A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets. I may need to ask for your advice on how to make the links for each title I post about. No wonder it took me so long to see it. I finally caught up with STAGE FRIGHT for the first time when it played on TCM a couple of years ago and it was just terrible, a real chore to sit through.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an English director and filmmaker. I’ve never seen his films of that era.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer. This is also the first film Hitchcock calls a true Hitchcock film. A tennis player tries to arrange his wife's murder after learning of her affair. A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent.
A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. He is one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Regarding The Man Who Knew Too Much, I’ve seen the Jimmy Stewart Doris Day version, but not the earlier Peter Lorre version. So that will be interesting. All this collecting was to acquire titles that are favorites and will have multiple viewings. A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man. I didn’t quite understand the John Steinbeck connection. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
53 items on this list; 61% Average Rating; 89h 44m Total Runtime; $178.3M Total Revenue This is true for all his silent films! A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer. Eventually, I was planning to watch all these titles. The only Hollywood films of Hitchcock's I still haven't seen are UNDER CAPRICORN (1949) and I CONFESS (1953).
That was why I was collecting them. Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death. After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences. And I’ve been saving the Criterion ones. A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West. I hadn’t thought of getting into the TV series. See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel. A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. His directorial debut was the 1925 release The Pleasure Garden.
Most titles I’ve acquired I’ve seen before. I finally caught up with STAGE FRIGHT for the first time when it played on TCM a couple of years ago and it was just terrible, a real chore to sit through. Good Evening: An Alfred Hitchcock Podcast Brandon-Shea Mutala After Shows 5.0, 1 Rating; Listen on Apple Podcasts. In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber. Personally, I have 39 of his films in my collection, and that is exactly the number of his films that I've seen. A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. The only Hollywood films of Hitchcock's I still haven't seen are UNDER CAPRICORN (1949) and I CONFESS (1953).
A man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.
I just assumed. Known as the "Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents(1955–1965)…