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...rides and murky skies, pistol shots and the aroma of intrigue. Charles Laughton and Director Hitchock have joined forces, gathered around them an imposing array of writers and actors, and produced one of the best pictures of the year. The flamboyance of Laughton and the high-strung tension of Hitchcock direction complement each other perfectly. The result is high adventure worthy of Dumas combined with the trip-hammer pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed...
...Poloists Pete Bostwick, Bobby Gerry, Ebby Gerry and Eric Tyrrell-Martin of England (entered as Bostwick Field): the U. S. Open Polo Championship; defeating Jock Whitney's Greentree team (Peter Grace, Bob Skene of Australia, Tommy Hitchcock and Jock Whitney) in the final, 8-to-7; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...
...hunters what G-Men did for the FBI in 1935. A timely, slapdash nerve-racker, it has none of the sophisticated humor with which, in such superbly organized spy thrillers as The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, smart British Director-Producer Alfred Hitchcock makes improbable situations plausible. Espionage Agent is filled with as many improbabilities as spies, and it is almost as hard to avoid spotting them...
...Ethel Vance" is a pseudonym for someone whom the publishers say they have good reason not to name. The book might be the product of an impossible collaboration by Kay Boyle, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Sayers, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock. Its atmospheric detail and steadily elaborated suspense are better than most Hitchcock. Book-of-the-Month Clubbers, who get Escape for October, will not willingly lay it down...
Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rodin Rathbone (son), English reservists; Brian Aherne, Gary Grant, Charles Laughton, James Stephenson, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Donald Crisp, Richard Greene, John Loder, Directors Robert Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, able-bodied Britons all, and Raymond Massey, Canadian, prepared in Hollywood for a call to British arms. In Paris, Erich von Stroheim, cinemactor-director, who had early training in the old Austrian military, volunteered for the French Army, intended to join the American Volunteer Corps now being formed in Paris, if his offer were rejected...