Valerian
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance missing a bus at the end of the opening
|
|
credits.
|
|
|
|
- Jessie Royce Landis played Cary Grant's mother, yet he was 10 months
|
|
older than her.
|
|
|
|
- The shot of Cary Grant entering the UN building had to be filmed with a
|
|
hidden camera as Hitchcock wasn't able to get permission to shoot there.
|
|
|
|
- At one point the movie's title was to be "The Man in Lincoln's Nose",
|
|
referring to the final chase sequence on Mount Rushmore.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
0.0.011221 93 7.8 Notorious (1946)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S.,
|
|
Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government
|
|
agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi
|
|
friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia
|
|
and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Romance Spy
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writer:
|
|
Ben Hecht (SO:AAN)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Roy Webb
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Ted Tetzlaff
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Fay Baker........................Ethel
|
|
Bernice Barrett..................Clerk
|
|
Bea Benadaret....................Clerk
|
|
Ingrid Bergman...................Alicia Huberman
|
|
Candido Bonsato..................Waiter
|
|
Charles D. Brown.................Judge
|
|
Wally Brown......................Mr. Hopkins
|
|
Eddie Bruce......................Reporter
|
|
Paul Bryan.......................Reporter
|
|
Louis Calhern....................Paul Prescott
|
|
Aileen Carlyle...................Woman
|
|
Beulah Christian.................Woman
|
|
Richard Clark....................Man
|
|
Tom Coleman......................Court Stenographer
|
|
Ricardo Costa....................Dr. Barbosa
|
|
Lester Dorr......................Motorcycle Police
|
|
Ben Erway........................Reporter
|
|
Alameda Fowler...................Woman
|
|
Gavin Gordon.....................Ernest Weylin
|
|
William Gordon...................Adams
|
|
Cary Grant.......................T.R. Devlin
|
|
Virginia Gregg...................Clerk
|
|
Harry Hayden.....................Defence Council
|
|
Warren Jackson...................District Attorney
|
|
Ted Kelly........................Waiter
|
|
Don Kerr.........................Reporter
|
|
Leopoldine Konstantin............Madame Sebastian
|
|
Eberhard Krumschmidt.............Hupka
|
|
Frederick Ledebur................Knerr
|
|
James Logan......................Reporter
|
|
Leota Lorraine...................Woman
|
|
George Lynn......................Photographer
|
|
Frank Marlow.....................Photographer
|
|
Frank McDonald...................Man
|
|
Tina Menard......................Maid
|
|
Charles Mendl....................Commodore
|
|
Alex Minotis.....................Joseph
|
|
Howard Mitchell..................Bailiff
|
|
Antonio Moreno...................Senor Ortiza
|
|
Howard Negley....................Photographer
|
|
Roman Nomar......................Dr. Silva
|
|
Fred Nurney......................Huberman
|
|
Moroni Olsen.....................Walter Beardsley
|
|
Garry Owen.......................Motorcycle Police
|
|
Claude Rains (S:AAN).............Alexander Sebastian
|
|
Reinhold Schunzel................Dr. Anderson
|
|
Luis Serrano.....................Dr. Silva
|
|
Patricia Smart...................Mrs. Jackson
|
|
Ivan Triesault...................Eric Mathis
|
|
Dink Trout.......................Court Clerk
|
|
John Vasper......................Reporter
|
|
Emmett Vogan.....................Reporter
|
|
Peter Von Zerneck................Rossner
|
|
Alan Ward........................Reporter
|
|
Lillian West.....................Woman
|
|
Frank Wilcox.....................F.B.I. agent
|
|
Herbert Wyndham..................Mr. Cook
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about an hour in, drinking champagne
|
|
at the party in Claude Rains' mansion
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock claimed that the FBI had him under surveillance for three months
|
|
because the film dealt with Uranium for the A-bomb.
|
|
|
|
- The films producer, David O. Selznick had originally wanted Vivien Leigh
|
|
for Ingrid Bergman's role.
|
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- The original story, "The Song of the Dragon" was first published in the
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Saturday Evening Post in November 1921.
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- It was remade in 1992 as a TV-movie.
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Title:
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|
.....5.5.. 2 7.0 Number 13 (1922)
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock (unfinished)
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|
Title:
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|
.1..2211.. 7 5.6 Number Seventeen (1932)
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|
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|
Summary:
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A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a
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|
detective is on their trail.
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Summary by:
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Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Genres:
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|
Thriller
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Director:
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|
Alfred Hitchcock
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Writers:
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|
Jefferson Farjeon (novel)
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
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|
|
|
Director of Photography:
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|
Jack Cox
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Cast:
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|
Henry Caine
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|
Donald Calthrop
|
|
Ann Casson
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|
Anne Grey........................The Girl
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Barry Jones
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|
Leon M. Lion.....................Ben
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|
Garry Marsh
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John Stuart......................The Detective
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|
|
Title:
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|
.00010300. 13 5.9 Paradine Case, The (1947)
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|
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|
Summary:
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|
The beautiful Mrs. Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind
|
|
husband. She hires married Anthony Keane as her lawyer and when he begins to
|
|
fall in love with her, she encourages him.
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|
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|
Summary by:
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|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama Courtroom
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Robert Hichens (novel)
|
|
David O. Selznick
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Franz Waxman
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Lee Garmes
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Patrick Aherne
|
|
Ethel Barrymore (S:AAN)..........Lady Horfield
|
|
Leo G. Carroll...................Council for the Prosecution
|
|
Charles Coburn...................Sir Simon Flaquer
|
|
Isobel Elsom
|
|
John Goldsworthy
|
|
Colin Hunter
|
|
Louis Jourdan....................Andre Latour
|
|
Charles Laughton.................Lord Horfield
|
|
Lester Matthews
|
|
Gregory Peck.....................Anthony Keane
|
|
Ann Todd.........................Gay Keane
|
|
Alida Valli......................Mrs. Paradine
|
|
John (I) Williams
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance getting off a train at the Cumberland
|
|
station carrying a cello (see also his cameo in Strangers on a Train).
|
|
|
|
- An exact replica of the Old Bailey courtroom was constructed for
|
|
the court scenes.
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
Title:
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|
.5..5..... 2 3.5 Pleasure Garden, The (1925)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets
|
|
Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill
|
|
meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels
|
|
out of the country, she begins to play around.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama Silent
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Oliver Sandys (novel)
|
|
Eliot Stannard
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Baron Ventimiglia
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
C. Falkenburg
|
|
Carmelita Geraghty...............Jill Cheyne
|
|
Florence Helminger
|
|
Miles Mander.....................Levett
|
|
Frederick Martini
|
|
Nita Naldi.......................Native
|
|
George Snell
|
|
John Stuart......................Hugh Fielding
|
|
Virginia Valli...................Patsy Brand
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock's first film was almost doomed when Austrian customs officials
|
|
confiscated the film stock on the journey to do some location shooting.
|
|
|
|
- Although shot a year before, the film wasn't actually released until
|
|
after "The Lodger" was a massive hit.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
.0.0002221 251 8.0 Psycho (1960)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated
|
|
her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get
|
|
married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One
|
|
Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the
|
|
opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and
|
|
heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught
|
|
in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel.
|
|
The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be
|
|
dominated by his mother.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Horror Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Robert Bloch (novel)
|
|
Joseph Stefano
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Bernard Herrmann
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
John L. Russell (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Frank Albertson..................Tom Cassidy
|
|
John Anderson....................California Charlie
|
|
Martin Balsam....................Milton Arbogast
|
|
John Gavin.......................Sam Loomis
|
|
Virginia Gregg...................Voice of mother
|
|
Patricia Hitchcock...............Caroline
|
|
Paul Jasmin......................Voice of Mother
|
|
Ted Knight.......................Prison Guard
|
|
Janet Leigh (S:AAN) (S:GG).......Marion Crane
|
|
John McIntire....................Sheriff Chambers
|
|
Vera Miles.......................Lila Crane
|
|
Mort Mills.......................Highway Patrolman
|
|
Jeanette Nolan...................Voice of Mother
|
|
Simon Oakland....................Dr. Richmond
|
|
Anthony Perkins..................Norman Bates
|
|
Vaughn Taylor....................George Lowery
|
|
Lurene Tuttle....................Mrs. Chambers
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 4 minutes in wearing a cowboy hat
|
|
outside Janet Leigh's office.
|
|
|
|
- The film only cost $800,000 to make yet has earned more than $40,000,000.
|
|
Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money. In
|
|
1962 exchanged the rights to the film and his TV-series for a huge block
|
|
of MCA's stock (he became their third largest stockholder).
|
|
|
|
- Robert Bloch's original novel was inspired by the notorious serial killer
|
|
Ed Gein who was also one of the inspirations for the character of Hannibal
|
|
Lector (The Silence of the Lambs/Manhunter).
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for
|
|
just $9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to
|
|
keep the ending a secret.
|
|
|
|
- The shower scene has over 90 splices in it, and was not directed by Alfred
|
|
Hitchcock. The production designer [?] had such a good idea for the scene
|
|
that Hitchcock let him direct it.
|
|
|
|
- During the shooting of the shower scene, Hitchcock arranged for the water to
|
|
suddenly go ice-cold when the attack started.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock originally envisioned the shower sequence as completely silent,
|
|
but Bernard Herrmann went ahead and scored it anyway and Hitch immediately
|
|
changed his mind.
|
|
|
|
- The blood in the shower scene is actually chocolate sauce.
|
|
|
|
- The shot of Janet Leigh flushing the toilet is believed to be the first
|
|
such shot in American cinema history.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock tested the "fear factor" of mother's corpse by placing it in
|
|
Janet Leigh's dressing room and listening to how loud she screamed when
|
|
she discovered it.
|
|
|
|
- There is a rumor that the MPAA refused to pass this film because they
|
|
claimed to be able to see Janet Leigh's nipple during the shower scene.
|
|
Hitchcock didn't edit it out, but merely sent it back, (correctly, it seems)
|
|
assuming that they either wouldn't bother to watch it, or miss it the second
|
|
time.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock insisted that audiences should only be allowed to see the film
|
|
from the start so as not to ruin the surprise. This was unheard of back
|
|
then as people were used to just coming in at any point during a movie.
|
|
|
|
- After the film's release Hitchcock received an angry letter from the
|
|
father of a girl who refused to have a bath after seeing Diabolique and now
|
|
refused to shower after seeing Psycho. Hitch sent a note back simply
|
|
saying "Send her to the dry cleaners".
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
00.0001321 247 8.2 Rear Window (1954)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while
|
|
getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York
|
|
apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing
|
|
the neighbours. He begins to suspect that the man opposite may have
|
|
murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his society model girlfriend
|
|
Lisa Freemont and his nurse Stella to investigate.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Mystery
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
John Michael Hayes (S:AAN)
|
|
Cornell Woolrich (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Franz Waxman
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Ross Bagdasarian.................Songwriter
|
|
Denny Bartlett
|
|
Sara Berner......................Woman on Fire Escape
|
|
Raymond Burr.....................Lars Thorwald
|
|
Frank Cady.......................Man on Fire Escape
|
|
Wendell Corey....................Thomas J. Doyle
|
|
Georgine Darcy...................Miss Torso
|
|
Havis Davenport
|
|
Marla English....................Party Girl
|
|
Judith Evelyn....................Miss Lonely Hearts
|
|
Jesslyn Fax......................Sculptress
|
|
Fred Graham
|
|
Kathryn Grant....................Party Girl
|
|
Rand Harper......................Honeymooner
|
|
Len Hendry
|
|
Grace Kelly......................Lisa Fremont
|
|
Harry Landers....................Young Man
|
|
Alan Lee
|
|
Mike Mahoney
|
|
Edwin Parker
|
|
Thelma Ritter....................Stella
|
|
Dick Simmons
|
|
James Stewart....................Jeff (L. B. Jeffries)
|
|
Anthony Warde
|
|
Irene Winston....................Mrs. Thorwald
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance an hour into the film, winding the
|
|
clock in the songwriter's apartment.
|
|
|
|
- At the time the set was the largest indoor set built at Paramount Studios.
|
|
|
|
- The film was unavailable for many years owing to a dispute with Cornell
|
|
Woolrich's estate over the rights to the original story.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock supposedly hired Raymond Burr to play the villain because he
|
|
looked like his old producer David O. Selznick.
|
|
|
|
- Other than a couple of shots near the end and the discovery of the dead
|
|
dog all the shots in the movie originate from Stewart's apartment
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
000.011221 66 7.8 Rebecca (1940)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
A shy ladies companion is staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer
|
|
when she meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. Max is still troubled by the
|
|
death of his wife, Rebecca in a boating accident the year before. She and
|
|
Max fall in love, get married and return to Manderlay, his large country
|
|
estate in Cornwall. The second Mrs. de Winter meets the housekeeper Mrs.
|
|
Danvers and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at
|
|
Manderlay.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Romance Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Daphne Du Maurier (novel)
|
|
Joan Harrison (S:AAN)
|
|
Robert E. Sherwood (S:AAN)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Franz Waxman (O:AAN)
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
George Barnes (AA)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Judith Anderson (S:AAN)..........Mrs. Danvers
|
|
Florence Bates...................Mrs. Van Hopper
|
|
Nigel Bruce......................Major Giles Lacy
|
|
Leonard Carey....................Ben
|
|
Leo G. Carroll...................Dr. Baker
|
|
Gladys Cooper....................Beatrice Lacy
|
|
Melville Cooper..................Coroner
|
|
Reginald Denny...................Frank Crawley
|
|
Edward Fielding..................Frith
|
|
Joan Fontaine (AAN)..............Mrs. de Winter
|
|
Gladys George....................Beatrice Lacey
|
|
Lumsden Hare.....................Tabbs
|
|
Forrester Harvey.................Chalcroft
|
|
Laurence Olivier (AAN)...........Maxim de Winter
|
|
George Sanders...................Jack Favell
|
|
C. Aubrey Smith..................Colonel Julyan
|
|
Philip Winter....................Robert
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance walking past a phone booth just after
|
|
George Sanders makes a call in the final part of the movie.
|
|
|
|
- The first film Hitchcock made in Hollywood and the only one that won a
|
|
best picture Oscar (and even that went to the film's producer).
|
|
|
|
- Just as in the original novel, Joan Fontaine's character has no first
|
|
name.
|
|
|
|
- Over 20 actresses were tested for the role that eventually went to Joan
|
|
Fontaine.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
...1124.2. 10 6.7 Rich and Strange (1932)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Fred and Emily Hill lead a boring life in the London suburbs. They decide
|
|
to escape from it all by writing to a rich relative and asking for their
|
|
inheritance in advance. Using the money they go on a world cruise and get
|
|
into a series of misadventures.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Comedy Romance
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
Val Valentine
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Hal Dolphe
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Betty Amann......................The Princess
|
|
Joan Barry.......................Emily Hill
|
|
Henry Kendall....................Fred Hill
|
|
Percy Marmont....................Commander Gordon
|
|
Elsie Randolph...................The Old Maid
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
...2222... 4 5.5 Ring, The (1927)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Jack Saunders and Bob Corby are two boxers in love with Nellie. Jack and
|
|
Nellie are married but their marriage is flat so she starts to look to
|
|
Bob for comfort.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama Boxing Silent
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Carl Brisson.....................Jack Sanders
|
|
Lillian Hall-Davies..............Nelly
|
|
Gordon Harker
|
|
Forrester Harvey.................Harry
|
|
Tom Helmore
|
|
Ian Hunter.......................Bob Corby
|
|
Harry Terry
|
|
Billy Wells
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0.00012210 85 6.9 Rope (1948)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York appartment. They
|
|
consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley
|
|
and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David
|
|
with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a
|
|
small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancee Janet and their
|
|
old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As
|
|
Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Suspense Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Patrick Hamilton (play)
|
|
Arthur Laurents
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Leo F. Forbstein
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Joseph A. Valentine
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Joan Chandler....................Janet
|
|
Constance Collier................Mrs. Atwater
|
|
John Dall........................Brandon
|
|
Douglas Dick.....................Kenneth
|
|
Edith Evanson ..................Mrs. Wilson
|
|
Farley Granger...................Philip
|
|
Cedric Hardwicke.................Mr. Kentley
|
|
Dick Hogan.......................David Kentley
|
|
James Stewart....................Rupert Cadell
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock's trademark can be seen on a neon sign in the view from the
|
|
apartment window.
|
|
|
|
- The film was shot in a series of 8 minute continuous takes (the maximum
|
|
amount of film that a camera could hold). At the end of each segment the
|
|
camera zooms in on a dark object, ready to zoom out for the start of the
|
|
next segment. Most of the props were on castors and the crew had to wheel
|
|
them out of the way as the camera moved around the set.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock only managed to shoot roughly one segment per day. The last 4 or 5
|
|
segments had to be completely re-shot because Hitch wasn't happy with the
|
|
colour of the sunset.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0..00341.. 20 6.2 Sabotage (1936)
|
|
|
|
Aka Titles:
|
|
Woman Alone, A
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London.
|
|
He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover,
|
|
but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover
|
|
detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the
|
|
gang.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Charles Bennett
|
|
Joseph Conrad (novel)
|
|
E.V.H. Emmett
|
|
Ian Hay
|
|
Helen Simpson
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Louis Levy
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Bernard Knowles
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Sara Allgood
|
|
Joyce Barbour....................Renee
|
|
Pamela Bevan
|
|
Matthew Boulton..................Superintendent
|
|
Peter Bull
|
|
William Dewhurst.................Professor
|
|
Clare Greet
|
|
Oscar Homolka....................Mr. Verloc
|
|
Martita Hunt
|
|
John Loder.......................Ted
|
|
Sylvia Sidney....................Mrs. Verloc
|
|
Desmond Tester...................Her Brother
|
|
Torin Thatcher
|
|
Austin Trevor
|
|
S.J. Warmington..................Hollinghead
|
|
Sam Wilkinson
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0..00241.. 23 6.3 Saboteur (1942)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the States when
|
|
he is wrongly accused of starting a fire which killed his best friend.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
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|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Road
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Joan Harrison
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (story)
|
|
Dorothy Parker
|
|
Peter Viertel
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Frank Skinner
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Joseph A. Valentine
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Kathryn Adams
|
|
Murray Alper
|
|
Alan Baxter......................Mr. Freeman
|
|
Oliver Blake
|
|
Anita Bolster
|
|
Frances Carson
|
|
Robert Cummings..................Barry Kane
|
|
Billy Curtis
|
|
Pedro De Cordoba
|
|
Vaughn Glaser
|
|
Alma Kruger......................Mrs. Van Sutton
|
|
Otto Kruger......................Charles Tobin
|
|
Priscilla Lane...................Patricia Martin
|
|
Anita LeDeaux
|
|
Norman Lloyd.....................Fry
|
|
Dorothy Peterson
|
|
Jeanne Roher
|
|
Lynn Roher
|
|
Ian Wolfe
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about an hour in standing in front of
|
|
Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the saboteur's car stops.
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|
|
Title:
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|
....01501. 16 7.0 Secret Agent (1936)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
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|
British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home during WWI to
|
|
find that a government agency has faked a report of his death. They get
|
|
him to change his name to Richard Ashenden and travel to Switzerland to
|
|
track down a German agent.
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|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Spy Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Charles Bennett
|
|
Campbell Dixon
|
|
Ian Hay
|
|
Jesse Lasky Jr.
|
|
W. Somerset Maugham
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Louis Levy
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Bernard Knowles
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Madeleine Carroll................Elsa
|
|
Charles Carson...................R
|
|
John Gielgud.....................Ashenden
|
|
Tom Helmore
|
|
Florence Kahn....................Mrs. Caypor
|
|
Peter Lorre......................The General
|
|
Percy Marmont....................Caypor
|
|
Lilli Palmer.....................Lilli
|
|
Michael Redgrave
|
|
Michel Saint-Davis
|
|
Robert Young.....................Marvin
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|
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|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
00.0.11220 51 7.6 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
The Newton family lead a quiet life in the North California town of Santa
|
|
Rosa. The Newton's eldest daughter, Charlotte, decides that things need
|
|
brightening up and resolves to contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she
|
|
is named) and invite him to stay. On arrival at the telegraph office she
|
|
discovers he is already on his way. However, Uncle Charlie is being pursued
|
|
by a couple of detectives who suspect him of being "The Merry Widow
|
|
Murderer", an evil strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several
|
|
rich East coast widows.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Sally Benson
|
|
Gordon McDonell (story) (StO:AAN)
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
Thornton Wilder
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Dmitri Tiomkin
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Joseph A. Valentine
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Irving Bacon.....................Station Master
|
|
Charles Bates....................Roger Newton
|
|
Virginia Brissac.................Mrs. Phillips
|
|
Macdonald Carey..................Jack Graham
|
|
Frances Carson...................Mrs. Poetter
|
|
Patricia Collinge................Emma Newton
|
|
Joseph Cotten....................Charlie Oakley
|
|
Hume Cronyn......................Herbie Hawkins
|
|
Earle S. Dewey...................Mr. Norton
|
|
Sarah Edwards....................Doctor's wife on Train
|
|
Edward Fielding..................Doctor on Train
|
|
Wallace Ford.....................Fred Saunders
|
|
Vaughn Glaser....................Dr. Phillips
|
|
Estelle Jewell...................Girlfriend
|
|
Ruth Lee.........................Mrs. MacCurdy
|
|
Eily Malyon......................Librarian
|
|
John McGuire.....................Detective
|
|
Shirley Mills....................Young Girl
|
|
Clarence Muse....................Railroad Porter
|
|
Constance Purdy..................Mrs. Martin
|
|
Isabel Randolph..................Mrs. Green
|
|
Grandon Rhodes...................Reverand MacCurdy
|
|
Janet Shaw.......................Louise
|
|
Byron Shores.....................Detective
|
|
Edwin Stanley....................Mr. Green
|
|
Henry Travers....................Joseph Newton
|
|
Minerva Urecal...................Mrs. Henderson
|
|
Edna Mae Wonacott................Ann Newton
|
|
Teresa Wright....................Young Charlie
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance on the train to Santa Rosa playing
|
|
cards. He has the entire suit of spades in his hand, including the symbolic
|
|
ace.
|
|
|
|
- It was remade as "Step Down to Terror" in 1958 and as a TV movie in 1991.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
....3.3.3. 3 7.0 Skin Game, The (1931)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small
|
|
English village and almost destroy each other.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
John Galsworthy (play)
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cox
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
George Bancroft..................Second Stranger
|
|
Edward Chapman...................Dawker
|
|
Jill Esmond......................Jill
|
|
C.V. France......................Mr. Hillcrest
|
|
Ronald Frankaus..................Auctioneer
|
|
Dona Gregory.....................Mrs. Jackman
|
|
Edmund Gwenn.....................Mr. Hornblower
|
|
Helen Haye.......................Mrs. Hillcrest
|
|
R.E. Jeffrey.....................First Stranger
|
|
Phyllis Konstam..................Chloe
|
|
Frank Lawton.....................Rolf
|
|
John Longden.....................Charles
|
|
Herbert Ross.....................Mr. Jackman
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
..00012310 49 7.3 Spellbound (1945)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be
|
|
replaced by Dr. Edwards, a famous psychiatrist. Edwards arrives and is
|
|
immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen.
|
|
However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is in fact a paranoid
|
|
amnesiac imposter. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his
|
|
condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Romance Psychoanalysis Mystery
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Francis Beeding (novel)
|
|
Ben Hecht
|
|
Angus MacPhail
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Miklos Rozsa (D:AA)
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
George Barnes (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Jean Aker........................Matron
|
|
Art Baker........................Lt. Cooley
|
|
Richard Bartell..................Ticket Man
|
|
Ingrid Bergman...................Dr. Constance Peterson
|
|
Harry (II) Brown.................Gateman
|
|
Leo G. Carroll...................Dr. Murchison
|
|
Michael Chekhov (S:AAN)..........Dr. Brulov
|
|
Donald Curtis....................Harry
|
|
Joel Davis.......................John Ballantine (younger)
|
|
John Emery.......................Dr. Fleurot
|
|
Edward Fielding..................Dr. Edwardes
|
|
Rhonda Fleming...................Mary Carmichael
|
|
Wallace Ford.....................Hotel Stranger
|
|
Steven Geray.....................Dr. Graff
|
|
Bill Goodwin.....................House Detective
|
|
Paul Harvey......................Dr. Hanish
|
|
Teddy Infuhr.....................Ballantine's Brother
|
|
Victor Kilian....................Sheriff
|
|
Norman Lloyd.....................Garmes
|
|
George Meader....................Railroad Clerk
|
|
Matt Moore.......................Policeman
|
|
Gregory Peck.....................John Ballantine
|
|
Addison Richards.................Police Captain
|
|
Erskine Sanford..................Dr. Galt
|
|
Janet Scott......................Norma
|
|
Clarence Straight................Secretary at Police Station
|
|
Regis Toomey.....................Sergeant Gillespie
|
|
Dave Willock.....................Bellboy
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 40 minutes in, coming out of the
|
|
elevator at the Empire hotel carrying a violin.
|
|
|
|
- One of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis.
|
|
|
|
- The dream sequence was designed by Salvador Dali, and was originally
|
|
supposed to run to 20 minutes. It included a scene with Ingrid Bergman
|
|
covered in ants. Only part of it was filmed, and even less of it ended up in
|
|
the release version.
|
|
|
|
- The shot where the audience sees the killer's view down a gun barrel
|
|
pointing at Ingrid Bergman was filmed using a giant hand holding a giant
|
|
gun to get the perspective correct.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
0.00022.1. 14 5.9 Stage Fright (1950)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his
|
|
lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan
|
|
explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real
|
|
murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the
|
|
detective in charge of the case, she starts to fall in love.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Mystery
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Whitfield Cook
|
|
Selwyn Jepson (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Leighton Lucas
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Wilkie Cooper
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Ballard Berkeley
|
|
Marlene Dietrich.................Charlotte Inwood
|
|
Joyce Grenfell...................Shooting Gallery Attendant
|
|
Patricia Hitchcock...............Chubby Banister
|
|
Hector MacGregor.................Freddie
|
|
Miles Malleson...................Bibulous gent
|
|
Andre Morell.....................Inspector Byard
|
|
Alastair Sim.....................Commodore Gill
|
|
Sybil Thorndike..................Mrs. Gill
|
|
Richard Todd.....................Jonathan Cooper
|
|
Kay Walsh........................Nellie
|
|
Michael Wilding..................Inspector Wilfred Smith
|
|
Jane Wyman.......................Eve Gill
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance turning to look at Jane Wyman in her
|
|
disguise as Marlene Dietrich's maid.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
0..0001310 62 7.7 Strangers on a Train (1951)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy
|
|
Haines on a train. Guy wants to move into a career in politics and has
|
|
been dating a senator's daughter (Ann Morton) while awaiting a divorce from
|
|
his wife. Bruno wants to kill his father, but knows he will be caught
|
|
because he has a motive. Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme whereby he and Guy
|
|
exchange murders. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes
|
|
things into his own hands.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Raymond Chandler
|
|
Patricia Highsmith (novel)
|
|
Czenzi Ormonde
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Dmitri Tiomkin
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks (AAN)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Joel Allen.......................Policeman
|
|
Murray Alper.....................Boatman
|
|
Monya Andre......................Dowager
|
|
John Brown.......................Professor Collins
|
|
John Butler......................Blind Man
|
|
Leonard Carey....................Butler
|
|
Leo G. Carroll...................Senator Morton
|
|
Edward Clark.....................Mr. Hargreaves
|
|
John Doucette....................Hammond
|
|
Laura Elliot.....................Miriam Haines
|
|
Roy Engel........................Policeman
|
|
Tommy Farrell....................Miriam's Boyfriend
|
|
Sam Flint........................Man
|
|
Robert Gist......................Hennessy
|
|
Farley Granger...................Guy Haines
|
|
Jonathan Hale....................Mr. Antony
|
|
Eddie Hearn......................Sgt. Campbell
|
|
Harry Hines......................Man Under Merry-Go-Round
|
|
Patricia Hitchcock...............Barbara Morton
|
|
Mary Alan Hokanson...............Secretary
|
|
Edna Holland.....................Mrs. Joyce
|
|
J. Louis Johnson.................Butler
|
|
Louis Lettieri...................Boy
|
|
Marion Lorne.....................Mrs. Antony
|
|
Charles Meredith.................Judge Dolan
|
|
Ralph Moody......................Seedy Man
|
|
Rolland Morris...................Miriam's Boyfriend
|
|
Odette Myrtil....................Madame Darville
|
|
Minna Phillips...................Dowager
|
|
George Renevant..................Monsieur Darville
|
|
Ruth Roman.......................Anne Morton
|
|
Howard St. John..................Captain Turley
|
|
Janet Stewart....................Girl
|
|
Shirley Tegge....................Girl
|
|
Laura Treadwell..................Mrs. Anderson
|
|
Norma Varden.....................Mrs. Cunningham
|
|
Robert Walker....................Bruno Antony
|
|
Howard Washington................Waiter
|
|
Dick Wessel......................Bill
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film boarding a train
|
|
carrying a double bass fiddle as Farley Granger gets off the train (see
|
|
also his cameo in The Paradine Case).
|
|
|
|
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
|
|
to keep the price down and got them for just $7,500
|
|
|
|
- Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was
|
|
almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author.
|
|
|
|
- The movie was remade as "Once you Kiss a Stranger" in 1969.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
..00013210 48 7.2 Suspicion (1941)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money
|
|
from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel
|
|
in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to court
|
|
Lina and before long they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that
|
|
she discovers his true character and she starts to become suspicious when
|
|
Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Mystery
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Joan Harrison
|
|
Francis Iles (novel)
|
|
Samson Raphaelson
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Franz Waxman (D:AAN)
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Harry Stradling Sr.
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Heather Angel....................Ethel
|
|
Billy Bevan......................Ticket Taker
|
|
Nigel Bruce......................Beaky
|
|
Leo G. Carroll...................Captain Melbeck
|
|
Joan Fontaine (AA)...............Lina McLaidlaw
|
|
Cary Grant.......................Johnnie Aysgarth
|
|
Cedric Hardwicke.................Mr. McLaidlaw
|
|
Lumsden Hare.....................Inspector Hodgson
|
|
Gertrude Hoffman.................Mrs. Wetherby
|
|
Isabel Jeans.....................Mrs. Newsham
|
|
Auriol Lee.......................Isobel Sedbusk
|
|
Hilda Plowright..................Postmistress
|
|
Reginald Sheffield...............Reggie Wetherby
|
|
Ben Webster......................Registrar
|
|
May Whitty.......................Mrs. McLaidlaw
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 45 minutes in, mailing a letter at
|
|
the village post office.
|
|
|
|
- In the scene where Cary Grant brings a glass of milk up to Joan Fontaine,
|
|
Hitch had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock originally wanted Grant to be guilty, but the studio insisted
|
|
that the public wouldn't accept him as a murderer.
|
|
|
|
- It was remade as a British TV movie in 1987
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0...012220 93 7.6 To Catch a Thief (1955)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
A series of ingenious jewelry robberies takes place on the French Riviera.
|
|
The police suspect John Robbie - an expert thief who was known as "The Cat"
|
|
before he retired from crime. Robbie enlists the help of an insurance man
|
|
to guess where the real thief will strike next. He befriends wealthy
|
|
widow Jessie Stevens and her attractive daughter Frances.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Romance
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
David Dodge (novel)
|
|
John Michael Hayes
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Lyn Murray
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks (AA)
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
John Alderson....................Detective
|
|
Georgette Anys...................Germaine
|
|
Brigitte Auber...................Danielle
|
|
Rene Blancard....................Lepic
|
|
Lewis Charles
|
|
Guy De Vestel....................Detective
|
|
Russell Gaige....................Mr. Sanford
|
|
Cary Grant.......................John Robie
|
|
Jean Hebey.......................Mercier
|
|
Grace Kelly......................Frances Stevens
|
|
Bela Kovacs......................Detective
|
|
Jessie Royce Landis..............Jessie Stevens
|
|
Roland Lesaffre..................Claude
|
|
Jean Martinelli..................Foussard
|
|
Don Megowan......................Detective
|
|
Paul Newlan......................Vegetableman
|
|
Leonard Penn.....................Monaco Policeman
|
|
Marie Stoddard...................Mrs. Sanford
|
|
Charles Vanel....................Bertani
|
|
John (I) Williams................H. H. Hughson
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 10 minutes in, sitting next to Cary
|
|
Grant on a bus.
|
|
|
|
- The road where Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are pursued by the police is
|
|
the same one where Kelly died in a car crash 27 years later.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
0.0122010. 33 5.7 Topaz (1969)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
A high ranking Russian official defects to the United States, where he is
|
|
interviewed by US agent Michael Nordstrom. The defector reveals that a
|
|
French spy ring codenamed "Topaz" has been passing NATO secrets to the
|
|
Russians. Michael calls in his French friend and counterpart Andre
|
|
Devereaux to expose the spies.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Spy
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Samuel Taylor
|
|
Leon Uris (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Maurice Jarre
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Hildyard
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Per-Axel Arosenius...............Boris Kusenov
|
|
Lew Brown........................American Official
|
|
Roscoe Lee Browne................Philippe Dubois
|
|
Lewis Charles....................Mr. Mendoza
|
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Roberto Contreras................Munoz
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|
Karin Dor........................Juanita de Cordoba
|
|
John Forsythe....................Michael Nordstrom
|
|
Tina Hedstrom....................Tamara Kusenov
|
|
Claude Jade......................Michele Picard
|
|
Sonja Kolthoff...................Mrs. Kusenov
|
|
Anna Navarro.....................Mrs. Mendoza
|
|
Philippe Noiret..................Henri Jarre
|
|
Michel Piccoli...................Jacques Granville
|
|
Don Randolph.....................Luis Uribe
|
|
Carlos Rivas.....................Hernandez
|
|
Dany Robin.......................Nicole Devereaux
|
|
John Roper.......................Thomas
|
|
Edmond Ryan......................McKittreck
|
|
George Skaff.....................Rene d'Arcy
|
|
Frederick Stafford...............Andre Devereaux
|
|
Michel Subor.....................Francois Picard
|
|
Sandor Szabo.....................Emile Redon
|
|
Roger Til........................Jean Chabrier
|
|
John Van Dreelen.................Claude Martin
|
|
John Vernon......................Rico Parra
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|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 30 minutes in at the airport getting
|
|
out of a wheelchair.
|
|
|
|
- The film was Hitchcock's biggest flop, costing over $4M to make, but taking
|
|
less than $1M
|
|
|
|
- Leon Uris wrote the first draft of the screenplay, but Hitch declared it
|
|
unshootable at the last minute and called in Samuel Taylor (writer of
|
|
Vertigo) to rewrite it from scratch. Some scenes were written just hours
|
|
before they were shot.
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|
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|
|
Title:
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|
.000023100 28 6.5 Torn Curtain (1966)
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|
|
|
Summary:
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|
U.S. rocket scientist Michael Armstrong and his assistant/fiancee Sarah
|
|
Sherman are attending a convention in Norway. Michael is acting very
|
|
suspiciously and Sarah follows him to East Germany when he apparently tries
|
|
to defect to the other side.
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|
|
|
Summary by:
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|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller Spy
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writer:
|
|
Brian Moore
|
|
|
|
Composers:
|
|
John Addison
|
|
Bernard Herrmann (rejected)
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|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
John F. Warren
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|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Julie Andrews....................Sarah Sherman
|
|
Carolyn Conwell..................Farmer's Wife
|
|
Ludwig Donath....................Professor Gustav Lindt
|
|
Hans-Joerg Felmy.................Heinrich Gerhard
|
|
Gisela Fischer...................Dr. Koska
|
|
Gloria Gorvin
|
|
Arthur Gould-Porter..............Freddy
|
|
Lila Kedrova.....................Countess Luchinska
|
|
Wolfgang Kieling.................Hermann Gromek
|
|
Mort Mills.......................Farmer
|
|
Paul Newman......................Michael Armstrong
|
|
David Opatoshu...................Jakobi
|
|
Gunter Strack....................Professor Karl Manfred
|
|
Tamara Toumanova ...............Ballerina
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|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film sitting in a hotel
|
|
lobby with a baby on his knee.
|
|
|
|
- The scene where agent Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult
|
|
it really can be to kill a man.
|
|
|
|
- Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall did extensive (uncredited) rewrites on the
|
|
script.
|
|
|
|
- Bernard Herrmann wrote the original score, but Universal executives convinced
|
|
Hitch that they needed a more upbeat score. Hitch and Herrmann had a major
|
|
disagreement, the score was dropped and they never worked together again.
|
|
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|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
..00023200 85 7.0 Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is
|
|
found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that
|
|
they had something to do with his death.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Black_Comedy
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
John Michael Hayes
|
|
Jack Trevor Story (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Bernard Herrmann
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Ernest Curt Bach
|
|
Royal Dano.......................Calvin Wiggs
|
|
Mildred Dunnock..................Mrs. Wiggs
|
|
Parker Fennelly..................Millionaire
|
|
John Forsythe....................Sam Marlowe
|
|
Edmund Gwenn.....................Captain Albert Wiles
|
|
Shirley MacLaine.................Jennifer Rogers
|
|
Barry Macollum...................Tramp
|
|
Dwight Marfield..................Dr. Greenbow
|
|
Jerry Mathers....................Arnie Rogers
|
|
Mildred Natwick..................Miss Gravely
|
|
Philip Truex
|
|
Leslie Wolff
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about 20 minutes in, walking past the
|
|
limousine of a man looking at the paintings.
|
|
|
|
- Bernard Herrmann's score was the first of a long collaboration with
|
|
Hitchcock that lasted nearly nine years.
|
|
|
|
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
|
|
for just $11,000.
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
|
.002212... 13 5.0 Under Capricorn (1949)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life
|
|
with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he
|
|
arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants
|
|
to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's
|
|
house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child
|
|
back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of
|
|
madness.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
James Bridie
|
|
Helen Simpson (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Richard Addinsell
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Jack Cardiff
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Ronald Adam
|
|
Ingrid Bergman...................Henrietta Flusky
|
|
Joseph Cotten....................Sam Flusky
|
|
Francis De Wolff
|
|
Maureen Delaney
|
|
Julia Lang
|
|
Margaret Leighton................Milly
|
|
Roderick Lovell
|
|
Victor Lucas
|
|
Betty McDermot
|
|
G.H. Mulcaster
|
|
Denis O'Dea......................Corrigan
|
|
Cecil Parker.....................Governor
|
|
John Ruddock
|
|
Bill Shine
|
|
Olive Sloan
|
|
Jack Watling.....................Winter
|
|
Michael Wilding..................Charles Adare
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance five minutes into the movie in the
|
|
town square wearing a coat and a brown hat. Ten minutes later he is one of
|
|
three men on the steps of government house.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0..0001311 189 7.9 Vertigo (1958)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson develops a fear of
|
|
heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during
|
|
a chase. An old college friend (Gavin Elster) hires Scottie to watch his
|
|
wife Madeleine who has become obsessed with the past. Scottie follows her
|
|
around San Francisco and is drawn into a complex plot.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Mystery Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Pierre Boileau (novel)
|
|
Alec Coppel
|
|
Thomas Narcejac (novel)
|
|
Samuel Taylor
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Bernard Herrmann
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Raymond Bailey...................Doctor
|
|
Barbara Bel Geddes...............Midge
|
|
Ellen Corby......................Manageress
|
|
Tom Helmore......................Gavin Elster
|
|
Henry Jones......................Official
|
|
Kim Novak........................Madeleine/Judy
|
|
Lee Patrick......................Older Mistaken Identification
|
|
Konstantin Shayne................Pop Leibel
|
|
James Stewart....................Scottie Ferguson
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about 11 minutes in wearing a gray
|
|
suit walking past Gavin Elster's shipyard.
|
|
|
|
- The film is based upon the novel "D'Entre les Morts" which was written
|
|
specifically for Hitchcock after the authors heard that he tried to
|
|
buy the rights to their previous novel "Diabolique".
|
|
|
|
- San Juan Batista, the Spanish mission which features in key scenes in the
|
|
movie doesn't actually have a bell tower - it was added with trick
|
|
photography. The mission originally had a steeple but it was demolished
|
|
following a fire.
|
|
|
|
- The screenplay is credited to Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, but Coppel
|
|
didn't write a word of the final draft. He is credited for contractual
|
|
reasons only. Taylor read neither Coppel's script nor the original novel,
|
|
he worked solely from Hitchcock's outline of the story.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock reportedly spent a week filming a brief scene where Kim Novak
|
|
stares at a portrait in the Palace of the Legion of Honor just to get the
|
|
lighting right.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock invented the famous combination of forward zoom and reverse
|
|
tracking shot to convey the sense of vertigo to the audience. The view
|
|
down the mission stair well cost $19,000 for just a couple of seconds of
|
|
screen time.
|
|
|
|
- Hitchcock originally wanted Vera Miles to play Madeleine, but she got
|
|
pregnant and was therefore unavailable.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
.....*.... 2 6.0 Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Musical Comedy
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Guy Bolton (also play)
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Johann Strauss
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Marcus Barron....................Drexter
|
|
Fay Compton......................The Countess
|
|
Bertram Dench
|
|
Hindle Edgar.....................Leopold
|
|
Sybil Grove
|
|
Edmund Gwenn.....................Strauss the Elder
|
|
Robert Hale......................Ebezeder
|
|
Charles Heslop
|
|
Betty Huntley Wright
|
|
Esmond Knight....................Strauss the Younger
|
|
B.M. Lewis
|
|
Jessie Matthews..................Rasi
|
|
Billy Shine Jr.
|
|
Cyril Smith
|
|
Frank Vosper.....................The Prince
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
0...02320. 19 6.7 Wrong Man, The (1957)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork
|
|
Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the
|
|
local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office
|
|
mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the
|
|
police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny
|
|
and his family.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Drama
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Maxwell Anderson
|
|
Angus MacPhail
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Bernard Herrmann
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Robert Burks
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Charles Aidman...................Jail Medical Attendant
|
|
Sammy Armaro.....................Suspect
|
|
Barry Atwater....................Mr. Bishop
|
|
Laurinda Barrett.................Constance Willis
|
|
Michael Ann Barrett..............Miss Daily
|
|
John C. Becher...................Liquor Store Proprietor
|
|
Henry Beckman....................Prisoner
|
|
Ray Bennett......................Policeman
|
|
Harold Berman....................Court Stenographer
|
|
Mary Boylan......................Curious Customer
|
|
Paul Bryar.......................Interrogation Officer
|
|
Ed Bryce.........................Court Officer
|
|
John Caler.......................Soldier
|
|
Kippy Campbell...................Robert Balestrero
|
|
Leonard Capone...................Court Clerk
|
|
Paul Carr........................Young Man
|
|
Gordon Clark.....................Police Attendant
|
|
Norma Connelly...................Betty Todd
|
|
Charles Cooper...................Detective Matthews
|
|
William Crane....................Juror
|
|
Lola D'Annunzio..................Olga Conforti
|
|
Spencer Davis....................Prisoner's Lawyer
|
|
Mel Dowd.........................Nurse
|
|
Josef Draper.....................Juror
|
|
Richard Durham...................Department of Correction Guard
|
|
Robert Essen.....................Gregory Balestrero
|
|
Olga Fabian......................Mrs. Mank
|
|
Henry Fonda......................Manny Balestrero
|
|
Bonny Franklin...................Young Girl
|
|
Chris Gampel.....................Department of Correction Guard
|
|
Earl George......................Delicatessen Proprietor
|
|
Charles J. Guiotta...............Court Officer
|
|
Cherry Hardy.....................Waving Woman
|
|
Will Hare........................McKaba
|
|
John Heldabrand..................Tomasini
|
|
Rhodelle Heller..................Stork Club Customer
|
|
Bill Hudson......................Police Lieutenant from the 110th precinct
|
|
Anna Karen.......................Miss Duffield
|
|
Barbara Karen....................Giggly Girl
|
|
Mike Keene.......................Department of Correction Guard
|
|
David Kelly......................Policeman
|
|
Werner Klemperer.................Dr. Bannay
|
|
Walter Kohler....................Manny's Felony Court Attorney
|
|
Doreen Lang......................Ann James
|
|
William LeMassena................Sang
|
|
Alexander Lockwood...............Emmerton
|
|
Dayton Lummis....................Judge Groat
|
|
Maurice Manson...................District Attorney
|
|
Donald May.......................Arresting Patrolman
|
|
Marc May.........................Tomasini's Assistant
|
|
Don McGovern.....................Waving Man
|
|
John McKee.......................Police Attendant
|
|
Dallas Midgette..................Customer at Bickford's
|
|
Vera Miles.......................Rose Balestrero
|
|
Silvio Minciotta.................Mr. Balestrero
|
|
Esther Minciotti.................Manny's Mother
|
|
Pat Morrow.......................Young Girl
|
|
Thomas J. Murphy.................Court Officer
|
|
Daniel Ocko......................Felony Court Judge
|
|
Nehemiah Persoff.................Gene Conforti
|
|
Natalie Priest...................Delicatessen Proprietor's Wife
|
|
Anthony Quayle...................Frank O'Connor
|
|
Allan Ray........................Suspect
|
|
Frances Reid.....................Mrs. O'Connor
|
|
Maria Reid.......................Spanish Woman
|
|
Richard Robbins..................Daniell
|
|
Rossana San Marco................Mrs. Ferraro
|
|
Penny Santon.....................Spanish Woman
|
|
Frank Schofield..................Department of Correction Guard
|
|
Elizabeth Scott..................Waving Woman
|
|
Helen Shields....................Receptionist
|
|
Otto Simanek.....................Mr. Mank
|
|
Oliver Stacey....................Stork Club Customer
|
|
Harry Stanton....................Department of Correction Guard
|
|
John Stephen.....................Stork Club Customer
|
|
Harold J. Stone..................Lt. Bowers
|
|
Clarence Straight................Policeman
|
|
Dino Terranova...................Mr. Ferraro
|
|
Emerson Treacy...................Mr. Wendon
|
|
John Truax.......................Suspect
|
|
Don Turner.......................Detective
|
|
John Vivyan......................Detective Holman
|
|
Peggy Webber.....................Miss Dennerly
|
|
Tuesday Weld.....................Giggly Girl
|
|
Maurice Wells....................Department of Correction Guard
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance narrating the film's prologue. The only
|
|
time he actually spoke in any of his films.
|
|
|
|
- Although based on a true story, Hitchcock deliberately left out some of the
|
|
information that pointed to Manny's innocence to heighten the tension.
|
|
|
|
- The "right" man (the real culprit) can be seen several times during the
|
|
film: outside the Stork Club, in the Victor Moore arcade and near one of
|
|
the liquor stores where the police take Manny.
|
|
|
|
|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
Title:
|
|
..0..422.. 15 6.5 Young and Innocent (1937)
|
|
|
|
Summary:
|
|
A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all
|
|
her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to
|
|
be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the
|
|
police, however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer.
|
|
Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and
|
|
goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to
|
|
prove his innocence.
|
|
|
|
Summary by:
|
|
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
|
Thriller
|
|
|
|
Director:
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
|
|
|
Writers:
|
|
Charles Bennett
|
|
Alma Reville
|
|
Josephine Tey (novel)
|
|
|
|
Composer:
|
|
Louis Levy
|
|
|
|
Director of Photography:
|
|
Bernard Knowles
|
|
|
|
Cast:
|
|
Frank Atkinson
|
|
Clive Baxter
|
|
Pamela Bevan
|
|
Pamela Carme.....................Christine
|
|
Albert Chevalier
|
|
Mary Clare.......................Erica's Aunt
|
|
George Curzon....................Guy
|
|
Derrick De Marney................Robert Tisdall
|
|
William Fazan
|
|
Gerry Fitzgerald
|
|
Richard George
|
|
Anna Konstam
|
|
John Longden.....................Det. Insp. Kent
|
|
H.F. Maltby
|
|
Percy Marmont....................Col. Burgoyne
|
|
George Merritt
|
|
John Miller
|
|
Fred O'Donovan
|
|
Nova Pilbeam.....................Erica Burgoyne
|
|
Basil Radford....................Erica's Uncle
|
|
Edward Rigby.....................Old Will
|
|
J.H. Roberts
|
|
Peggy Simpson
|
|
Torin Thatcher
|
|
Beatrice Varley
|
|
Jerry Verno
|
|
Jack Vyvian
|
|
Humberston Wright
|
|
|
|
Trivia:
|
|
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance outside the courthouse holding a camera
|
|
as Derrick de Marney escapes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
HITCHCOCK ON LASERDISC
|
|
======================
|
|
|
|
This section gives details of all Hitchcock's work available on NTSC LaserDisc
|
|
in the USA. Many thanks to Dave Radcliffe <radcliff@apple.com> for this
|
|
information.
|
|
|
|
Title Year Format Sides Price Distrib. Catalog Extras
|
|
----- ---- ------ ----- ----- -------- ------- ------
|
|
39 Steps, The 1935 CLV 2 39.95 Criterion CC1103L
|
|
Alfred Hitchcock Presents CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40009 (1)
|
|
Birds, The 1963 CLV 3 39.98 MCA 11007 (2)
|
|
Blackmail 1929 CLV 2 49.95 Criterion CC1297L (0)
|
|
Dial M for Murder 1953 CLV 2 34.98 Warner 11156
|
|
Family Plot 1976 CLV/CAV 3 39.98 MCA 11005 (3)
|
|
Foreign Correspondent 1940 CLV/CAV 3 39.98 Warner 35080
|
|
Frenzy 1972 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 11006 (4)
|
|
I Confess 1952 CLV 2 34.98 Warner 11063
|
|
Lady Vanishes, The 1938 CLV 2 34.95 Criterion CC1108L
|
|
Lifeboat 1943 CLV 2 39.98 CBS/Fox 1393-80
|
|
Man Who Knew Too Much, The 1934 CLV/CAV 2 29.95 Image ID7462FP
|
|
Man Who Knew Too Much, The 1956 CLV 2 29.95 MCA 40129
|
|
Marnie 1964 CLV 3 39.95 MCA 40156 (5)
|
|
Mr. & Mrs. Smith 1941 CLV 2 39.98 Image ID6405TU
|
|
North by Northwest 1959 CLV 3 69.95 Criterion CC1226L
|
|
North by Northwest 1959 CLV/CAV 3 29.95 MGM/UA (6)
|
|
North by Northwest 1959 CAV 6 124.95 Criterion CC1145L (7)
|
|
Notorious 1946 CLV 2 44.95 Criterion CC1204L (8)
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Notorious 1946 CAV 4 99.95 Criterion CC1203L (9)
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Psycho 1960 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 11003 (10)
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Rear Window 1954 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40081
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Rebecca 1940 CLV 3 69.95 Criterion CC1199L (11)
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Rebecca 1940 CAV/CLV 6 124.95 Criterion CC1198L (12)
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Rope 1948 CLV 2 34.98 MCA 40110
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Sabotage 1936 CLV 2 34.95 Criterion CC1117L
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Saboteur 1942 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40111 (13)
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Secret Agent 1936 CLV 2 29.95 Criterion CC1118L
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Shadow of a Doubt 1943 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40112 (14)
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Spellbound 1945 CLV 2 39.98 CBS/Fox 8035-80
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Stage Fright 1950 CLV 2 34.98 Warner 11380
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Strangers on a Train 1951 CLV 2 24.95 Warner 11062
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Suspicion 1941 CLV 2 34.95 Image ID6404TU
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To Catch A Thief 1955 CLV 2 29.95 Paramount LV 6308
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Topaz 1969 CLV/CAV 3 34.95 MCA 40473 (15)
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Torn Curtain 1966 CLV/CAV 3 39.95 MCA 40472 (16)
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Trouble With Harry, The 1956 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40130
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Under Capricorn 1949 CLV 2 39.95 Image ID8171VA
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Vertigo 1958 CLV 2 39.98 MCA 40082
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Wrong Man, The 1957 CLV 2 34.95 Warner 11155
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Young and Innocent 1937 CLV 2 34.95 Criterion CC1116L
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Note:
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For dual format discs, the final side is in the second format listed.
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Extras information:
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(0) Audio commentary by Charles Bennett, screentests, outtakes
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(1) Four half hour episodes from the TV series:
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Lamb to the Slaughter/The Case of Mr. Pelham/Banquo's Chair/
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Back for Christmas
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(2) Trailers for: The Birds, Vertigo, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much,
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Rear Window, Psycho
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(3) Theatrical trailers, production stills
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(4) Theatrical trailer
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(5) Theatrical trailer
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(6) Theatrical trailer
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(7) Theatrical trailer, publicity stills, production photos, interviews,
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storyboards, discussion of VistaVision
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(8) Audio commentary by Rudi Behlmer
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(9) Audio commentary by Rudi Behlmer, publicity stills, production info &
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techniques, possible alternate endings, radio version, theatrical trailer
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(10) Theatrical trailer
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(11) Audio commentary by Leonard J. Leff
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(12) Audio commentary by Leonard J. Leff, screen tests, interviews, publicity
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stills, radio version
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(13) Theatrical trailer
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(14) Theatrical trailer
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(15) Theatrical trailer, two alternate endings
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(16) Theatrical trailer
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