Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This serving of true love on a technicolor platter, is just a little more than routine. Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten, though uninspired, still show a high degree of polish and workmanship. And the same can be said of Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the picture. The latter is responsible for a few deft touches, but did little else to add artistic interest...
...Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) puts Ingrid Bergman to work under one of the heaviest handicaps of her career. At best, the story is a florid historical romance; at its worst it is little better than hysterical drugstore fiction. Even tricked out with Technicolor and the skillfully elegant direction of Alfred Hitchcock, if remains a tedious and dispiriting yarn...
Have a Chair. The famed Hitchcock chairs, sold from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...
...year later, the HLU could look at its accounts and see that the only big money-makers were two Chaplin "Festivals," and Hitchcock's "39 Steps." "Chapayev," "Native Son," and the documentaries, all lost money. Few subsequent programs have...
Actually, Gayden's plot is very much along the lines of the flock of stories growing out of Chicago's famous Leopold-Loeb case, the latest being Alfred Hitchcock's movie "Rope." Most of these were successful because they contrasted the superficially impeccable manners and morals of bad boys with their actual criminal actions. But this boy is so obnoxious, on and off stage, that his nefarious activities are neither surprising nor particularly interesting. Gayden in one of the most thoroughly despicable people to appear on the stage in a long time. He's all right if you're entertained...