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2 days ago · The Lady Vanishes (1938)98%. #5. Critics Consensus: One of Alfred Hitchcock's last British films, this glamorous thriller provides an early glimpse of the director at his most stylishly entertaining. Synopsis: On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche.
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Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan (Farley...
- North by Northwest
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- Shadow of a Doubt
Rated: 4.5/5 Aug 25, 2022 Full Review Walter Chaw Film Freak...
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Alfred Hitchcock's 30 Best Movies. 1. Rear Window (1954) PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller. A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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- To Catch A Thief
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Spellbound
- Rope
- Rebecca
- The Birds
- The 39 Steps
- The Lady Vanishes
- Shadow of A Doubt
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Right after Rear Window, Hitchcock reunited with Grace Kelly for the breezier, enchanting To Catch a Thief. Based on the 1952 novel of the same name, the comedic caper also stars Cary Grant,as a reformed cat burglar attempting to catch an imitator as he woos the beautiful daughter of a wealthy widow. To Catch A Thief is lighter Hitchcock, but this ...
This is the one time in six decades that Hitchcock remade his own work. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a reworking of Hitch’s 1934 British film of the same name (both are genuinely great thrillers). In the remake, megastars James Stewart and Doris Day are riveting and sympathetic as desperate parents seeking their kidnapped son. They’re innocent peop...
Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman are characteristically spellbinding in an Oscar-winning mystery about a psychoanalyst who falls for an amnesiac who may or may not be a murderer. Spellbound doesn't measure up to immediate successor Notorious, but it's still a must-see for any fan of the director, or classic films in general. It's a strange, uneven a...
Rope stands out as the black sheep of Hitchcock's most famous films, and it's only gotten better with age. Farley Granger and John Dall star as preppy youths (overtly gay characters who just barely made it past the censor board) who commit a murder mainly for a thrill, and Jimmy Stewart plays the only man who can unravel their sick plan. The thrill...
Based on Daphne du Maurier’s bestseller, Rebecca is about a plain woman who wins the heart of a cynical widower. Rebecca’s romantic leads (Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine) are perfectly cast, and the story about a couple haunted by ghosts of the past is as riveting as ever more than 80 years later. Gone With the Wind mega-producer David O. Selzn...
At the zenith of his popularity and filmmaking craft, Hitchcock mined enormous thrills from a very slim Daphne du Maurier novella about nature gone to hell. If The Birds doesn’t have the psychological depth of some of the director’s other biggest hits, it’s a timeless showcase of his technical prowess. A mini masterpiece of tension sees a small arm...
Though Hitchcock had been directing films for nearly a decade (his first film was The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog in 1926), The 39 Steps is his first masterpiece. Based on the 1915 adventure novel of the same name by John Buchan about an everyman civilian (Robert Donat) who is unwittingly entangled in an international espionage plot (wrongful...
Hitchcock’s penultimate film in his native Britain before a shift to Hollywood is the best work of this early period. Based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins, it’s a perfectly paced story about an English tourist (Margaret Lockwood) who stumbles into a conspiracy as she pursues a missing elderly travel companion. The Lady Vanishes blends humor, rom...
The idea of pure evil hiding out in a small American town was novel in 1943—in Hitchcock’s favorite of his own films, co-written by Thornton Wilder. Shadow of a Doubt is still a deeply creepy film to this day, starring fresh-faced Teresa Wright as a young girl who slowly discovers her dear Uncle Charlie’s (Joseph Cotten) sinister past (spoiler: he’...
A misunderstanding between a young tennis player (Farley Granger) and a charismatic psychopath (Robert Walker) leads to a swirling mess of murder and menace in one of Hitchcock's most stylish and perfectly paced thrill rides (the hair-raising finale, fittingly, takes place on an out-of-control carnival ride). Based on the 1950 Patricia Highsmith no...
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- 'Shadow of a Doubt' (1943) Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey. Shadow of a Doubt was the movie that Hitchcock viewed most favorably out of all the movies he directed.
- 'Dial M for Murder' (1954) Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings. There were two very good Alfred Hitchcock thrillers starring Grace Kelly released in 1954, with Dial M for Murder inevitably placing second.
- 'The Lady Vanishes' (1938) Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas. Naturally, Alfred Hitchcock's American movies tend to get a little more recognition than his British films.
- 'Lifeboat' (1944) Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak. There's always something thrilling about movies with limited locations, and within this sub-genre of thrillers, Lifeboat stands out.
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- Vertigo (1958) James Stewart and Kim Novak in 'Vertigo' (Rex) A critical and public failure on its release, no Hitchcock film has enjoyed such a complete critical turnaround as Vertigo, which in 2012 took pole position in Sight and Sound’s greatest movie list and remains the foremost example of the master’s dark genius.
- Psycho (1960) Legendary, notorious, reviled, revered, much imitated and infinitely influential, Hitchcock himself described his first horror film as a shocker and, even after all these years, the master’s supreme achievement still has the power to shock and awe in equal measure.
- Notorious (1946) FBI agent Cary Grant ruthlessly and dispassionately uses his lover Ingrid Bergman to flush out Nazis in South America in the aftermath of the Second World War.
- North by Northwest (1959) How I envy anyone viewing this rollercoaster tongue-in-cheek comedy-thriller for the first time, with its implausible but glorious set pieces and marvellous performances from Cary Grant as the bewildered advertising executive mistaken for someone who didn’t even exist in the first place, and James Mason as the impossibly urbane villain.
6 days ago · Hitchcock even changed the way movies were seen. Here is a list of his 20 greatest movies—a must-read for all true cinephiles. 1. Alfred Hitchcock’s Best Movie: North by Northwest (1959) North by Northwest, 1959, via IMDB. This quintessential spy thriller shows Hitchcock at the height of his powers.
Dec 24, 2023 · Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most influential directors of all time, and his best movies stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the irrefutable classics of cinema. Hitchcock pioneered many filmmaking techniques and storytelling devices which are still in use today, including long takes, MacGuffins, and the subjective camera.
