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...hatbox. But the best of it is the moment in which Hitchcock dares to break his climax wide open to get a laugh -and gets away with it. When the New York cops run to the rescue, the film, just for an instant, runs in fast motion, producing a constabular celerity that has not been observed since the days of the Keystone Kops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...ordered the telephone exchange shut down, lest any information be phoned to the enemy. He proclaimed a curfew. He ordered the town cop to get out of his grey-green, swastika-decorated uniform before someone shot him, and temporarily to carry on his constabular duties in civilian clothes, wearing a brassard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: Ruling the Conquered | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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