Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best Walter Wanger tradition, "The Long Voyage Home" opens new prospects to moviedom. It carries the technique of suspense beyond the stage of "Foreign Correspondent." Hitchcock's suspense is inherently melodramatic, whereas John Ford's is self-contained atmosphere, bovering over a plot of merely secondary importance. The subject of "The Long Voyage Home" is mainly an impression, a dismal portrait of futility...
...immensely difficult to pick out things to criticize or correct in this show. It lacks that in-definable something, pace, that something which Alfred Hitchcock can give to a movie and which Kaufman and Hart are usually capable of imparting to their brain children. In two weeks it may be entirely different; Mr. Kaufman's opening night notes may give him the clue to the necessary revision and by the time it nits Broadway it may be fast enough to please Winchell...
...makers of "Foreign Correspondent" the War is a matter of purely secondary importance. To Mr. Alfred Hitchcock in particular it is merely a road to his happy hunting grounds--a weird land of rain and mist where he can revel in his clement, suspense. Genially he takes you on a tour through croaking old windmills and murky side streets, pointing out the sights until your eyes bulge out of their sockets, and enjoying his own depravity intensely. For Mr. Hitchcock is a sadist, and "Foreign Correspondent" is a rhapsody in sadism, an apotheosis of the Horrid...
...have only talked of Mr. Hitchcock, and it is not quite unjustified that this should be so. For, however capable the performances of Joel McCrea and Albert Bassermann, however funny the prating of Robert Benchley, they are all but puppets in the Master's hands. Likewise the wild story about the kidnapping of a Dutch statesman by a Nazi spy-ring is more form than contents. The only concession to reality is the final appeal to the United States to steel herself against aggression a scene of piercing terror which shows Mr. Hitchcock still in firm control. To the very...
Representing the sporting world are Tommy Hitchcock's son and William Bingham Jr. Both intend to compete in their father's sports and have shown signs of proficiency. Hitchcock polos in Westbury Long Island and should bolster the malletmen in their attempt to equal the Forbes field, while Bingham competed in track at Choate. He runs dashes and the half mile...