opinion: Twenty years later, Sir Alfred did another version in American soil. This early version is a low budget one and Peter Lorre first english speaking movie. It has some comic scenes mixed in the thriller. It´s not even one of the Master beter movies, but it has is own place on the silver screen history. … Continue reading The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Category: Alfred Hitchcock
"... I’m going through a Hitchcockian period; every week I go and see again two or three of those films of his that have been reissued; there’s no doubt at all, he’s the greatest, the most complete, the most illuminating, the most beautiful, the most powerful, the most experimental and the luckiest; he’s been touched by a kind of grace. François Truffaut, letter, 1961 ..."
It´s only a movie, he used to say! I got scared when I watched "The Birds" for the first time. I think I was 12 or 13 years old by the time. But somehow I got fascinated how this guy could produce this kind of fear on a black and white movie, when everybody wants Technicolor. … Continue reading Sir Alfred Hitchcock on my movie library
Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delight when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies club as well as the bank president where his brother-in-law works. Young Charlie begins to notice some odd behavior on his part, such as cutting out a story in the local paper about a man who marries and then murders rich widows. When two strangers appear asking questions about him, she begins to imagine the worst about her dearly beloved uncle Charlie.
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
The Movies I have seen! 