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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confess (Warner) is an Alfred Hitchcock whodunit with an intriguing premise: a Canadian priest (Montgomery Clift) is accused of murder, but cannot reveal the identity of the real killer because his lips are sealed by the confessional. The picture develops its theme in straightforward fashion with few surprises and plot twists. Since the audience knows from the beginning who the killer is, his undoing comes about in a rather lame climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Carl A. Wagner '53, chairman of the H.L.U.'s film series, discovered the theft Tuesday following the showing of Alfred Hitchcock's mystery, "The 39 Steps." He found the total number of ticket stubs--more than 1,000 selling at 60 cents apiece--were in excess of the net income of $534. Wagner estimates income should have been approximately...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: Detectives Investigate $250 Theft from Liberal Union | 12/18/1952 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, headed by W. Harold Hitchcock, Law School '01, requested the drastic change from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court which sets the rules for the exam. The changes, if accepted, would not take affect until after the forthcoming December exams have been given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Board Asks 8 Bar Subjects Be Eliminated | 11/26/1952 | See Source »

...Alfred Hitchcock. 4. John Huston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Almost all of the action in this story of John Law vs. the Syndicate takes place aboard a train. Yet by adroit shooting of new angles, the cameramen arranged a visual effect that never bores and never repeats. The work is reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's best...

Author: By Lawrence D. Savadove, | Title: The Narrow Margin | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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