“Blackmail” (1929) is one of the first British talkies, and that might’ve been exciting at the time, but it plays like modern 3D film when
When a novel, play or short story becomes an Alfred Hitchcock film, it gets promoted in prestige but demoted in the public consciousness to “source
Alfred Hitchcock often talked about how maguffins need not be defined; the audience just has to know it is important to the characters, and therefore
“Frenzy” (1972) is Alfred Hitchcock’s best British film – even though it’s his only British film after he switched to Hollywood, and it’s from his
“Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (1941) is infamously Alfred Hitchcock’s worst film because he operates like a hired hand, efficiently making a standard, unfunny rom-com. The
“Saboteur” (1942) gets somewhat lost among the great Alfred Hitchcock films. It is one of many about a common man who becomes a fugitive because
“Marnie” (1964) is an uneven film with bizarre behaviors by unlikeable people, the first of Alfred Hitchcock’s final five films that lack the wide acclaim
With his sixth sound film, “Number Seventeen” (1932, sometimes titled as “Number 17”), Alfred Hitchcock accidentally showcases his skill in action direction and editing. It’s
Alfred Hitchcock was not known for remaking other people’s films, but one example is 1929’s “The Manxman.” It follows a 1916 version, based on an
Since the beginning of movies, there have been boxing films. The sport was so quickly recognized as cinematic that by 1927, when writer-director Alfred Hitchcock