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Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...room, Harrison runs home in a panic, burns his bloodstained suit, lies to the police and spends most of the film being badgered by a prosecutor. Harrison's wife, played appealingly by Lilli Palmer, has two grisly scenes with the actual murderer (Anthony Dawson), a beady-eyed psychopath. But Directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck are so entranced with brooding, shadowy photography that most of the film appears to have been shot at the bottom of a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Died. Ronald True, 59, British playboy-killer, whose reprieve from the gallows in 1922 was a public and Parliament "scandal" that almost unseated David Lloyd George's coalition government; of a coronary thrombosis; in Broadmoor, England. Wealthy Psychopath True strangled and bludgeoned a prostitute to death, but was finally declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. There, under the rule that patients may furnish their cells as they please, he lived for 28 years with Persian rugs, oak bookshelves, his own valet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Dark City (Paramount) is a snail-paced thriller about three tin horn gamblers pursued by an avenging psychopath. It also introduces to the screen a sullen, Bogart-style newcomer from television, Charlton Heston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 6, 1950 | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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