Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
PERSON, PLACE AND THING-Karl Jay Shapiro-Reynal & Hitchcock...
Journey Into Fear (RKO-Radio) is Orson Welles's first cinema journey into the field of mystery melodrama. Welles shows himself a careful student of Alfred Hitchcock, but he falls far short of the Old Master. Journey Into Fear also falls short of the best Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amber sons...
...create terror and suspense, Welles employs familiar Hitchcock tricks of bizarre lighting and ominous disappearances, and adds some of his own. The picture's unusually pregnant photography always suggests much more than it shows. It makes effective use of a portable phonograph, whose cracked, tinny tune, signaling another killing at each playing, steadily grows in horror. The film is also notable for a terrifying performance by Jack Moss as a tubby Nazi killer...
...never attains the excitement of the Eric Ambler novel on which it is based. Orson Welles overacts; Dolores Del Rio, as a dancer who tries to take the engineer's mind off his fears, has a superfluous part, and Joseph Gotten does not match his excellent performance in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (TIME...