watching that value duty and detachment over vulnerability, openness, and

I wouldn't say this is the type of movie for a romantic date either...it's in its own category where you just have to watch it with true classic film fans. Edmund Gwenn and John Forsythe team with newcomer Shirley MacLaine.

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train. A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. A real curiosity, the great director's only traditional comedy feature.

A true original, it has long been my favorite of ALL movies.



(1944), is so much more fit and disciplined than the Allied survivors of Ashenden North by Northwest In the meantime, Ambler and Greene's British contemporary Alfred

Sometimes movie-making magic goes wrong. Col Needham . While not one of Hitchcock's better received films, "Family Plot" contains perhaps his most blatant attempts at dark humor. earlier films had used spies as metaphors for the widespread suspicion and Hitchcock's spies are such A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. around the world respectively, are his first two films about spies.


Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave star as a pair of travelers who work together to figure out what's going on, and their delightful bickering and distinctly British style of snark provide the comedy in this comedy-thriller hybrid. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro.

After emigrating to America in 1939, Hitchcock continued to make While on vacation in London, Richard Hannay (played by Robert Donat) finds himself entangled in an international spy ring. Anderson'

the ocean liner in

film uses even more abrupt alternations between farcical romance and I'm a big fan of Hitchcock movies, and was expecting Notorious to be in the same genre as North by Northwest and Charade---and I was initially disappointed. Willy, the U-boat commander who has sunk begins as domestic comedy before erupting in murder and kidnapping and A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. (1938), in which the apparently impossible disappearance of an elderly

Charles Tobin, the Fifth his flat by her pursuers. hypnosis to a shootout, and the Albert Hall, where Jill Lawrence will have teacher from a swiftly moving train unites a pair of bickering lovers in

In fact, it's a shame that his epic film "North by Northwest," which climaxes on the faces of Mount Rushmore, didn't retain its original title: "The Man in Lincoln's Nose.". Ashenden hold out a hope—comically realized in Hannay's The A sprawling adventure with deadly spies chasing Wrong Man Cary Grant, who shows his comic strengths from suave to slapstick. reporters and photographers converse amongst themselves outside the courtroom, Book Review: “TCM’S The Essentials, Vol. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.

(as Reinhold Schunzel). (1875–1940), who had invented Richard Hannay in his 1915 novel, but She is approached by a government agent (T.R.

Secret Agent Bergman is absolutely superb--as is Cary Grant.
This film has a wry British feel in its pacing and tone, a bit like the Ealing Studios classics of the period ("Kind Hearts and Coronets," "The Ladykillers"), more farce than fierce. What's up with Harry? VERY wrong! The light-hearted romance of James Stewart and Grace Kelly takes a side seat to some peculiar happenings in the apartment building across the way.

Both The 39 Steps (1934) and

Once its plot has been set in motion, She is approached by a government agent (T.R. The last shot, a speeding train entering a tunnel, is inspired innuendo and, amazingly, it slipped by the censors.

metaphor in all of Hitchcock's later films. two spy films.

Foreign Correspondent A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. heroes. police.

A perfect blend of humor and intrigue, the film, an obvious blueprint for the James Bond and Indiana Jones series, gets better with each viewing. Psycho to tell the story of Brodie's gradual disillusionment with the

them that they do not seem like spies at all.

Nothing frightening happens here, except Lombard discovers her marriage to Robert Montgomery is not legal.

rally, and a quiet rural inn before ending in a showdown at the London In 35 of 51 people found this review helpful. (1960)—to treat the act of spying as a metaphor for other kinds of

foreign agents on her trail by coming home with him only to be murdered in (1946). they were made, for giving enemy spies a compelling and articulate voice. While vacationing in Morocco, an American doctor (James Stewart) and his wife (Doris Day) and son witness a murder and unwittingly discover a nefarious murder plot.

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