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Monkey Business, an old Howard Hawks comedy about a scientist who invents a youth potion, moves into the Welles on Sunday. This delightful bit of oldfashioned comedy stars Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and a youngish Marilyn Monroe. It's being shown with Lifeboat, an Alfred Hitchcock suspense story that's not really up to Hitchcock's standard of excellence. Both movies are inordinately superior to the stuff that comes out of Hollywood nowadays. The double-bill goes...
Taking time out from preparing his next thriller, Director Alfred Hitchcock, 74, attended a gala in his honor given by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Accompanied by his wife of 48 years, Alma Reville, who was one of his first scriptwriters, the master sat in a box while 2,800 admirers, who had paid up to $250 each, enjoyed three hours of celluloid suspense. Clips from many of Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco...
...Hitchcock's Psycho, 8 p.m., and Hitchcock's Saboteur, 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, April...
...Hitchcock's Sabotage, and 8:30 p.m. and Young and Innocent at 10, Friday and Saturday, March...
Portrait: The Man from Independence. Robert Vaughn plays the young Harry Truman, putting his life on the line to fight corruption in Missouri. Some trivia: early in his career, Vaughn played an amusing character in a half-hour Hitchcock mystery. His name is A. Dunster Lowell (we all know what the A stands for), better known as the Boston Terrier, criminologist. Relying on the sophisticated gadgetry concocted by his ex-Harvard physics prof (an absentminded old codger), Lowell solves a homicide before the murderer can say U.N.C.L.E. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...