Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock smartly threads theatrical ‘Rope’ (1948)

“Rope” (1948) makes it onto a lot of Alfred Hitchcock top 10 lists despite being his simplest story. (SPOILERS FOLLOW, in the sense that this

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‘Strangers on a Train’ (1951) a first-class suspenser

The Alfred Hitchcock classic “Strangers on a Train” (1951) starts with a hooky premise, then keeps a viewer engaged with twists and turns. It begins

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‘Foreign Correspondent’ (1940) lauds journalists but isn’t about journalism

“Foreign Correspondent” (1940) is one of the “underrated” Alfred Hitchcock movies. But when a body of work is so thoroughly scrutinized, it’s hard to find

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‘The Lady Vanishes’ (2013) is a lovely dramatic counterpoint

Seventy-five years after Alfred Hitchcock made a lightly comedic version of “The Lady Vanishes” from Ethel Lina White’s “The Wheel Spins” (1936), we got a

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Intrigue disappears behind comedy in ‘The Lady Vanishes’ (1938)

Four years after Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” chronicled a mystery on a snowed-in train in Eastern Europe, Afred Hitchcock did the same

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‘Psycho’ remake (1998) stands as a fascinating experiment

We all go a little mad sometimes, so from Nov. 27-Dec. 11 we’re dragging the swamp behind the Bates Motel for insight into the films

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Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ (1960) a masterpiece of tension

We all go a little mad sometimes, so from Nov. 27-Dec. 11 we’ll be dragging the swamp behind the Bates Motel for insight into the

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Before ‘Bates Motel’: ‘Psycho’ (1959) (Book review)

Welcome to a new series where I look back at the books and movies of the “Psycho” franchise before its revival in “Bates Motel,” one

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