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“The Hitch-Hiker” is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two fishing buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico. The movie was written by Robert L. Joseph, Lupino, and her husband Collier Young, based on a story by “Out of the Past” screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring, who was blacklisted at …
A young and beautiful woman, Larita Filton, is married to an alcoholic and is cheating him with a young artist. Her young lover can´t take the feelings and the immoral attitude of his beloved and commits suicide. Then the marriage of the Filtons is divorced. Larita flees to France where she continues her immoral life …
The film was originally to be released under the same title as the novel “Enter Sir John” but this was changed to the simpler “Murder!” during shooting. A number of changes were made from the book including the alteration of the names of the two principal characters. The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier …
“Champagne” is a silent comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on an original story by English writer and critic Walter C. Mycroft. The film is about a young woman forced to get a job after her father tells her he has lost all his money. Heiress Betty (Betty Balfour) draws the ire of her …
Downhill (released in the U.S. as “When Boys Leave Home”) is a 1927 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the play Down Hill. It is Hitchcock’s fifth film as director. At an expensive English boarding school for boys, Roddy Berwick (Ivor Novello) is School Captain and star rugby player. He and his …
Juno and the Paycock (1930) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O’Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. The film was based on a successful play by Sean O’Casey. Barry Fitzgerald appears as an orator in the first scene of the film, but has no other role. In the slums …
A widowed farmer wants to marry again and meets, after intensive consultations with his housekeeping woman, with some candidates. None of these girls will appear as the right one and the girls show only little interest in him. Gradually, the farmer realizes that his housekeeper could possibly be the right one for him. The Farmer’s …
“Jamaica Inn” is a 1939 film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s 1936 novel of the same name, the first of three of du Maurier’s works that Hitchcock adapted (the others were her novel “Rebecca” and short story “The Birds”). The film is a period piece set in Cornwall in 1819; the …
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“Sabotage!, also released as “The Woman Alone”, is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on Joseph Conrad’s novel “The Secret Agent”. It should not be confused with Hitchcock’s film “Secret Agent” released the same year, or his 1942 film “Saboteur”. Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), the owner of a cinema, …
“The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog” is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926 and released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. The film, based on a story by Marie Belloc Lowndes and a play Who Is He? co-written by Belloc Lowndes, …
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