Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion-picture booking, usually in a hateful conspiracy against movie patrons, have produced something unique at Keith's: a double bill with two pictures in the "best" category. "The Lady Vanishes" is one of the finest things ever to come from England. It is a directorial masterpiece, for Alfred Hitchcock has taken discouraging material--an ordinary spy mystery--and has, characteristically, brewed from it a tense, gripping drama. With his uncanny skill in ordering the presentation of his material, he succeeds in building up punishing suspense, and, moreover, manages to do what few, if any, other directors can do--maintain...
...RAMPARTS WE WATCH-George F. Eliot-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI -Reynal & Hitchcock...
...RAMPARTS WE WATCH-George Fielding Eliot-Reynal & Hitchcock...
More popular in England than in the U. S., Hitchcock pictures like The 39 Steps, Secret Agent are often too intricately built and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...