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Strangers on a Train

Terriffic thriller from the king of kink, Alfred Hitchcock. Features a strangely threatening and subtly homoerotic Robert Walker as the villain, while wholesome Farelly Granger struggles in vain to protect his reputation and his life.

Strangers on a Train on DVD (1951)
Starring: Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Farley Granger
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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In one of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics, tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) chances to meet wealthy wastrel Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train. Having read all about Guy, Bruno is aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to wife Miriam (Laura Elliott) and ..read more »
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Cape Fear

Mitchum scared me green in this and if you're half the man that I am, he will do the same to you!

Cape Fear on DVD (1961)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Original version of the thriller that sees a stranger terrify a small family...
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Metropolis

Beautiful and surprising film for it's time, a favourite of mine.

Metropolis (2 discs) (1927)
Starring: Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Rudolph Klein-Rogge
Director: Fritz Lang
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Directed by Fritz Lang, this acclaimed vision of a 21st century city is widely held to be one of the greatest films of the silent era. In the year 2000, industrialist John Frederson rules over a giant city where the workers exist only as an underclass. They call for rebellion, but their leader ..read more »
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The Night of the Hunter

Robert Mitchum again, playing out the struggle between the corruption and greed of an adult and the innocence of the children he tirelessly chases.

The Night of the Hunter on DVD (1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Don Beddoe, Evelyn Varden
Director: Charles Laughton
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Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with good represented by a couple of farm kids ..read more »
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Shadow of a Doubt

Suspicious goings on...not least the bizarre tension between an uncle and his neice in this atmospheric melodrama.

Shadow of a Doubt on DVD (1942)
Starring: Henry Travers, Clarence Muse, Joseph Cotten
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Hitchcock thriller. Young 'Charlie' Newton (Teresa Wright) longs for something exciting to happen to brighten her dull existence in Santa Rosa with parents Joseph (Henry Travers) and Emma (Patricia Collinge). The arrival of her Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) seems to be just what she needs: urbane, ..read more »
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M

Fritz Lang's story of a pathetic and insane child murderer who is hounded by police and German mafia.

M (1931)
Starring: Carl Balthaus, Erwin Faber, Josef Almas
Director: Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer ..read more »
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