Hitchcock Classics (10 titles)
My top ten Hitchcock favourites
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Vertigo
Excellent psychological thriller with stunning San Francisco locations. If ever a film needed repeat viewings its this one. Probably James Stewart's darkest role.
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Vertigo
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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DVD special features: The Birds: All About The Birds - Making Of, Tippi Hedren's Screen Test, Universal News Reel Stories x 2, Storyboard Sequence: Deleted Scene (Script Pages), Alternative Ending (Sketches & Storyboards), Production Photographs. Family Plot: Plotting Family Plot - Making Of, ..read more »
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North by Northwest
Hitch's slickest chase movie defines the formula for the early Bond films.
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North by Northwest
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
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The 39 Steps
The high point of Hitchcock's early career. The wrong man, set piece locations, smooth talking villian - all the classic ingredients of a chase movie.
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The 39 Steps
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A classic British spy mystery, and one of Hitchcock's best, THE 39 STEPS is the story of an innocent man who struggles to prove his innocence. Robert Donat gets more than he bargained for when he brings home a mysterious woman who confesses to be a British agent on the hot trail of a dangerous spy ..read more »
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Rear Window
Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart spy on the neighbours and ooze sexual tension.
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Rear Window
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad ..read more »
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Psycho
The commercial highlight of Hitchcock's career.
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Psycho
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Credited with inventing the genre of the modern horror film, PSYCHO has had its share of sequels and imitators, none of which diminishes the achievement of this shocking and complex horror thriller. Alfred Hitchcock's choreography of elements in PSYCHO is considered so perfect it inspired a shot-by-..read more »
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Notorious
Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman team up to break Claude Reines' spy operation.
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Notorious
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Though Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious was produced by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, Selznick himself had little to do with the production, which undoubtedly pleased the highly independent Hitchcock. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, who goes to hell in a handbasket after her father, an ..read more »
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Saboteur
5th columnists at work in America during the second world war. Great closing in New York City and atop the Statue of Liberty
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Saboteur
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Norman Lloyd
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A forerunner to Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST, SABOTEUR is the story of defense plant worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings), who stands falsely accused of planning a factory explosion that killed his good friend. Recognizing that he has been set up and that no one is likely to believe his story, ..read more »
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Shadow Of A Doubt
Hitchcock takes his unique brand of suspense into 40's American suburbia.
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Shadow Of A Doubt
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Hume Cronyn
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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The 'Merry Widow' murderer comes to stay in Santa Rosa...
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Foreign Correspondent
High on propaganda the imminent world war looms large. Another of Hitch's successful 'wrong man' chase films.
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Foreign Correspondent
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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It is 1939 and Johnny Jones, a naive police reporter, is sent by his even more naive boss to cover a "crime" story that's unfolding in Europe: the potential outbreak of a second world war. Unprepared for the dangerous political landscape he's entering, Johnny manages to land smack in the middle of ..read more »
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Margaret Lockwood Collection - The Lady Vanishes
Another early gem.
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Margaret Lockwood Collection - The Lady ...
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Patricia Roc, Stewart Granger, Michael Redgrave
Director: Val Guest, Carol Reed, Roy William Neill
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In 'The 39 Steps' a man is caught between the police and enemy agents. In 'The Lady Vanishes' two people investigate the disappearance of an old lady from a train, only to discover a plot to pretend she was never on the train in the first place. In 'The Secret Agent' a bizarre cat and mouse game is ..read more »
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