Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produced by the Hungarian George Pal) or grandiose melodramas like Written on the Wind (directed by the Dane Douglas Sirk) or effervescent comedies like Some Like It Hot and The Apartment (both directed and co-written by the Austrian Billy Wilder) or the sleek thrillers of London-born Alfred Hitchcock. Audrey Hepburn, from Belgium, was crowned princess of the box office; Cary Grant, from Bristol, was still the monarch of masculinity. Everyone was so assimilated that you couldn't spot the immigrants without a security check. American films, once an obsession, were now an agreeable habit, as the rest...
...bets until three special investigators it had hired had checked the authenticity of all the material at hand. Norbert Sakowski, Bunte's deputy editor in chief, said that he was convinced the documents were genuine, "but I can't rule out the possibility that it might be a Hitchcock plot...
...scene with a child is the trial death; an actor is either upstaged or dragged down. Though one hates to badmouth someone who doesn'v yet have a complete set of teeth, Jason Harvey is really bad. He decants iambic as if he had taken elocution lessons from Alfred Hitchcock, and he can barely be understood past the eighth row. When there are at least a half-dozen undergraduate actors and actresses at Harvard who could have pulled off the role, Kilty's choice is worse than a crime; it is a blunder...
...willful propensity to exaggerate and misrepresent, Williams merits the scrutiny of a master biographer, capable of comprehending his personality, capturing his voice and explaining that unquenchable need for self-evocation. Donald Spoto might seem up to the task, based on his shrewd if unadmiring assessment of Alfred Hitchcock in The Dark Side of Genius. But Spoto's The Kindness of Strangers is merely thorough, precise and methodical. Almost perversely, it stops short of risking deep perception of the playwright or his plays: it focuses instead on a tedious hunt for the minutiae of names, addresses and trivial incidents that made...
Dewitt can handle it, of course, having taken Professor Hitchcock's film course. "The Psychological Thriller in the 50's and 60's," last fall. Should a brush-up be necessary. Rear Window (Science Center B) is circulating again and so is your loving child's brilliant essay about...