Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of “Mr Memory”‘s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. Read More »
Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies Read More »
The Trouble with Harry (1955) Alfred Hitchcock, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn
There is a dead well-dressed man in a meadow clearing in the hills above a small Vermont town. Read More »
Juno and the Paycock (1930) Alfred Hitchcock, Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Barry Fitzgerald
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. Read More »
Rich and Strange (1931) Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont
Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. Read More »
Topaz (1969) Alfred Hitchcock, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
When a Soviet official defects to the United States, he brings with him claims that Russia is using Cuba as a staging ground for nuclear missiles. Read More »
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, Jessie Matthews
Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Read More »
Torn Curtain (1966) Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
Professor Michael Armstrong is heading to Stockholm to attend a physics conference accompanied by his assistant-fiancée Sarah Sherman. Read More »
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Alfred Hitchcock, Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) visits his relatives in Santa Rosa. Read More »
Secret Agent (1936) Alfred Hitchcock, John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young
During the first world war, novelist Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland by the Intelligence Service. Read More »
Blackmail (1929) Alfred Hitchcock, Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920’s London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in police work than in her. Read More »
Memory of the Camps (2014) Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Jasper Britton, Adolf Hitler, Sidney Bernstein, Documentary
On 29 September 1945, the incomplete rough-cut of a disturbing yet compelling documentary revealing the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps Read More »
The Wrong Man (1956) Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero – Manny to his friends – is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. Read More »
Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. Read More »
Murder! (1930) Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The police find the actress, Diana Baring, near the body of her friend. All the circumstantial proofs seems to point to her and, at the end of the trial, she is condemned. Read More »