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Number Seventeen **** (1932, John Stuart, Anne Grey, Leon M Lion) – Classic Movie Review 573

John Stuart stars as police detective Gilbert Fordyce, who is searching for a necklace and is on the trail of a gang of clever jewel thieves who stole it, in Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage 1932 British […]

Dec, 24

Mr & Mrs Smith ***½ (1941, Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 572

Alfred Hitchcock’s single effort at making one of the screwball marital comedy movies that were so in vogue at the time, Mr & Mrs Smith (1941), was made as a personal favour to his friend […]

Dec, 24

Family Plot **** (1976, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane) – Classic Movie Review 464

Alfred Hitchcock’s 53rd and final movie Family Plot, made in 1976 when he was 76, is a deliciously playful, witty farewell. He called it ‘a melodrama treated with a bit of levity and sophistication. I want […]

Dec, 02

Topaz **** (1969, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, John Forsythe, Philippe Noiret) – Classic Movie Review 463

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 spy thriller Topaz is one of his least interesting films, despite being based Leon Uris’s top bestselling novel. But it remains entirely watchable thanks some fine performances and a few typical Hitchcock […]

Dec, 02

Young and Innocent [The Girl Was Young] **** (1937, Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, Basil Radford, George Curzon) – Classic Movie Review 462

In 1937 Alfred Hitchcock freely adapts Josephine Tey’s classic crime novel A Shilling for Candles as one of his archetypal free-wheeling, fast-moving, witty bantering pursuit thrillers. Along with Strangers on a Train, The 39 Steps and […]

Dec, 01

Rich and Strange ** (1931, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont) – Classic Movie Review 460

This 1931 Alfred Hitchcock early sound film is surprisingly obvious, thin and conservative-minded, so it is a bit of a bad surprise from this director. It plays like a Victorian melodrama with a moral and […]

Nov, 30

The Mountain Eagle (1926, Bernhard Goetzke, Nita Naldi, Malcolm Keen) – Classic Movie Review 459

Alfred Hitchcock’s second film from 1926 enjoys unenviable status as one of silent cinema’s most famous missing movies and one of the most searched-for films in history. Indeed, it’s infamous now as the only Hitchcock […]

Nov, 30

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