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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: "Strangers on a Train" on TCM tonight...
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solojones
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Young and Innocent (1937)
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A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the police, however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer. Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to prove his innocence.
I can't seem to find an actual poster for this one...
I haven't seen it, but my, does it sound like it has all the prototypical Hitchcock elements- the identity confusion, the average person caught up in crime, the innocent clearing his name, and of course the sex.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
3/11 8:49pm
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing: Hitchcock's "The Paradine Case"
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You can't find a poster because it was known by another title in the States, viz:
Very similar to "The 39 Steps", and has one very famous, bravura sequence: the principals sit in a dance hall/cafe, despondent because they can't find the real murderer. All they know about him is that his eye twitches. Long tracking shot through the restaurant to the band, in blackface. The shot closes in on one of the band, his eye fills the frame...and twitches.
Starred the little girl from the first "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and based on a novel written by Josephine Tey.
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solojones
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3/14 1:00am
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RE: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock: Now Discussing: Hitchcock's "Young and Innocent"
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Oooooooh, that's why  And that's why it didn't sound familiar to me. Yeah I've heard of it by The Girl was Young. Haven't seen it, though.
I wish I had my Hitch poster book with me here  Maybe I'll bring it back.
Well next will be The Lady Vanishes. I will be sure to watch it soon since I have it but haven't seen it yet.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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For those of you that have the Turner Classic Movies Channel, the first version of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934) is beginning right now.  Starring Leslie Banks, and Peter Lorre is in it too!
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solojones
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I'm going to watch our next film, The Lady Vanishes, tomorrow... so I'll update then 
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Zaz
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3/26 9:00pm
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I've recorded it, so I can take a close look at it.
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solojones
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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
From my book (which I just found!): On a transcontinental train journey through Central Europe, Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave (in his film debut) strive to fathom the inexplicable disappearance of an elderly governess, Dame Mae Witty. She is in fact a British agent trying to return to England with vital information encoded in the melody of a Balkan folk song. However her whereabouts are of no concern whatsoever to a couple of die-hard cricket enthusiasts anxious to return home in time for a big match. Despite its shoestring budget (a 90-feet-long set sufficed) and implausible plot, it is one of Hitchcock's most accomplished works.
For this, his biggest British money-maker, Hitchcock received the Best Director Award from the New York film critics.
I have this film but haven't seen it yet, got it in a set. I really need to watch it as it's highly praised... has anyone here seen it? I might watch it this weekend...
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JohnWesleyDowney
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THE LADY VANISHES
I'm guessing since it was his biggest British moneymaker and won an award...it was this success that attracted David O. Selznick's attention and brought Hitchcock to Hollywood, USA.
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Zaz
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4/10 11:41pm
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It's a very good Hitchcock, the best of his Brit films (along with "The 39 Steps"). Very good cast (esp. Dame Mae Whitty as the Lady), and ye olde Paris Exhibition plot, used to great advantage.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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I can't ever recall seeing it, though I have seen an awful lot of Hitchcock. I'll put it on my list.
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The Lady Vanishes - one of my favourites. I actually saw the 1979 version (Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd) first, and enjoyed it, before seeing the original version. The original is slower paced, but once you get into it, it's much better.
Lockwood has never been better looking than in this film, and she has great chemistry with Michael Redgrave, who manages to be both likeable and convincingly irritating. A major part of the fun comes from the characters of Charters and Caldicott, two very English gentlemen obsessed with cricket and quite oblivious to everything else; their beautifully played double-act was so successful that they went on to reprise their roles in two more films.
This film has a charm and wit that few of today's films can match.
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Zaz
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Those characters were written by Launder and Gilliat, who wrote this movie and became a very successful writing/directing team on their own. I've seen "I See A Dark Stranger" on TCM--it's one of theirs and I enjoyed it.
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Zaz
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I recorded this on the last go-round on TCM...haven't watched it yet, though I have seen it before, you always see something new in a Hitchcock film.
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solojones
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Well color me surprised- we're finally to films people have seen Although I have this and some of the older films as well. Now that the semester is ending this week, I'll actually have time to watch them. Yay!
So I'll get to The Lady Vanishes hopefully soon and come back to that... in the meantime, next film.
Jamaica Inn (1939)
From my book:
The final pre-war film in Hitch's British period is a costume melodrama about a band of smugglers operating out of a remote Cornish Inn. Hitchcock was by now already bound for Hollywood, having signed a contract with David O. Selznick.
From IMDB:
In Cornwall, around 1800, a young woman discovers that she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
I haven't seen it and it's one of the ones I don't own... I swear I actually have seen many of Hitch's movies, even though it doesn't seem like it
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soitscometothis
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I know I have seen it, but it was a long time ago. The fact that I don't remember anything about it suggests it is not one of my favourite Hitchcocks.
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