"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
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North by Northwest (1959)Created about 6 months ago
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This non-stop masterpiece of suspense continues countless themes and story elements explored earlier in Hitchcock's stellar back catalogue: mistaken identity, murder, MacGuffins, mystery and more. Sandwiched in-between perennial favorites Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960) [perhaps the best three-year...
Alfred Hitchcock : "Hitch and I had a rapport and understanding deeper than words... He was so incredibly well-prepared. I never knew anyone as capable. He was a tasteful, intelligent, decent, and patient man who knew the actor's business as well as he knew his own." --Cary Grant
Alfred Hitchcock : One doesn't direct Cary Grant, one simply puts him in front of a camera. And, you see, he enables the audience to identify with the main character. I mean by that, Cary Grant represents a man we know. He's not a stranger."
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Show description: Stories of terror, horror and suspense presented by Alfred Hitchcock.
by Laurent Bouzereau - 17Aug92: Blackmail was Alfred Hitchcock’s tenth picture in England, his second thriller and first British talkie—and it marked an important crossroads in film history. Hi...
by Leonard Leff - 1Jul90: As David O. Selznick put Gone with the Wind into production in the late 1930s, he realized that he needed help with other pictures on the studio schedule...
by Rudy Behlmer - 27Feb90: Everyone has a favorite Hitchcock film. But when the votes are counted, Notorious always seems to be in the top three or four—and often number one. Considering how many films the master of suspense directed over several decades, this says a great deal. ...
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The wittiest, most sophisticated thriller ever made, North by Northwest is one of the crowning achievements in the careers of its director, Alfred Hitchcock, and its star, Cary Grant. Released in 1959 to both critical and public acclaim, this classic spy chase comedy has gone on to take its place as...
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Movie thrillers may come and go, but after half a century, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps still reigns supreme. And not only for the sheer, breathless excitement of the story; the seamless construction; the chilling, beautifully realized atmosphere; and the constant, startling stream of plot twists...
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The Secret Agent (1936) came to life in the prime of Alfred Hitchcock’s British period. It arrived between the popular triumph of The 39 Steps and the box-office rejection of Sabotage, a more daringly downbeat work. ...
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Alfred Hitchcock committed a shocking murder in Sabotage (1936). Here, in one of the director’s darkest works, a child unknowingly carrying a bomb is blown to pieces in the streets of London. The death ...
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In Young and Innocent (1937) Alfred Hitchcock uses all the signs in his visual vocabulary to tell one of his favorite stories: fugitive hero unjustly accused of murder. Yet this is also a story of youth and innocence triumphant—a light entertainment, a souffle made by a master chef. ...
