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Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘To Catch a Thief’: Bringing Cary Grant Back From a...
The first out of five movies that Alfred Hitchcock made with VistaVision and his third and final collaboration with the magnificent Grace Kelly, To Catch a Thief is the master’s welcome and precious...
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‘Shadow of a Doubt’: Hitchcock’s Disquieting Little Subversive Masterpiece
One of the most subversive films Alfred Hitchcock ever made is a disquieting little masterpiece called Shadow of a Doubt that was brought to life back in 1943, in the very midst of the Second World...
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Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Lifeboat’: An Expertly Composed Allegorical Thriller That...
The first in Alfred Hitchcock’s series of limited-setting films, the 1944 American drama thriller Lifeboat is a remarkable proof of the filmmaker’s expertise and power at creating tension stemming from...
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‘Suspicion’: Proof that a True Artist Can Create Great Things Even Under the...
Sometimes considered a second-rate product in a highly admirable series of excellent movies in Alfred Hitchcock’s dossier, the 1941 psychological thriller named Suspicion is, au contraire, a masterful...
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‘Spellbound’: A Star-Studded Love Story in Dalí’s Design and Hitchcock’s Style
One of the thematically unique works of Alfred Hitchcock was definitely the 1945 giant crowd-pleaser called Spellbound, featuring the unlikely romance of Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. The story of a...
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‘North by Northwest’: Quite Possibly the Most Entertaining Hitchcock Ever
I want to do a Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures, allegedly announced screenwriter Ernest Lehman, after his friend, composer Bernard Herrmann recommended him to Alfred Hitchcock. This...
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‘Strangers on a Train’: A Technically Perfect Psychological Carousel as One...
One of the most popular psychological crime thrillers that Hitchcock ever made is definitely Strangers on a Train, the master’s adaptation of crime novelist Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel that hit...
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‘Rear Window’: Hitchcock’s Cinematic Exploration of Voyeurism Disguised as a...
For all our education and filmwatching experience, we still haven’t found a better example of a film that so efficiently, elegantly and in a brilliantly simple way manages to produce a protagonist so...
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‘Frenzy’: Hitchcock’s Return to Perfection in His Penultimate Film
Having turned in a couple of ill-received films delving into the matters of political intrigue, Alfred Hitchcock went back to Britain and, practically at the very end of his career, made another great...
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‘Psycho’: The Proto-Slasher that Brought On a Revolution in Cinema
The image of a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere, by-passed by any relevant roads and inhabited by disturbing, weird or antisocial characters. The brutal murder committed by a merciless lunatic...
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‘Notorious’: Hitchcock’s Mature and Intricate Espionage Masterpiece
Sometime in August 1944, while Alfred Hitchcock was having lunch with David O. Selznick’s story editor Margaret McDonnell, the idea for Notorious was born. Hitchcock wanted to make a film about...
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‘Marnie’: Hitchcock’s Controversial Exploration of Sexual Violence and the...
The film that started out as a critical failure, labeled as the weakest link in the maestro’s string of high-quality cinematic treats, over time developed into one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most praised...
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The Story of ‘Saboteur’, Hitchcock’s First Truly American Film
When Alfred Hitchcock came to the United States at the end of the 1930s, having been making films in England for twenty years, it took some time for his film production to fully adapt to his new...
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Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: The Unrelenting Male Gaze that Blurs the Lines Between...
By Koraljka Suton It is no secret that the late Alfred Hitchcock was—and still is—not only one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, but also the “Master of Suspense.” After having...
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