Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night Train (20th Century-Fox). Dumpy British Director Alfred Hitchcock set a standard for mystery films with The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes which the U. S. cinema industry has never been able to touch. Night Train and Blackout (TIME, Nov. 25) show that Hitchcock's departure for Hollywood before World War II failed to deprive the British cinema of its special bent for prolonging a nerve-racking state of suspense over an almost unbearable period of time...
Although Night Train, directed by Carol Reed, lacks the polish of its Hitchcock predecessors, its sustained excitement is agonizing. Those who saw The Lady Vanishes will be pleased to rediscover the two cricket-playing English gentlemen of that film (Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne), who interrupt the plot's progress at the tensest moments to discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with...
MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS-Reginald H. Wilenski-Reynal & Hitchcock...
Second feature, British National Films' "Blackout," is an exciting, improbable yarn full of Nazi spics and modern Mata Haris. This bit of propaganda carries all the suspense of Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," but it loses a good bit of punch by splitting the male lead amongst Conrad Veidt, the Union Jack, and Denmark's national anthem...
...went through his dance steps in the New York horse show last month, and the new President has made many gringo friends by way of his two-goal polo, which is sharpened to the verge of three-goal by clever, tricky play. His favorite polo pony is named Lady Hitchcock, after Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...