Hitchcock himself coined the advertising slogan for this late career classic: “The Birds is coming!” He also (allegedly) took pleasure in torturing leading lady Tippi Hedren by arranging for live birds to be thrown at her face after she had rejected his sexual advances. So it may be that some of her apparent terror at…
Foreign Correspondent
1940s Foreign Correspondent isn’t one of the best known Hitchcocks but it’s one of my favourites of all his movies. Joel McCrea stars as the wise-cracking US correspondent sent to Europe in the days before World War II who encounters kidnapping, murder and treachery across the continent. There is also fine and funny support from…
Frenzy
Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock’s penultimate film, is somewhat divisive. Hitchcock returned to the UK after many years in Hollywood to deliver undoubtedly the nastiest (and arguably most misogynistic) of his movies. Hitch takes advantage of relaxing censorship to deliver some very graphic, brutal murder set-pieces. Its something of a return to form, however, after the very boring…
To Catch A Thief
To Catch A Thief is one of the lighter Hitchcocks. It is notably lacking in much suspense, but coasts along nicely on on the star pairing of Hitchcock favourites Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and charming French Riviera ocations. Grant plays an ex-Resistance fighter and retired cat burglar, who has to track down an imposter…
Psycho
Here is another great little Belgian poster addition to my Alfred Hitchcock gallery. Psycho is of course one of The Master’s most famous movies, and for good reason. Knowing the plot now, its hard to imagine how audiences would have reacted back in 1960 seeing it for the first time. In the days before internet…
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has been ranked in recent polls of film critics as the greatest movie of all time. I have to respectfully disagree with that. Its not even my favourite Hitchcock film – not by a long shot! I must admit I find it very slow and boring, which is one of the reasons…
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Rear Window
Rear Window is one of Hitchcock’s greatest movies, indeed one of the greatest movies ever. Hitchcock ingeniously makes full use of the single location set to explore one of his favourite themes: voyeurism. James Stewart plays a photographer with a broken leg, driven to distraction by boredom cooped up in his apartment, who amuses himself…
Torn Curtain
Here are a pair of posters for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1966 thriller Torn Curtain. Like several of Hitch’s later movies, Torn Curtain is rather uneven, old-fashioned and boring in places. I saw it years again on TV and have not revisited it since. Stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews try hard, but don’t have much chemistry…