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Brian Donlevy is back as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1957 British sci-fi horror film Quatermass 2, the second in Hammer’s trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC TV serials. American star Brian Donlevy is back to […]
Director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville make rather heavy weather of their struggle with their 1929 movie adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s doomy successful classic play about a hard-pressed family living in the slums of Dublin […]
Produced by British International Pictures, The Skin Game (1931) is worth a little look but it is a mostly fairly tedious experience, and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s least interesting movies, probably just of interest for Hitchcock […]
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 […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s lively, imaginative 1929 pioneering thriller film Blackmail is remarkable as Britain’s first talking picture. It’s a treasured relic of a bygone era. A highly impressive piece of work considering its age and filming […]
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