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Posts Tagged "Daphne du Maurier"

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The Scapegoat *** (1959, Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Irene Worth, Nicole Maurey, Pamela Brown, Geoffrey Keen, Peter Bull) – Classic Movie Review 2826

Director Robert Hamer’s 1959 British black and white crime mystery thriller movie The Scapegoat offers Alec Guinness the luxury of two roles as a French count called Jacques De Gué, who plans to kills his rich […]

Aug, 18

My Cousin Rachel **** (1952, Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 2368

Director Henry Koster’s romantic 1952 mystery melodrama comes from the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the author of Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and The Birds, all filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. It would have made perfect material […]

Apr, 06

Don’t Look Now ***** (1973, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Leopoldo Trieste) – Classic Movie Review 681

The dazzling, chilling and eerily disturbing 1973 pyschic chiller Don’t Look Now, based on Daphne du Maurier’s story, is easily esteemed British director Nicolas Roeg’s most popular and successfully realised film. A perfectly paired Julie […]

Jan, 12

Rebecca ***** (1940, Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 72

Based on Daphne du Maurier’s famed novel, Hitchcock’s atypical romantic melodrama from 1940 is the middle film of a trio Hitch adapted from the author’s work between Jamaica Inn and The Birds. It spins the […]

Jul, 20

The Birds ***** (1963, Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright) – Classic Movie Review 18

Based on a tale by Daphne du Maurier, author of two other of his film adaptations, Rebecca and Jamaica Inn, the 1963 horror mystery drama The Birds is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most distinguished, unnerving […]

Jul, 04

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