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THERE'S AN OLD cinematic recipe for directors of suspense films: Mix quirky but endearing characters. Add love story and dash of intrigue. Garnish with slam-bang conclusion in odd place, i.e., merry-go-round, theater, Mount Rush-more. Alfred Hitchock, the master of such concoctions, entranced audiences with well-developed characters and more than the usual quota of suspense. He involved audiences in his mysteries, by sharing the guilt of the crimes: they knew where the gun was hidden, who was the double...
Strangers on a Train features Robert Walker with a look in his eye and a voice tone that will wind its way into the core of your memory. Hitchock's film, written by Raymond Chandler ("The Big Sleep," "Farewell, My Lovely," "The Long Goodbye"), is one of his best, with a sense of feverish fascinating demented activity instead of mere raw suspense. In a minor apocalypse a merry-go-round goes berserk near the end of the movie...
FOGG ART MUSEUM. A valuable potpourri of sculpture, drawings that paintings reflecting the history of art. Mon-Fri. 9-5. Sun, 2-5. Recent sculpture by Andrea, Grossman. Hanson, Hitchock. Jimenez. Gallo, Groom and others thru...
Another group of seniors plan to feed Ex-lax to 500 pigeons and point them at the commencement crowd. "We got the idea from [Alfred] Hitchock's The Birds," said one senior, who asked that his name be withheld...
Norma Farber is quite good as Mrs. Hitchock, the tavernkeeper. The bar-maid and soldiers' whore, Anne is played by Dorcas Gill with little success, thereby keeping several bawdy scenes from being particularly bawdy. Her voice is too hard and flat and her movements stiff...