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Great Directors: Alfred Hitchcock (The Puppetmaster) Part 2
Shadow Of A Doubt [DVD] [1942]Shadow Of A Doubt [DVD] [1942]
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One of Hitchcock’s most satisfying thrillers, mostly thanks to Wright and Cotten’s believable relationship. A brilliantly directed thriller. 5/5
Lifeboat [DVD] [1944]Lifeboat [DVD] [1944]
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Along with the psychological intrigue there is romance and wit. And fans will enjoy Hitch’s most amusing trademark cameo: photographed as ‘before’ and ‘after’ silhouettes in a newspaper ad. 5/5
Spellbound [1945] [DVD]Spellbound [1945] [DVD]
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A distinctive, well made film, worth seeing by any Hitchcock fan. 4/5
Notorious [1946] [DVD]Notorious [1946] [DVD]
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Difficult love, Nazis, and a lovely soupy plot...brilliant. 5/5
Paradine Case [DVD] [1947]Paradine Case [DVD] [1947]
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A fine cast in a slow moving, but very interesting drama. 3/5
Rope [DVD] [1948]Rope [DVD] [1948]
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More Than Just a Technical Achievement, this film is a triumph of the creation of suspence though privelaged audience knowledge, 5/5
Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn [DVD]Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn [DVD]
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This has many more plus points than critics at the time were willing to admit. 3/5
Stage Fright [DVD]Stage Fright [DVD]
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Not up there with his best, but worth a look to see scene stealing Marlene Dietrich. 3/5
Strangers On A Train [DVD] [1951]Strangers On A Train [DVD] [1951]
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Magnificent absurdist crime drama from the master of suspense. The plot is complicated as hell, but the film is excellent. 5/5
I Confess [DVD]I Confess [DVD]
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It'll never be remembered as a Hitchcock classic by any stretch, but that is far from saying it's the mess that some regard it as. It's entertaining, and the visuals speak volumes. 3/5
Dial M for Murder [DVD]Dial M for Murder [DVD]
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Despite Hitchcock's own reservations this is among his best. Interesting to his aficionados and darkly funny and depressing in turns. 5/5
Rear Window [DVD] [1954]Rear Window [DVD] [1954]
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A filmic excersise becomes brilliantly realised in another masterpiece. The suspense level goes through the roof, and it is the most vouyeristic film in Hitch's CV. 5/5
To Catch A Thief [DVD] [1955]To Catch A Thief [DVD] [1955]
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Lesser Hitch, but still superb entertainment. 4/5
The Trouble With Harry [DVD] [1955]The Trouble With Harry [DVD] [1955]
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A small, quirky, but entertaining comedy-thriller. Watch out for a very young Shirley McClaine. 3/5
The Man Who Knew Too Much [DVD] [1955]The Man Who Knew Too Much [DVD] [1955]
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Hitchcock remade his own film to great effect, far far better than the original. 4/5
Wrong Man, the [DVD]Wrong Man, the [DVD]
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"The Wrong Man" is a very sad and touching story of the injustice against an innocent man, affecting the health of his family. 4/5
Vertigo - 50th Anniversary Special Edition [DVD] [1958]Vertigo - 50th Anniversary Special Edition [DVD] [1958]
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Hitchcock's best movie. A thrilling, haunting, mesmerising thriller that is generally placed in the top 10 movies of all time, and rightly so. 5/5
North By Northwest [1959] [DVD]North By Northwest [1959] [DVD]
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Hitchcock's most entertaining and explosive film features the best scene of his career: the crop duster. Brilliant stuff. 5/5
Psycho (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1960]Psycho (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1960]
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Hugley influential and absolutely terrifying, Psycho is the greatest horror movie ever made, and then some. 5/5
The Birds [DVD] [1963]The Birds [DVD] [1963]
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Hitch's last masterpiece is up there in the horror cannon with a certain other famous film of his. 5/5
Marnie [DVD] [1964]Marnie [DVD] [1964]
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An intense, suspensfilled physcological thriller with top noch performances from Herden and Connery. 4/5
Torn Curtain [DVD] [1966]Torn Curtain [DVD] [1966]
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Not Hitch's best by any means, but still pretty good compared with most other directors. 3/5
Topaz [DVD] [1969]Topaz [DVD] [1969]
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Although not as humorous, romantic, exciting as the director's best films, the movie is nonetheless an intelligent and intriguing spy drama, resonating spy films to be seen in the 70s. 3/5
Frenzy [DVD] [1972]Frenzy [DVD] [1972]
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Hitchcock's darkest film, it has elements of all of his earlier films (wrong man, fetishes, muder) cleverly given a very dark twist. 4/5
Family Plot [DVD] [1976]Family Plot [DVD] [1976]
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Hitchcock's swansong, remarkble that it feels very rooted in the 70s, considering this is a man who began making movies in the silent era. 3/5