Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear that Author Helen MacInnes has studied the slick screen thrillers of her compatriot Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, etc.). Her first novel makes fast reading. Speeded up to her master's pace, it would make still better screening...
...their vacation at the disposal of the British Intelligence. Their assignment: to find out whether a certain invaluable British secret agent was still functioning in Central Europe. Their qualifications: native intelligence and the fact that, as genteel trippers, they are Above Suspicion. Result: a tense maze of typically Hitchcock bit players, business and hairbreadth escapes...
...Hoover's spectacular weekend pounce, 32 men & women were in jail. Among the captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said...
Hollywood, especially since the advent of Alfred Hitchcock, has been flooding the movie houses with suspense stories, but few of these can equal the suspense that is built up in Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones." If you perched on the edge of your seat in "The Lady Vanishes," you will be a nervous wreck after "Emperor Jones" as it is being presented by the New England Repertory company...
RIVER RAT-Daniel Lundberq-Rey-nal & Hitchcock...