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Cause for Alarm! (MGM) rates its exclamation point as the year's first thriller with an honest quota of thrills. It pulls off the old Hitchcock trick of giving commonplace people, events and settings a sinister meaning, and it develops its simple, one-track idea with frightening logic...
...Second Woman (Harry Popkin; United Artists) improves on the old Hollywood custom of modeling a movie after a hit. The picture apes not one model but at least three. Its title trades on The Third Man, while most of its twists come straight out of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and Spellbound...
Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder have put their bright stamp on some of Britain's deftest moviemaking, first as co-scripters (Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Carol Reed's Night Train), then as a writing-producing-directing team (The Adventuress, The Notorious Gentleman, Green for Danger). Last week the team improved U.S. moviegoing prospects with two new films...
State Secret (London Films; Columbia) blends chills and chuckles in a melodrama that recalls vintage Hitchcock. Up to its chin in understated intrigue almost as soon as its opening titles have faded, the film keeps its suspense and credibility high right up to a neat, satisfying solution in the closing moments...
Died. Rex Ingram*(real name: Rex Hitchcock), 58, Irish-born director of such famed silent movies as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (which made Rudolph Valentino a star) and The Prisoner of Zenda (which made Ramon Novarro a star); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood...