http://www.filmannex.com/blog-posts/alfredhitchcock<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/23614/the-secret-agent"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/movie_imgs/p_23614_184_220.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Secret Agent</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 1:26:00</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/23614/the-secret-agent">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-secret-agent/23614/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-secret-agent/23614/22 12 2010 12:12:36 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/19468/the-lady-vanishes"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/movie_imgs/p_19468_184_220.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Lady Vanishes</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 1:37:00</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Lady Vanishes (1938) is a thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. It stars Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas and Dame May Whitty, and features Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford, Mary Clare, Googie Withers, Catherine Lacey and Sally Stewart. The Lady Vanishes was one of Hitchock's last films to be made in the U.K. – only 1939's Jamaica Inn came before he moved to Hollywood and began making films there for David O. Selznick, starting with Rebecca, released in 1940. It was the great success of The Lady Vanishes, after a slump of three films that were not hits, that made it possible for Hitchcock to negotiate a very good deal to work in the States. A remake, also entitled The Lady Vanishes, was made in 1979. In Bandrika, a fictional country in an "uncivilized" region of immediately pre-World War II Central Europe, a motley group of travelers eager to return to England is delayed by an avalanche that has blocked the railway tracks. Among the train's passengers are Gilbert (Michael Redgrave), a young musicologist who has been studying the folk songs of the region, Iris (Margaret Lockwood), a young woman of independent means who has spent a holiday with some friends, but is now returning home to get married, and Miss Froy (May Whitty), an elderly lady who has worked some years abroad as a governess. When the train resumes its journey, Iris and Miss Froy become acquainted, while the remaining passengers in the compartment appear not to understand a word of English. Iris lapses into unconsciousness, the result of an earlier encounter with a falling flowerpot meant for Miss Froy. When Iris reawakens, the governess has vanished, and she is shocked to learn that the other passengers claim Miss Froy never existed. The other English travelers deny ever seeing her, for their own reasons. Fellow passenger Doctor Egon Hartz (Paul Lukas) convinces everyone that she must be hallucinating due to her accident. Undaunted, Iris starts to investigate, joined only by a skeptical Gilbert, with whom she eventually falls in love. They discover that Miss Froy is being held prisoner in a sealed-off compartment supposedly occupied by a seriously ill patient being transported to an operation. They manage to free her, but the train is diverted to a side track, where a shootout ensues. Miss Froy intimates to Gilbert and Iris that she is in fact a British spy assigned to deliver some vital information (the famous Hitchcock MacGuffin) to the Foreign Office in London; after entrusting her message, encoded in a folk song, to Gilbert, she flees under cover of the shootout. After managing to restart the train and escape, Gilbert and Iris return to London. At the Foreign Office, Gilbert, driven to joyful distraction when Iris accepts his marriage proposal, forgets the tune. Just as it appears the message has been lost, the coded folk song is heard in the background. Fortunately, Miss Froy has also made good her escape and is seen playing the song on a piano.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/19468/the-lady-vanishes">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-lady-vanishes/19468/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-lady-vanishes/19468/24 04 2010 00:48:55 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/16190/torn-curtain"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Torn Curtain</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 128 min, 126 min, 126 min</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Torn Curtain (1966) is a political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.The movie opens on a cruise ship en route to Copenhagen, where Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), an esteemed American physicist and rocket scientist, is to attend a scientific conference. Once there, he begins acting suspiciously, eventually flying to East Berlin, where he is welcomed by representatives of the East German government. His assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews), follows him there, believing he has defected to the other side. Sherman, however, is extremely uncomfortable with this move, realizing if the apparent defection is in fact real, given the circumstances of the Cold War of the period, she would likely never see her home or family again. They are constantly accompanied by Professor Karl Manfred (Günter Strack), who took part in arranging Armstrong's defection to the East.It soon becomes apparent to the viewer that Armstrong's defection is in fact a ruse to gain the confidence of the East German scientific establishment, in order to learn just how much their chief scientist Gustav Lindt (Ludwig Donath) and by extension, the Soviet Union knows about anti-missile systems. Armstrong has made preparations to return to the West which are threatened (along with the entire escape network, known as Pi) when he is followed to the home of his contact (on an isolated farm) by Hermann Gromek, a Stasi officer (Wolfgang Kieling) assigned to his case. Armstrong kills Gromek, who is then buried, along with Gromek's motorcycle, by the "farmer" (Mort Mills) and his wife (Carolyn Conwell), but the taxicab driver (Peter Lorre Jr.) who drove Armstrong to the farm reports his suspicions to the police (Volkspolizei).Armstrong visits the physics faculty of Karl Marx University in Leipzig, where his loyalty is suspected because of the missing Gromek. The faculty try to interrogate his fiancee /assistant about her knowledge of the American "Gamma Five" anti-missile program, but she refuses to cooperate and runs from the room. At this point Armstrong secretly confides to her his actual motives, and asks her to go along with the ruse. Later at a social gathering, Armstrong tries (unsuccessfully at first) to prod Lindt for information, offering hints that the American efforts have had some success due to Armstrong's work. While he is discussing the anti-missile question with professor Lindt in Lindt's office, he successfully goads him into revealing his anti-missile equations in a fit of pique over what Lindt believes are Armstrong's mathematical mistakes. Lindt hears however, over the university's loudspeaker system, that Armstrong and his fiancee are being sought for questioning, and realizes finally that he has given up his secrets while learning nothing in return. Armstrong must make a harrowing escape, along with Sherman, with the help of the university clinic physician Dr. Koska (Gisela Fischer).They travel to East Berlin, pursued by the Stasi, in a false bus operated by the Pi escape network, whose leader is Mr. Jacobi (David Opatoshu). Roadblocks, highway robbery by Soviet army deserters, and bunching with the real bus increase the suspense. The escape eventually leads to an alliance with the exiled Polish countess Kuchinska (Lila Kedrova), and a typical Hitchcock set piece, an escape through a crowded theatre after being spotted by the lead ballerina (Tamara Toumanova), who arranges to contact the Volkspolizei. (The ballerina is annoyed at the beginning of the movie when she flies to East Berlin, on the same airplane as Armstrong, and waves to the gathered press corps upon arrival, thinking they are there to greet her. Instead, they rudely tell her to stand aside as their attention is focused on Armstrong.) They then get loaded with the props, in which they have hidden themselves, belonging to a travelling Czech troupe which made its final appearance in East Berlin prior to a tour of Sweden. The troupe travels to Sweden on a freighter across the Baltic Sea. The ballerina makes a mistake in uncovering where Armstrong and Sherman are hiding on the ship, thus diverting the crew's attention; meanwhile, Armstrong and Sherman escape by jumping overboard and swimming to a Swedish dock.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/16190/torn-curtain">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/torn-curtain/16190/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/torn-curtain/16190/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/16121/to-catch-a-thief-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: To Catch a Thief (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 106 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />To Catch a Thief (1955) is a romantic thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams. The movie is set on the French Riviera, and was based on the 1952 novel of the same name by David Dodge. The screenplay was written by John Michael Hayes.John Robie (Cary Grant) is a notorious but retired jewel thief or "cat burglar," nicknamed "The Cat," who now tends to his vineyards in the South of France. A series of robberies that closely resemble his style leads the police to believe that the Cat is up to his old tricks again. They come to arrest him, and he adeptly gives them the slip.He immediately seeks refuge with his old gang from his days in the French Resistance, a group of ex-cons whose patriotic work led to grants of parole that depend on keeping their noses clean. Bertani, Foussard, and the others are all under a cloud while the Cat is at large, and they blame Robie. Still, when the police arrive at Bertani’s restaurant, Foussard’s daughter Danielle (Brigitte Auber) spirits her old flame to safety.Robie enlists the aid of an insurance man of Bertani's acquaintance, H. H. Hughson (John Williams), in order to prove his innocence. Robie's plan is to catch the new cat burglar in the act. To do this, he obtains a list of the most expensive jewels on the Riviera from the reluctant Hughson. The first names on the list are Jessie Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis) and her daughter Francie (Grace Kelly). Robie strikes up acquaintance with them—one met with delight by Jessie, a pretense of modesty with Francie, and claws-baring jealousy from Danielle.Francie is not afraid of a little fun. Although she sees through Robie’s cover as an American industrialist, the considerable charms of this thief are worth catching. She dangles before him her jewels, teases him with steamy tales of rooftop escapades, exposes herself as a feline of a special breed: an accomplice who might share his passion and be available to his sordid desires. Fireworks fill the night and can even be seen in the sky.That night, Jessie's jewels are stolen, and Francie suddenly feels that Robie has taken advantage of her. He narrowly evades the clutches of the police and goes back on the lam.He stakes out a house where he believes the new burglar will strike and is violently attacked. In the ensuing struggle he kills the attacker. It’s Foussard, Bertani's wine steward.The police chief is satisfied that Foussard was the jewel thief, but, as Robie points out to him in the presence of the abashed Hughson, this would have been impossible: Foussard had a prosthetic leg and couldn't possibly climb on rooftops.After Robie is ejected from Foussard’s funeral, Francie apologizes and confesses her love for him. They agree to attend a masquerade ball the coming weekend.At the ball, Francie is resplendent in a gold gown, Robie unrecognizable behind the mask of a Moor. The police hover nearby, ready to arrest Robie at the drop of a hat. When Jessie asks the Moor to go get her "heart pills," Robie’s voice tips off his identity to the authorities. Upon his return the police wait out Francie and the Moor as they dance the night away. Upstairs, the cat burglar strikes, cleaning out many a jewel box. Finally, Francie and the Moor go to her room, and the mask is removed: it’s Hughson, switched in to conceal Robie’s exit.On the rooftop Robie lurks. His patience is finally rewarded when he is joined by another figure in black. But just as his pursuit begins, the police throw a spotlight on him. Again he flees and shots ring out, but he manages to corner his foe with jewels in hand. Unmasked, his nemesis turns out not to be a man after all. Danielle is "The Cat," and she confesses that she’s been working for her father and Bertani.Robie speeds back to his vineyards, and Francie races after to convince him that he needs a woman around. He agrees but seems less than thrilled about including her mother.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/16121/to-catch-a-thief-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/to-catch-a-thief-film/16121/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/to-catch-a-thief-film/16121/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/15638/young-and-innocent"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/movie_imgs/p_15638_184_220.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Young and Innocent</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 80 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Young and Innocent (U.S. title: The Girl Was Young) is a 1937 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and John Longden. It is very loosely based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles (1936).Christine Clay (Pamela Carme), an actress who owes her career to her husband, is severely criticized by him for playing around with other men. He makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying with (or at least near) them at their country retreat somewhere on the English coast. One night, Christine smacks her husband in the face. He keeps calm except for his eyes, which twitch uncontrollably, then proceeds to strangle her with the belt from a trenchcoat he has stolen. For some reason, he is not suspected by the police.Robert Tisdall (Derrick De Marney) happens to be walking along the seaside cliffs when Christine's body washes ashore. A belt is found next to the body. He runs to get help or call the police and is seen doing so by two young female swimmers. He is arrested and becomes the main suspect. His motive seems to be a large sum left to him in her will. Saddled with a hopelessly inadequate barrister, Tisdall doubts if his innocence will ever be established. He makes his escape in the crowded courthouse corridor.Tisdall gets a lift from Erica Burgoyne (Nova Pilbeam), daughter of the local police Chief Constable, in her dilapidated Morris car. They are spotted together, so the police suspect she is his accomplice. Tisdall tries to prove his innocence by tracking down the stolen coat.During their flight, they briefly stop at the home of Erica's aunt, where her seven year old daughter Felicity is having a birthday party (playing, among other games, Blind Man's Buff). Finally, in a lodging house frequented by tramps, Tisdall finds the man he has been searching for: Old Will (Edward Rigby), a sociable china-mender who is wearing Tisdall's coat. He agrees to help them find the man who gave him the coat, and thus clear Tisdall. Unfortunately, the twitching eyes are all that Old Will can remember about the man.In a pocket of the coat, they find a box of matches from the Grand Hotel, a place Tisdall has never been to. They go there in hopes of finding the murderer. In a memorably long, continuous sequence, the camera moves forward through the hotel ballroom to finally focus on the drummer in a dance band performing in blackface. Recognizing Old Will in the audience, and seeing policemen nearby (unaware that they are there to arrest Tisdall), the man performs poorly due to fear and is berated by the musical conductor. Then he has a nervous breakdown, exacerbated by a drug he has been taking to try to control the twitching, and passes out. Immediately after being revived, he confesses his crime and laughs. In the end, Robert Tisdall and Erica Burgoyne are united, with Erica's father smiling benevolently.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/15638/young-and-innocent">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/young-and-innocent/15638/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/young-and-innocent/15638/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/15539/the-wrong-man"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Wrong Man</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 105 min</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Wrong Man is a 1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock which stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film is based on a true story of an innocent man charged for a crime he didn't commit, even though witnesses swear he's guilty. The story was based on the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson and the article "A Case of Identity" (Life Magazine, June 29, 1953) by Herbert Brean.For many years, it has remained one of Hitchcock's least famous films. However it has had a significant influence on many directors. The Wrong Man provoked the longest piece of criticism written by Jean-Luc Godard.The film examines the life of Manny Balestrero (Henry Fonda), who works as a musician in the Stork Club in New York. He and his wife have very little money. When his wife needs some dental work, Manny attempts to borrow on her policy at the insurance office. Unfortunately, he closely physically resembles an armed robber who held up the office twice before, so the police are called. Manny is arrested and charged with the crime. Manny is identified by several witnesses, and he nervously misspells a word in the same way as the word appeared on the robbery note. His defense attorney, Frank O'Connor, says it's a case of mistaken identity. Manny had a swollen jaw during the time of the first hold-up, which the teller never reported but which she would have seen had Manny been the robber. He had played cards throughout the day of the second hold-up, but his alibi defense takes a serious hit when it turns out that both his card partners that he could trace had died in the meantime. The stress of all this has a devastating effect on his wife, who slowly seeps down into depression, to the point where she is institutionalized.The trial begins but midway through, a juror makes a remark which prompts the judge to grant a mistrial. While awaiting re-trial, the real robber is arrested while trying to hold-up a grocery store. Manny is exonerated. He visits his wife at the sanatorium to tell her the good news but she remains in an apathic state. However, the film closes with an on-screen note that reveals she eventually recovers and the family move to Florida.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/15539/the-wrong-man">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-wrong-man/15539/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-wrong-man/15539/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/15093/waltzes-from-vienna"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Waltzes from Vienna</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 80 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Waltzes from Vienna is a 1934 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film was also called Strauss' Great Waltz. The film tells the story of the writing and performance of The Blue Danube. According to Hitchcock:Hitchcock told François Truffaut that this film was the lowest ebb of his career. He only agreed to make it because he had no other film projects that year, and wanted to stay working. He never again made a musical film.Waltzes from Vienna was also a popular Ruritanian style musical, which is sometimes still performed by amateur companies due to its large chorus.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/15093/waltzes-from-vienna">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/waltzes-from-vienna/15093/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/waltzes-from-vienna/15093/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14979/vertigo-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Vertigo (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 128 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. The film was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor and based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac. In the film, a retired police detective who suffers from acrophobia is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance and uncover the mystery of her peculiar behavior. The film received mixed reviews upon initial release, but has garnered much acclaim since then and is now frequently ranked among the greatest films ever made.Detective John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) discovers that he has acrophobia (the fear of heights) during a police chase across the rooftops of San Francisco. Scottie loses his footing and clings to a ledge to keep from falling. Scottie experiences vertigo as he stares at the ground several stories below him. A fellow police officer (Fred Graham) tries to help, but he loses his balance and plunges to ground.After the incident, Scottie decides to retire from police work, but an acquaintance named Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) hires Scottie to decipher the peculiar behavior of his wife, Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak). Scottie follows Madeleine as she visits the grave, the former home and the museum portrait of a dead woman named Carlotta Valdes. Scottie learns that Carlotta Valdes had a tragic life that ended in suicide and that she was Madeleine's great-grandmother. After following Madeliene to Fort Point, Scottie sees Madeleine jump into the San Francisco Bay. Scottie rescues her and brings her to his home to recover. Madeleine eventually confesses that she feels like she may be going insane and has to repress suicidal impulses. Scottie comforts and reassures her and the intimacy between them grows.When Madeleine recounts the details of a bad dream, Scottie identifies the setting as Mission San Juan Bautista and brings her there in an effort to ease her anxiety. At the mission, Madeleine suddenly runs into the church and up the staircase of the bell tower. Scottie chases after her, but his acrophobia prevents him from making it to the top of the staircase. Halted on the steps by vertigo and paralyzing fear, Scottie hears a scream and, through a window, sees Madeleine fall from the tower. The manner of her death was officially declared to be suicide and Gavin blamed it on possession by Carlotta Valdes.Scottie had fallen in love with Madeliene and is depressed after her death. As his emotional state improves, he begins to haunt the places that Madeleine had visited. On the street, he spots a young woman who bears a striking resemblance to Madeleine. Scottie follows her to her hotel room and pries for information about her identity. She tells him that her name is Judy Barton (Kim Novak) and she is just a simple girl from Kansas. She eventually agrees to join with Scottie for dinner, but when Scottie leaves her true identity is revealed. She was, in fact, the woman that he knew as "Madeleine," but she was not actually Gavin's wife. Gavin had bribed her to pose as his wife and pretend to be possessed by Carlotta Valdes. Gavin faked the suicide by hiding at the top of the bell tower and tossing over the body of his already-murdered wife. Gavin used Scottie as a witness to her apparent suicide by correctly assuming that his acrophobia would prevent him from following "Madeleine" to the top of the tower. But Judy had really fallen in love with Scottie, so she chooses to hide the truth and attempt to establish a genuine relationship with him.Scottie grows fond of Judy, but their relationship is hindered by his memory of "Madeleine." He gradually transforms Judy so that she bears an uncanny resemblance to "Madeleine." Scottie's suspicion is aroused when Judy wears a necklace that he remembered seeing in the portrait of Corlotta Valdes. Scottie brings Madeleine to Mission San Juan Bautista revealing to her upon arrival that he wants to reenact the event in which he failed to save Madeleine. Scottie forces Judy up the bell tower while he recounts the incident and presses her for the truth. Scottie realizes that he has conquered his acrophobia and his ascent, therefore, is not impeded by vertigo. On top of the bell tower, Judy admits to the deception, but pleads to Scottie that she loves him. The two embrace, but Judy, startled by an approaching shadow, steps backwards and falls from the tower.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14979/vertigo-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/vertigo-film/14979/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/vertigo-film/14979/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14836/under-capricorn"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Under Capricorn</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 117 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Under Capricorn (1949) is an Alfred Hitchcock film based on a novel by Helen Simpson, with screenplay written by James Bridie, and adaptation by Hume Cronyn. The movie was co-produced by Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein for their short-lived production company Transatlantic Pictures and released through Warner Bros. The film starred Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, and Margaret Leighton.The film was Hitchcock's second film in Technicolor and uses ten-minute takes similar to those in Hitchcock's film Rope (1948). It is believed that the audience thought Under Capricorn was going to be a thriller, which it was not -- it was a domestic love triangle with a few thriller elements thrown in -- which apparently led to its box office failure. However, the public reception of the film may not have been helped by the revelation in 1949 of Bergman's illicit relationship with, and subsequent pregnancy by, Italian film director Roberto Rossellini.In 1831 Australia, Charles Adare (Wilding) arrives with his uncle, the new governor (Cecil Parker). Charles hopes to make his fortune in Sydney. He is befriended by Samson Flusky (Cotten), a prosperous ex-convict. Sam's wife, Lady Henrietta (Bergman), was a friend of Charles's sister in Ireland. Sam hopes that Charles will cheer up his wife, who is an alcoholic. Meanwhile the housekeeper, Milly (Leighton), secretly loves Sam, and encourages Henrietta's drinking. Sam has been sent to an Australian prison after he confessed to a killing actually committed by Henrietta, who followed Sam and waited for his release...</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14836/under-capricorn">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/under-capricorn/14836/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/under-capricorn/14836/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14749/suspicion-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Suspicion (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 99 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Suspicion (1941) is a romantic psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine as a married couple. It also stars Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans and Heather Angel.It is based on Francis Iles' 1932 novel Before the Fact.Before the Fact is the story of Lina, a "born victim." She is raised in the country in the early decades of the 20th century and, at 28, she is still a virgin and in danger of becoming an old spinster. She finds country life with her parents rather boring, and only lives for strangers that might be passing through or that have been invited by someone living in or near their village. When the novel opens, such a stranger has just arrived: 27 year-old Johnnie Aysgarth, from an impoverished family who are, as she is told, "of rotten stock". General McLaidlaw, Lina's father, is opposed to the marriage, and everyone seems to know that all that Johnnie is after is Lina's money.In spite of these difficulties, Lina and Johnnie get married after only a short engagement. They go to Paris on their honeymoon, where they stay at the best hotels and dine at the best restaurants, and, on their return, move into an eight-bedroom house in London. Only six weeks later, Johnnie, who is jobless, admits to his wife that they have been living on borrowed money and that it has run out. Gradually, unwillingly, Lina takes charge of the couple's finances and suggests that Johnnie get a regular job. They leave the expensive house and move to the country in a part of Dorset where they do not know anybody. Reluctantly, Johnnie takes a job as the steward of a large estate of a Captain Melbeck.As time goes by, Lina gradually learns that Johnnie is a crook. Apart from being a compulsive liar, he turns out to be a thief, a forger, an embezzler, an adulterer, and eventually, a murderer.However, Lina's death will be Johnnie's first "real" murder. He goes to great lengths to conceive an undetectable murder. When Isobel Sedbusk, the author of detective stories, happens to spend the summer in their village, he associates with her and, on the pretext of discussing material for her new book, elicits a new method of murder from her: swallowing an alkali commonly used, but never suspected of being poisonous, and which leaves no trace in the human body for a post-mortem to find. At the very end of the novel, Lina, who really seems to have gone mad, catches the flu. She has been waiting for her husband to try to murder her for months now. When he brings her a drink, she swallows it deliberately, knowing that it is a poisonous cocktail. Johnny is going to get away with it ("People did die of influenza."), which is what Lina, so much in love with her husband, hopes will happen.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14749/suspicion-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/suspicion-film/14749/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/suspicion-film/14749/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14607/strangers-on-a-train-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Strangers on a Train (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 101 min (1:41)</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Strangers on a Train is a film released in 1951 by Warner Bros. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers (credited as Laura Elliott), and Patricia Hitchcock.The film was based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley. Detective novelist Raymond Chandler wrote an early draft of the screenplay, despite his having considered the story implausible.This movie is ranked number 109 on IMDB's "Top 250 Films of All-Time" and is number 32 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills.Amateur tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) wants to divorce his vulgar and unfaithful small-town wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to be able to marry the woman he loves, the elegant, beautiful, and rich Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a senator.Guy Haines' wife Miriam, however, is not at all interested in divorce: she is having plenty of affairs, has become pregnant by one of her numerous lovers, and is perfectly happy to carry on exploiting her husband indefinitely.In the opening scenes, Guy Haines chances to meet the charming, rich, clever, but psychopathic Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train. Bruno tells Guy his "amusing" idea about how to commit the perfect murder: two people who hardly know one another at all "exchange" murders; that way, neither one would have a motive, and each could arrange to have a perfect alibi for the time when the murder was committed. It would be, as Bruno describes his plan to Guy, "crisscross".Bruno goes on to explain that for example, he, Bruno, could kill Guy's wife Miriam, and in exchange, Guy could kill Bruno's unpleasantly authoritarian father, and then both of them would be free to do whatever they wanted. Guy thinks Bruno is joking and leaves, but Bruno imagines that they have in fact made a bargain with one another.In his hurry to get away from Bruno, Guy accidentally leaves his gold cigarette lighter behind, and Bruno takes it. Bruno knows that the lighter was an intimate gift to Guy from Anne, and he has seen that it has a tennis logo and "From A to G" engraved on it.Bruno gets tired of waiting for Guy to contact him in order to set up the appropriate timetable for the murders. Bruno unilaterally goes ahead with his half of the "plan", strangling Guy's wife Miriam on an island in a lake at an amusement park, while she is out on a date with two of her admirers. The audience sees the murder as it is reflected in Miriam's glasses, which have fallen to the ground when Bruno attacks her.Once the murder is discovered, suspicion immediately falls on Guy, because he had an obvious motive. It turns out that Guy is unable to provide a solid alibi for the time of the crime. Bruno starts making increasingly more intrusive appearances in Guy's life, in order to forcibly remind Guy that Guy is now obliged to kill Bruno's father, according to the bargain that was supposedly struck on the train when they first met.Finally the police close in on Guy as he chases after Bruno, at sunset in the lakeside amusement park. Bruno is about to "plant" Guy's cigarette case at the scene of the murder, so that the police will have convincing evidence that Guy was the murderer.The two men struggle on the carousel, which spins out of control and crashes. The police seize Guy, but an amusement park employee (who remembers Bruno's previous visit) points out that Bruno is in fact the murderer. Guy explains to the police what Bruno was about to do with his cigarette lighter.Bruno is mortally wounded in the crash, but even though he is dying, he lies to the police, insisting that Guy was the one who killed Miriam, and that Guy left the lighter on the island. The moment after Bruno dies however, his fingers open up, revealing the gold cigarette lighter with Guy's and Anne's initials on it.Guy and Anne are then seen reunited on a train home, and this time there is hope for their future together. A man asks Guy if he is Guy Haines (identical to the way Guy met Bruno), but Guy, fearing another mishap, leaves the compartment with Anne, leaving the man stunned.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14607/strangers-on-a-train-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/strangers-on-a-train-film/14607/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/strangers-on-a-train-film/14607/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14452/stage-fright-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Stage Fright (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 110 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Stage Fright (1950) is an Alfred Hitchcock crime film starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, and Richard Todd. Others in the cast include Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Patricia Hitchcock in her movie debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a humorous vignette.Produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook, Ranald MacDougall, and Alma Reville (the director's wife), with additional dialogue by James Bridie, based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson.Though Hitchcock had lived and worked in Hollywood since 1939, this mystery/thriller, which is mixed with humor, was filmed on location in London. The only members of the cast who are not British are the two top billed stars, Wyman and Dietrich.Featured is an original Cole Porter song, The Laziest Gal In Town performed by Dietrich in a sultry fashion. Costumes were designed by Christian Dior.Stage Fright garnered some adverse publicity upon its initial release due to the "lying flashback" which is seen at the beginning of the film. However, some film critics, including those of Cahiers du Cinema, see the flashback as simply being an illustration of one person's version of the events: the events as recounted by the character whose voice-over we hear, which was presumably Hitchcock's intention.The film has a few extra-long takes, reminiscent of those that Hitchcock used in Rope (1948) and Under Capricorn (1949).</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14452/stage-fright-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/stage-fright-film/14452/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/stage-fright-film/14452/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14118/the-skin-game-1931-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Skin Game (1931 film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 77 mins</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Skin Game is a 1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a play by John Galsworthy. The story revolves around two rival families, the Hillcrests and the Hornblowers, and the disastrous results of the feud between them.Produced by British International Pictures (BIP), this film is considered by some critics to mark a low point in Hitchcock's career.After being thought to be in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005. A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007.The plot tells the story of a feud between two affluent families, the long-established (upper class) Hillcrests, played by C.V. France, Helen Haye, and Jill Esmond, and the nouveau riche (formerly working class) Hornblowers, played by Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, and Frank Lawton. Two underlying themes in the story are class warfare and the urbanization of the countryside.The Hillcrests are upset by the actions of Mr. Hornblower, whom they consider to be ostentatious and crass, in buying up land, evicting tenant farmers, and surrounding the area with factories. The Hillcrests make every effort they can to preserve the last large piece of open land that adjoins their beautiful rural estate.After being tricked out of the land in an auction, the Hillcrests learn a dark secret about Mr. Hornblower's beautiful daughter-in-law Chloe (played by Phyllis Konstam). It turns out that she had previously earned a living by playing the professional "other woman" in pre-arranged divorce cases. (This implies that she may in fact have been a prostitute.)When Mr. Hornblower learns of this secret, and that the Hillcrests have discovered it and are prepared to use it against his family, Mr. Hornblower agrees to sell the rural land to the Hillcrests for less than half the auction price, on the condition that the family swears to keep the information secret. However, the news starts to leak out, precipitating a crisis in the family.Chloe Hornblower goes to the Hillcrests, begging them to help keep the secret from her husband, who is aware that something is going on. She hides behind a curtain when her husband unexpectedly storms into the Hillcrest home, demanding to know the secret.Keeping his promise to Chloe, Mr. Hillcrest makes up a story, but the young Mr. Hornblower is not convinced, and declares that he intends to end his marriage, even though Chloe is pregnant with his child.Upon hearing this, Chloe runs to the lily pond outside the Hillcrest home and drowns herself. When her body is discovered, the elder Hornblower concedes that Hillcrest has destroyed him and his family completely. Hillcrest attempts to apologize.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/14118/the-skin-game-1931-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-skin-game-1931-film/14118/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-skin-game-1931-film/14118/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13890/shadow-of-a-doubt"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Shadow of a Doubt</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 108 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. It stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn.Shadow of a Doubt was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story, Gordon McDonell. In 1991, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In his book Bambi vs. Godzilla, David Mamet calls it Hitchcock's finest film. Hitchcock sometimes told interviewers that the film was his personal favorite among his American films.A bored young woman, a teen living in Santa Rosa, California, Charlotte "Charlie" Newton (Wright), is frustrated because nothing seems to be happening in her life and that of her family. Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle (for whom she was named), Charlie Oakley (Cotten), her mother's brother, is arriving for a visit.Two men show up pretending to be photographers and journalists working on a national survey of the average American family. One of them speaks to Charlie privately, identifying himself as Detective Jack Graham (Macdonald Carey) and telling her that her uncle is one of two men who are suspected of being a serial killer known as the "Merry Widow Murderer". This murderer has a modus operandi of seducing, murdering and robbing wealthy widows.Young Charlie at first refuses to even consider that her uncle could be a murderer, but she cannot help noticing him acting strangely on several occasions. Particularly chilling is a family dinner conversation during which Uncle Charlie reveals his hatred of rich widows, comparing them to fat animals deserving of slaughter.Young Charlie's growing suspicion soon becomes apparent to her uncle. He confronts her and admits that he is indeed the man the police are after. He begs her for help; she reluctantly agrees not to say anything, as long as he leaves soon, to avoid a horrible scandal in the town that would destroy her family, especially her mother, who idolizes her younger brother.Then news breaks that the second suspect was killed fleeing from the police, and is assumed to have been the guilty one. The detective Graham leaves after telling Young Charlie that he loves her and would like to marry her someday. Uncle Charlie is satisfied at first, until he remembers that Young Charlie fully knows his secret. Soon, the young woman has a couple of near fatal "accidents," falling down some very steep stairs, and being trapped in a closed garage with a car spewing exhaust fumes.Uncle Charlie soon announces that he is leaving by train for San Francisco. As he departs, he forces young Charlie to stay on board, planning to kill her by pushing her off as soon as the train gets up to speed. Instead, in the ensuing struggle between them, he falls into the path of an oncoming train. At his funeral Uncle Charlie is highly honored by the townspeople of Santa Rosa, who know nothing of his crimes. Jack has come back to comfort Charlie; she tells him she had withheld from him information about her uncle which would have confirmed him as the murderer, but Jack already knows and accepts that, realizing her difficult situation. They become a couple, and resolve to keep Uncle Charlie's crimes a secret.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13890/shadow-of-a-doubt">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/shadow-of-a-doubt/13890/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/shadow-of-a-doubt/13890/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13562/saboteur-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Saboteur (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 108 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Saboteur is a 1942 Universal film directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a screenplay written by Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, and Dorothy Parker. The movie stars Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, and Norman Lloyd. It should not be confused with a Hitchcock film of a similar title, Sabotage (also known as The Woman Alone, 1936).Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane (Cummings) is wrongly accused of starting a fire at a Glendale, California airplane plant during World War II, an act of fifth columnist sabotage that killed his best friend. Kane becomes a fugitive when he decides to run from the authorities to find the real saboteur. Kane believes that the real saboteur is a man named Fry (Lloyd), whom he had also seen working at the plant just before the fire, but the images of Kane in the newspapers lead others to believe in Kane's culpability, and when authorities check lists of the plant's employees, no one named "Fry" is found on them.Having learned of Fry's name and last address, Kane heads there, a ranch in the Central Valley. The ranch's owner is apparently a well-respected local citizen but it is later revealed that he is secretly in league with the saboteurs. Turned in by the rancher, Kane is arrested by the police but later manages to escape. He takes refuge with a kind blind man whose visiting niece is a billboard model, Patricia "Pat" Martin (Priscilla Lane). When her uncle asks her to take Kane to the local blacksmith shop so that he can have his handcuffs removed, she instead attempts to take him to the local police, believing that it is the right thing to do. When Kane catches on, he overpowers and kidnaps Martin, protesting his innocence. He eventually uses the fan-belt pulley of her car's generator to cut off his handcuffs, but the resultant damage eventually causes the car to overheat.Late at night, they see a truck of a traveling circus and decide to hitch a ride. When stopped by the authorities, freak show performers decide to deceive the police, hiding Kane in a bunk and disguising Martin as a snake charmer. Martin begins to fall in love with Kane. Kane acts on a lead he had discovered at the ranch and asks for them to be dropped off at the destination he knows only as "Soda City".When they arrive, they find an apparently-abandoned mining camp which is in reality a staging area for the saboteurs' plan to blow up Boulder Dam. After Kane is discovered by the saboteurs, he convinces them that the newspaper and radio accounts are true and that he is, in fact, a saboteur in league with them. Arguing among themselves and finding their plans to destroy Boulder Dam foiled, they resolve to head for a new job in New York City. Overheard from the next room, Kane's performance is so convincing that Martin begins to believe again that he is guilty and flees, hoping to find her way to New York in time to stop them. With Kane, the group of saboteurs drives eastward toward the city, planning to sabotage the launching of a new U.S. Navy ship at the Brooklyn shipyard. The bomb will be set in the launching track and will be detonated wirelessly from the back of a truck belonging to their phony newsreel outfit.The saboteurs' main New York ally is the socially-prominent Mrs. Sutton, who is hosting a charity ball at her home the night before the planned act. Meeting with the saboteurs in a private study, Kane finds a captured Martin, who had gone to the police with what she knew but was betrayed by a corrupt chief privy to the conspiracy. The captive Martin reacts angrily to Kane, and as he desperately attempts to signal that she should escape, they are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of the ranch owner, who recognizes Kane and denounces him as a foe to the conspiracy. The saboteurs, realizing they were fooled, lock Kane in the cellar and Martin in an office at Rockefeller Center. The following morning, Martin drops a rescue note from her window, which leads to notification of the FBI. With the FBI's aid, Martin is rescued, while Kane triggers a fire alarm back at the mansion and frees himself.Kane arrives at the shipyard to warn the Navy just before the planned launching, but his story is not believed by the guards at the gates. Kane sneaks in anyway, discovers the phony newsreel truck, and finds Fry at the controls inside. Kane throws himself onto Fry and wrestles to stop him from hitting the detonator. Kane delays Fry long enough so that when Fry manages to activate the detonator, the ship is safely out of the dock. Throwing off Kane and holding him at gunpoint, Fry is driven to Rockefeller Center, only to find the police waiting. Fry's flight from the officers takes him eventually to the top of the Statue of Liberty, with Martin following all the way at Kane's behest. In the viewing room, she stalls Fry until the police arrive, and Kane, who has been brought along to identify him, dashes away from his police escort long enough to come after Fry, who has now fled to the statue's torch.Kane and Fry face off in the climactic scene. Kane draws a gun and tries to corner Fry, but instead of stopping, Fry tumbles over the low railing on the torch and clings to the Statue's hand. While the police are still trying to find where Kane went, Kane decides to risk his own life by clambering down to save Fry. Kane grabs the wrist of Fry's suitcoat, but the sleeve tears and Fry plummets to his death.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13562/saboteur-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/saboteur-film/13562/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/saboteur-film/13562/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13561/sabotage-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/movie_imgs/p_13561_184_220.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Sabotage (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 76 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Sabotage, also released as The Woman Alone, is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was based on Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent. It should not be confused with a Hitchcock film of a similar title, Saboteur (1942), starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings.Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), the owner of a cinema, is part of a gang of saboteurs from an unnamed European country who are planning a series of attacks in London. Their exact motives are not made clear. Scotland Yard suspects Verloc's involvement in the plot and assigns Detective Sergeant Ted Spencer (John Loder) to investigate Verloc, initially under cover. Spencer conducts the investigation posing as a greengrocer's helper, selling fruit and vegetables in a shop right next to the cinema.Verloc's young and beautiful wife (Sylvia Sidney) believes that her husband is a good man because he has been kind to her and her little brother, Stevie (Desmond Tester), who lives with them. However, gradually she comes to suspect that her husband may be one of the people behind the terrorist attacks. The final straw comes when her little brother is killed, along with many other people, when a bus explodes. The boy had thought that he was simply delivering a film canister, but he was unknowingly carrying a time bomb for Verloc, to be detonated in the London Underground station under Piccadilly Circus. The boy had become distracted along the way, which had delayed his delivery, and thus the bomb exploded en route to its final target.Verloc confesses to his wife, but then blames Scotland Yard and Spencer for Stevie's death, saying that they were the ones who prevented Verloc from successfully carrying out the bomb delivery himself. Soon afterwards, as Verloc and his wife are preparing to eat dinner, she stabs him to death with a knife. When Spencer arrives to arrest Verloc he realizes what has happened, but insists that she shouldn't admit that she killed her husband. Nevertheless, she starts to confess her crime to a policeman. Then an explosion and fire at the cinema intervene, destroying all the evidence of her crime and effectively preventing the policeman from remembering whether it was before or after the explosion that she told him, "My husband is dead!"At the end we see Mrs Verloc and Ted Spencer walk away together.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13561/sabotage-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/sabotage-film/13561/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/sabotage-film/13561/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13486/rope-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Rope (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 81 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Rope (1948) is a film written by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart, John Dall and Farley Granger. It is the first of Hitchcock's Technicolor films, and is notable for taking place in real time and being edited so as to appear as a single continuous shot through the use of long takes.The film was based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton, which was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by two University of Chicago students named Leopold and Loeb who simply wanted to show that they could commit a murder and get away with it. However, they were both arrested and received long prison terms.On a late afternoon, two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (John Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Farley Granger) murder a former classmate, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment.After hiding the body in a large antique wooden chest, Brandon and Phillip host a dinner party at the apartment which has a beautiful panoramic view of the city skyline (in what appears to be Manhattan). The guests, unaware of what has happened, include the victim’s father (Cedric Hardwicke) and aunt (Constance Collier) (his mother is not able to attend), as well as his fiancee, Janet Walker (Joan Chandler) and her former lover Kenneth Lawrence (Douglas Dick), who was once a close friend of David's. In a subtle move, Brandon uses the chest containing the body as a buffet for the food, just before their maid, Mrs. Wilson (Edith Evanson) arrives to help with the party. "Now the fun begins," Brandon says when the first of the guests arrives.Brandon's and Phillip's idea for the murder was inspired years earlier by conversations with their erstwhile prep-school housemaster, publisher Rupert Cadell (James Stewart). While at school, Rupert had discussed with them, in an apparently approving way, the intellectual concepts of the Übermensch and the art of murder, a means of showing one's superiority over others. He too is among the guests at the party since Brandon in particular feels that he would very likely approve of their so-called work of art.Brandon subtly drops hints throughout the party about David's absence, beginning a discussion on the art of murder. He manages to appear calm and in control, although when he first speaks to Rupert, he is nervously excited, stammering. Phillip on the other hand is visibly upset and morose. He does not conceal it well and starts to drink too much. When David's aunt, Mrs. Atwater, who fancies herself as a fortune-teller, tells him that his hands will bring him fame, she is talking about his skill at the piano, but he appears to think that it will be a different kind of fame.Much of the conversation, however, focuses on David and his strange absence, which worries the guests. A suspicious Rupert quizzes a fidgety Phillip about this and about some of the inconsistencies that have been raised in conversation. For example, Phillip had vehemently denied ever strangling a chicken at the Shaws’ farm, but Rupert has personally seen Phillip strangle several.Phillip later complains to Brandon about having had a "rotten evening", not because of the murder of David but over Rupert's questioning.Emotions run high. David's father and fiancee are disturbed, wondering why he has neither arrived nor phoned. Brandon even goes so far as to play matchmaker between Janet and Kenneth, who rather resent this and increases the tension.Mr. Kentley decides to leave when his wife calls, overwrought because she has not heard a word from David herself. He takes with him some books Brandon has given him, tied together with the very rope Brandon and Phillip used to strangle his son; Brandon's icing on the cake.About to leave, Rupert is handed another man’s hat by mistake. In it he sees the initials "D.K." (as in David Kentley). Now certain something is wrong, Rupert returns to the apartment a short while after everyone else has departed, pretending that he has absentmindedly left his cigarette case behind. He "plants" the case, asks for a drink and then stays to theorize about the disappearance of David, encouraged by Brandon, who seems eager to have Rupert discover the crime. A tipsy Phillip can't stand it any more, throwing a glass and saying: "Cat and mouse, cat and mouse. But which is the cat and which is the mouse?"Rupert lifts the lid of the chest and finds the body inside. His two former students have indeed committed murder. He is horrified, but also deeply ashamed since it was his own rhetoric which led them to carry out an actual killing as an intellectual exercise. Rupert seizes Brandon’s gun and fires several shots into the night in order to attract the police.As the sky outside the apartment darkens into night, the sirens of police cars can be heard heading their way.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13486/rope-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/rope-film/13486/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/rope-film/13486/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13237/rebecca-1940-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Rebecca (1940 film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 130 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Rebecca (1940) is a psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O. Selznick. The film's screenplay was an adaptation by Joan Harrison and Robert E. Sherwood from Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of the same name, and was produced by Selznick. It stars Laurence Olivier as Maxim de Winter, Joan Fontaine as his second wife, and Judith Anderson as his late wife's housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers.The film is a gothic tale about the lingering memory of the title character, which still affects Maxim, his new bride, and Mrs. Danvers long after her death. The film won two Academy Awards, including Best Picture out of a total 11 nominations. Olivier, Fontaine and Anderson were all Oscar nominated for their respective roles.The story begins with images of a ruined country manor, and a woman telling us that she can never return to Manderley — as it no longer exists, except as a ruin.Joan Fontaine plays a young woman (who is never named) who works as a companion to the wealthy Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates). In Monte Carlo, she meets the aristocratic widower Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter (Laurence Olivier) and they fall in love. Within weeks, they decide to get married.Maxim takes his new bride to Manderley, his country house in Cornwall, England. However, the servants are reluctant to accept the new Mrs. de Winter as the new lady of the house. They are loyal to Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, who died under mysterious circumstances.Particularly unpleasant is the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson). She is still obsessed with Rebecca's beauty and sophistication, and preserves her former bedroom as a shrine, even to the point of seeming to worship Rebecca's handmade underwear and expensive négligée. In the documentary film The Celluloid Closet, it was suggested that Mrs. Danvers' obsession with Rebecca hinted at homosexual desires. Rebecca's "cousin" Jack (George Sanders) (actually, and as well, one of her lovers) occasionally appears at the house when Maxim is away, and seems to know Mrs. Danvers well, calling her by the name "Danny", which was Rebecca's pet name for her.The new Mrs. de Winter is intimidated by Mrs. Danvers and by the responsibilities of being the new chatelaine of Manderley. As a result, she begins to doubt her relationship with her husband. The continuous presence of Rebecca in the house starts to haunt her.Trying to act more like the perfect wife, Mrs. de Winter suggests to Maxim that they host a costume party. Maxim reluctantly consents. Mrs. de Winter excitedly plans her own costume in secret, but Mrs. Danvers suggests that she copy Caroline de Winter, an ancestor, whose portrait hangs in the upstairs hallway. On the night of the party, Mrs. de Winter reveals her costume to Maxim, who is both surprised and angry at her, shouting at her to change her costume. Mrs. de Winter rushes upstairs, sees Mrs. Danvers go into Rebecca's room and follows her. There she confronts Mrs. Danvers about her knowing that Rebecca had worn the same costume the previous year. Mrs. Danvers retaliates by saying that she will never take Rebecca's place and almost convinces Mrs. de Winter to commit suicide. But Mrs. de Winter snaps out of her trance when a sudden commotion starts downstairs — a ship has been spotted foundering off the coast.Mrs. de Winter (after changing her outfit) rushes downstairs to the front lawn, where she hears news that a sunken boat has been found off the coast - with Rebecca's body in it. She spots a distant glow from the cottage on the shore and enters to find Maxim. Maxim admits to his new wife that he had misidentified another body as Rebecca's in order to prevent discovery of the truth. From almost the beginning of their marriage, he and Rebecca had hated one another. They had agreed to "keep up appearances" of a real marriage for the sake of the family honor. Rebecca, however, began to get "careless" after a while, for example disappearing for days on end and then returning as though nothing were wrong. Maxim was also aware of Rebecca's ongoing affair with Jack. One night, suspecting to find Rebecca and Jack together, Maxim came down to the cottage. Rebecca had been expecting Jack, but he had never come, she told Maxim that she was pregnant with Jack's child. During the argument, she fell, hit her head, and died. Maxim took the body out in a boat which he then scuttled.In the ensuing police investigation, officials question whether the damage to the boat indicates that Rebecca may have committed suicide. Jack quickly provides evidence, a letter from Rebecca, that strongly suggests that she was not suicidal (he even tries to blackmail Maxim with it). Maxim comes under suspicion of murder; and the second Mrs. de Winter must face the prospect of losing her husband. The investigation focuses on Rebecca's secret visits to a London doctor (Leo G. Carroll); visits which the audience presumes were due to her illicit pregnancies. However, an interview with the doctor reveals that Rebecca was, in fact, suffering from cancer, and would have died very shortly. She was not pregnant: she had lied to Maxim, apparently trying to goad him into killing her — as an (indirect) means of suicide.As Maxim returns home to Manderley, he finds his wife safe and sound but the house on fire, set alight by the deranged Mrs. Danvers, who dies in the flames.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13237/rebecca-1940-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/rebecca-1940-film/13237/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/rebecca-1940-film/13237/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13236/rear-window"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Rear Window</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 112 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Rear Window (1954) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder", and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond Burr. The film is considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.Rear Window, which received four Academy Award nominations, was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1997. It was ranked #48 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition).Photographer L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is recuperating from a broken leg and confined to a wheelchair in his small Greenwich Village apartment. He passes the time by spying on his neighbors through his apartment's rear window, including a dancer who exercises in her underwear, a lonely woman who lives by herself, a songwriter working at his piano, and several married couples, including a salesman, Lars Thorwald, (Raymond Burr) with a bedridden wife.Every day Jeff is visited by Stella (Thelma Ritter), a cranky but friendly home care nurse and Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly), his much-younger socialite girlfriend. He talks to both of them about his neighbors. After the salesman makes repeated late-night trips carrying a large case, Jeff notices that the bedridden wife is now gone, and sees the salesman cleaning a large knife and handsaw. Later, the salesman ties a large packing crate with heavy rope, and has moving men haul it away. By now, Jeff, Stella, and Lisa have concluded the missing wife has been murdered by the salesman.An old Army Air Corps buddy of Jeff named Tom Doyle (Wendell Corey) is now a police detective. He looks into the situation and finds that Mrs. Thorwald is in the country, has sent a postcard to her husband, and the packing crate they had seen was full of her clothes. Chastised, they all admit to feeling a bit ghoulish at being disappointed to find out there was not a murder. Jeff and Lisa settle down for an evening alone, but a scream soon pierces the courtyard when a dog belonging to a neighbor couple is found dead. The neighbors all rush to their windows to see what has happened, except for Thorwald, who sits unmoving in his dark apartment, the tip of his cigarette glowing.Convinced that Thorwald is guilty after all, Lisa slips a note -- written by Jeff -- under his door asking "What have you done with her?" while Jeff watches his reaction. As a pretext to get him away from his apartment, Jeff calls Thorwald and arranges a meeting at a bar. He thinks Thorwald killed the dog to keep it from digging up something buried in the courtyard flower patch. When Thorwald leaves, Lisa and Stella grab a shovel and start digging, but find nothing.Lisa climbs the fire escape to Thorwald's apartment and squeezes in an open window. Inside she finds Mrs. Thorwald's purse, which she would never have left behind on a trip. She holds the purse up for Jeff to see, turning it upside-down to show that she has not yet found the wedding ring. Jeff watches helplessly as Thorwald comes back up the stairs, trapping Lisa inside the apartment. Calling the police as Thorwald goes in, he and Stella watch as Lisa is discovered by Thorwald. They see her try to talk her way out, but Thorwald grabs her and begins to assault her. They watch as he turns out the lights, and listen as Lisa screams for help. Just then, the police arrive, saving Lisa. With the police present, Jeff sees Lisa's hands behind her back, pointing to Mrs. Thorwald's ring, which Lisa now has on her finger. Thorwald sees this as well, and, realizing that she is signaling to someone across the courtyard, turns to look directly at Jeff.Jeff calls Doyle, now convinced that Thorwald is guilty of something, and Stella takes all the cash they have for bail and heads for the police station, leaving Jeff alone. He sees that Thorwald's apartment lights are off, and hears the door to his building slam shut, then slow footsteps begin climbing the stairs. Looking for a method of defense, Jeff can find only the flash for his camera and a box of flashbulbs. The footsteps stop outside his door, which slowly opens. Thorwald stands in the dark, asking "Who are you? What do you want from me?" Jeff does not answer, but as Thorwald comes for him he sets off the flash, blinding Thorwald for a moment. Thorwald fumbles his way to Jeff's wheelchair, grabs him, and pushes him towards the open window. Hanging onto the ledge, yelling for help, Jeff sees Lisa, the detective, and the police all rush over. Thorwald is pulled back, but it is too late, Jeff slips and falls just as the police run up beneath him. Luckily they break his fall, and Lisa sweeps him up in her arms. Thorwald confesses to the murder of his wife, and the police take him away..A few days later the heat has lifted, and Jeff rests peacefully in his wheelchair – now with two broken legs from the fall. Lisa reclines happily beside him, appearing to read a book on Himalayan travel but turning, after Jeff is asleep, to a new issue of Harpers Bazaar, a fashion magazine.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/13236/rear-window">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/rear-window/13236/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/rear-window/13236/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/12647/the-paradine-case"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Paradine Case</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 125 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Paradine Case (1947) is a courtroom drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick. The screenplay was written by Selznick and an uncredited Ben Hecht, from an adaptation by Alma Reville and James Bridie of the novel by Robert Smythe Hichens. The film stars Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore and Louis Jourdan. It tells of an English barrister who falls in love with a woman who is accused of murder, and how it affects his relationship with his wife.Maddalena Paradine (Alida Valli) is a very beautiful and enigmatic young foreign woman who is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband, a retired military man. It is not clear at first whether perhaps she is a grateful and devoted wife who has been falsely accused, or whether she is in fact a calculating and ruthless femme fatale.Mrs. Paradine hires Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck), a brilliant and successful barrister, to defend her in court. Although Keane has been happily married for 11 years, he instantly becomes deeply infatuated with this exotic, mysterious, and fascinating client. Keane's kind-hearted wife Gay (Ann Todd) sees his infatuation, and although her husband offers to get off the case, she presses him to continue. She knows that a guilty verdict, followed by Paradine's hanging, will mean that she will lose her husband emotionally forever. The only way that she can regain her husband's love and devotion is if he is able to obtain a "not guilty" verdict for Mrs. Paradine.Meanwhile Keane himself starts to focus his legal efforts on Colonel Paradine's mysterious servant, Andre Latour (Louis Jourdan). Consciously or unconsciously, Keane sees Latour as a suitable scapegoat on whom he can pin the crime of murder, but this strategy backfires. After Keane has pressured Latour in court, hoping to trigger an angry outburst, word comes that Latour has killed himself. Anna Paradine is coldly furious that Keane has destroyed Latour, who was in fact her lover. On the witness stand she tells Keane she hates him, and that he has killed the only person she loved, the person she had killed her husband in order to be with.Keane is overwhelmed, physically, intellectually and emotionally. Attempting to sum up, he improvises a brief and faltering speech, admitting how poorly he has handled the case, but cannot continue speaking and has to leave the court. He goes home to his wife feeling that his career is in ruins, but she gives him hope for the future.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/12647/the-paradine-case">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-paradine-case/12647/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-paradine-case/12647/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/12302/notorious-1946-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Notorious (1946 film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 101 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Notorious (1946) is a thriller directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, is recruited by government agent T. R. Devlin (Cary Grant) to infiltrate a group of Germans who have relocated to Brazil after World War II.While awaiting the details of her assignment in Rio de Janeiro, Alicia falls in love with Devlin. His feelings for her are complicated by his knowledge of her wild past. When Devlin is ordered to convince her to seduce Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains), one of her father's friends and a member of the group, Devlin tries to convince his superiors that Alicia is not fit for the job. But upon seeing Alicia again, he puts up a stoic front, prioritizing duty over love. Alicia concludes that he does not love her, and she eventually weds Alex.Alicia discovers the plot, but in the process leaves a clue that her husband traces back to her. Now Alex has a problem: he must silence Alicia, but cannot expose her without being suspected by his fellow Nazis. Alex discusses the situation with his mother (Leopoldine Konstantin), who suggests that Alicia "die slowly", gradually by poisoning. The poison is initially mixed into Alicia's coffee, and she quickly falls ill. Devlin becomes alarmed when she fails to appear at their next rendezvous. After driving to Sebastian's house, he sneaks into Alicia's quarters, where she tells him that Alex and his mother are poisoning her. After confessing his love for her, Devlin carries her out of the mansion in full view of the conspirators while rendering Alex unsure whether to help or resist. Finally, Alex privately begs to go with Alicia and Devlin, but they abandon him to the unanswerable inquires of the Nazis who have previously dispatched a co-conspirator for a far lesser indiscretion.Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance, a signature occurrence in all of his American films, takes place at the big party in Sebastian's mansion. Hitchcock is seen knocking back a glass of champagne and then quickly departing, about 60 minutes into the film.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/12302/notorious-1946-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/notorious-1946-film/12302/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/notorious-1946-film/12302/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/12288/north-by-northwest"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: North by Northwest</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 136 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />North by Northwest (1959) is an American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau. The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, who wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". Author Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated dialogue, calling the film "certainly Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thriller, if not his best".[2] The film is one of several Hitchcock movies with a film score by Bernard Herrmann and features a memorable opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass. This film is generally cited as the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits.[3]The movie's world premiere took place in the San Sebastian International Film Festival. North by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across America by agents of a mysterious organization who want to stop his interference in their plans to smuggle out some microfilm (a classic MacGuffin).A Madison Avenue advertising executive, Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), is mistaken for a government agent named George Kaplan. He is kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein) and taken to the house of Lester Townsend. There he is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is really Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). When Thornhill repeatedly denies he is Kaplan, Vandamm becomes annoyed and orders his right-hand man, Leonard (Martin Landau), to get rid of him.Valerian and Licht try to stage a fatal car accident, but Thornhill, after a chase on a perilous road, gets himself apprehended and charged with drunk driving. He is unable to get the police, the judge, or his mother (Jessie Royce Landis) to believe what happened to him, especially when a woman posing as Townsend's wife informs them that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat.Thornhill and his mother go to Kaplan’s hotel room. Narrowly avoiding recapture by Valerian and Licht, Thornhill catches a taxi to the General Assembly building of the United Nations, where Townsend is due to deliver a speech. When he meets Townsend, Thornhill is surprised to find that he is not the man who interrogated him. When Thornhill questions him, Townsend states that his wife is dead. At that moment, Valerian throws a knife that strikes Townsend in the back. He falls forward, dead, into Thornhill's arms. Unthinkingly, Thornhill removes the knife, making it appear that he is the killer. A passing photographer captures the scene, forcing him to flee.From Kaplan's itinerary, Thornhill knows he has a reservation at a Chicago hotel the next day. Thornhill goes to Grand Central Terminal and sneaks onto the 20th Century Limited train. On board, he meets Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), who helps Thornhill evade policemen searching the train for him by hiding him twice: once in the overhead, fold-up bunk in her compartment. She asks about his personalized matchbooks with the initials ROT; he says the O stands for nothing. Unbeknownst to Thornhill, Eve notifies Vandamm and Leonard, who are in another compartment.Arriving at Chicago's LaSalle Street Station, Thornhill borrows the uniform of one of the porters and carries Eve's luggage through the crowd. Although the police are alerted to his disguise, the sheer number of porters saves Thornhill. Meanwhile, Eve (who is Vandamm's lover) lies to Thornhill, telling him she has arranged a meeting with Kaplan.In an iconic sequence, Thornhill travels by bus to meet Kaplan at an isolated crossroads in the middle of a perfectly flat, open Indiana countryside. The only other person in sight is a man who is dropped off and waits at the opposite bus stop. Before boarding the next bus, he notes that a plane is "dusting crops where there ain't no crops." Without warning, the plane flies towards Thornhill and starts shooting at him. He is chased through a cornfield and dusted with pesticide. Finally, Thornhill steps in front of an oncoming gasoline tank truck, which stops barely in time. The plane crashes into it and explodes. When passing drivers stop to see what is going on, Thornhill steals a pickup truck.Thornhill goes to Kaplan's hotel, but is surprised to learn that Kaplan had already checked out when Eve claimed to have spoken to him. Thornhill spots Eve in the lobby. He goes to her room, but she tells him to stay away from her. She allows him to stay and use the shower as she leaves. Using a pencil to reveal the indentations of a message on a notepad, Thornhill learns her destination: an art auction.There, he comes face to face once more with Vandamm. Vandamm purchases a pre-Columbian Tarascan statue. Thornhill tries to leave, only to find all exits covered by Vandamm's men. Thinking quickly, he starts placing nonsensical bids, so the police have to be called to remove him. Thornhill identifies himself as a wanted fugitive, but the officers are ordered to take him to Midway Airport (where a gate for Northwest Airlines is seen, playing on the film's title).Thornhill meets the Professor (Leo G. Carroll), a spymaster who is trying to stop Vandamm from smuggling microfilmed secrets out of the country. The Professor reveals that George Kaplan is a fiction created to distract Vandamm from the real government agent—Eve, whose life is now in danger because of Thornhill. In order to protect her, Thornhill agrees to help the Professor and his agency fool Vandamm.At the cafeteria at the base of Mount Rushmore, Thornhill (now pretending to be George Kaplan) meets with Eve and Vandamm. He offers to allow Vandamm to leave the country unhindered in exchange for Eve. The deal is refused. In a staged struggle, Eve shoots Thornhill and flees. Vandamm and Leonard hastily depart, as the apparently critically wounded Thornhill is taken away by stretcher in a station wagon, accompanied by the Professor. When the makeshift ambulance reaches a secluded spot, Thornhill emerges unharmed to speak with Eve privately. He becomes highly agitated when he learns that she is using the "shooting" to get Vandamm to take her with him, so that she can gather further intelligence. Thornhill is knocked out. He wakes up in a locked hospital room, but escapes through a window.Thornhill arrives at Vandamm’s mountainside home, scales the outside of the building, and slips inside undetected. He learns that the microfilm is in the Tarascan statue, then watches as Leonard convinces Vandamm that Eve is a government agent and the shooting was faked by firing the gun Eve used (filled with blanks) at him. Vandamm decides to throw Eve out of the plane once they are airborne. Thornhill manages to warn her by writing a note inside one of his distinctive matchbooks and dropping it where she will see it.Just before she boards the plane, Eve escapes with the statue and joins Thornhill. Leonard and Valerian chase them across Mount Rushmore; in a struggle, Thornhill throws Valerian off Mount Rushmore and he falls to his death. When Eve slips and clings desperately to the mountainside, Thornhill grabs one of her hands, while precariously steadying himself with his other hand. Leonard arrives and begins grinding his shoe on Thornhill's hand. They are saved by the timely arrival of the Professor and a police marksman, who kills Leonard. Vandamm is taken into custody.The film cuts smoothly from Thornhill pulling Eve to safety on Mount Rushmore to him pulling her into an overhead train bunk, where they are spending their honeymoon. The final shot shows their train speeding into a tunnel.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/12288/north-by-northwest">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/north-by-northwest/12288/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/north-by-northwest/12288/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11942/murder"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Murder!</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 104 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Murder! (1930) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. The film stars Herbert Marshall and Norah Baring. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Juno and the Paycock and Blackmail.After being thought in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005. A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007.An actress is found standing over the body of a murdered colleague from her troupe, and has no memory of what happened. The ladies were known to have been enemies. At her trial the jury decides that she is either guilty or has schizophrenia and should be hanged lest she strike again. One juror, Sir John Menier, is not convinced and, using skills he has learned from the theatre, investigates the circumstances of the case.Sir John discovers who the real murderer is, and tries to lure a confession from him. The action comes to a thrilling climax at the circus.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11942/murder">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/murder/11942/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/murder/11942/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11490/mary-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Mary (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: German</p> <p>Movie Length: 78 min</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Mary (1931) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the German version of Hitchcock's Murder! (1930), shot simultaneously on the same sets with German actors. The film is based on the play Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, and stars Alfred Abel and Olga Tschechowa.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11490/mary-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/mary-film/11490/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/mary-film/11490/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11474/marnie-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Marnie (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 130 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Marnie is a 1964 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the novel of the same name by Winston Graham. The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. The original film score was composed by Bernard Herrmann.Marnie Edgar (Hedren) is a troubled young woman who has an unnatural fear and mistrust of men, thunderstorms, and the color red. She is also a compulsive thief. She uses her charms on Sidney Strutt (Martin Gabel) to get a job without references. Then late one night, she steals the contents of the company safe and disappears.Mark Rutland (Connery), a widower who owns a large printing company, is a good customer of Strutt's. He learns about the theft from the victim, and remembers the woman. So when Marnie applies for a job at his company, he is intrigued. He is robbed too, but unlike Strutt, Mark manages to track Marnie down. Instead of handing her over to the police, he blackmails her into marrying him.On their honeymoon, he finds out about her frigidity. At first, he respects her wishes, but her undisguised hostility to him incites him to rape her. The next morning, she tries to commit suicide, but Mark finds her in time.He attempts to discover the reasons behind Marnie's behavior. In the end, Marnie and Mark learn that her mother, Bernice (Louise Latham), had been a prostitute. When Marnie was six years old, one of her mother's clients (a sailor played by Bruce Dern) had tried to calm her after she became frightened by a storm. The mother thought he was trying to molest her daughter and began attacking him. Seeing her mother struggling with the man, Marnie struck him with a fireplace poker, killing him. The bloodshed led to her fear of the color red. Once the origin of her fears is revealed, Marnie decides she wants to try to make her marriage work.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11474/marnie-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/marnie-film/11474/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/marnie-film/11474/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11442/the-manxman"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Manxman</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 129 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Manxman (1929) is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on a romantic novel by Hall Caine, the director began work on the film just two weeks after the birth of his daughter, Patricia Hitchcock. This was the last silent film Hitchcock directed before he made the transition to sound film with his next film Blackmail.After being thought in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005. A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007.The film tells the story of two childhood friends, a poor fisherman, Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson), and a lawyer, Philip Christian (Malcolm Keen). Pete is in love with Kate (Anny Ondra), but when her father, Old Caesar (Randie Ayrton), refuses to consent to their marriage, Pete sets off for Africa to make his fortune, asking Philip to take care of Kate until he returns.In his absence, Kate and Philip fall in love. When news reaches them that Pete was killed, they begin planning their lives together, as Philip prepares to assume the position of Deemster, the island's chief magistrate. The news is false however, and Pete returns to the island a wealthy man. Old Caesar agrees to let Kate marry him, and neither she nor Philip have it in them to break Pete's heart. As the wedding party proceeds in an old mill, Old Caesar sternly warns the newlyweds to remember how serious the vows of marriage are.Kate is still in love with Philip. Shortly after a daughter is born, she decides to leave Pete, leaving him both the child and a note saying that she loves another man. However, Philip is about to become the Deemster and is unwilling to give up his career for her. Frustrated, she returns to Pete to take the baby, telling him that he is not the father, but he refuses to believe her or hand the child over. Distraught, Kate leaves and attempts to commit suicide by throwing herself off the quay, a crime on the Isle of Man.Kate is brought to trial on the first day that Philip serves as Deemster. He is reluctant to sentence her, and when Pete appears in the courtroom to plead for his wife, he agrees to hand her over to him. Kate refuses to go, and Old Caesar, who is watching, gets up and condemns Philip for being the "other man". Philip admits this and leaves the court.In the final scene, Philip and Kate prepare to leave the Isle of Man and come to Pete's house to pick up the baby. In a shot reminiscent of the theater, Kate picks up the child, while Philip and Pete stand at opposite ends of the room. She brings the child over to Pete to say one last goodbye, and he breaks down, having lost everything. Philip and Kate leave the cottage to the jeers of the villagers, who have been watching the scene.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11442/the-manxman">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-manxman/11442/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-manxman/11442/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11410/the-man-who-knew-too-much-1956-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 120 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is a remake in widescreen VistaVision and Technicolor of Hitchcock's 1934 film of the same name.In the book-length interview, Hitchcock/Truffaut (1967), Hitchcock told fellow filmmaker François Truffaut that he considered his 1956 remake to be superior, saying that the 1934 version was the work of a talented amateur, the 1956 version the work of a professional.The film won an Academy Award for Best Song for "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)," sung by Doris Day at several points in the action. It was also entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. An American family, Dr. Ben McKenna (James Stewart), his wife Jo (Doris Day) and their son Hank (Christopher Olsen) are on vacation, traveling in Morocco. They befriend a fellow traveler, the mysterious Louis Bernard (Daniel Gelin), on a bus. Later that same day, the couple meets another vacationing couple, the Draytons (Bernard Miles and Brenda De Banzie), at dinner in a local restaurant.The next day, outdoors in a busy Marrakesh marketplace, the McKennas are shocked to witness the assassination of a man who turns out to be Bernard in disguise. Before dying, he whispers into Ben McKenna's ear a terrible secret: that someone's life is in danger. The Draytons, not nearly as innocent as they seem, kidnap the boy Hank in order to be able to pressure Dr. McKenna into not telling the local police what he has learned.After following a number of leads, McKenna tracks the kidnappers to a church, where Drayton is posing as the minister. Ben learns that the Draytons are involved in a plot to assassinate a European head of state during a symphony orchestra concert at the Royal Albert Hall.Ben and Jo separately track the killer to the concert, where he is to shoot the dignitary at the exact moment of time when the orchestra's music features a loud and climactic cymbal crash. At the moment of truth, Jo screams. The sudden unexpected sound causes the assassin to misfire. Ben chases the assassin, who falls to his death from a balcony.The couple then follow the kidnappers to the ambassador's residence in London, where they are welcomed as heroes for saving the head of state's life. Mrs. Drayton, unable to be complicit in the plan to kill Hank, helps the boy find his father. Mr. Drayton tries to escape with the two as hostages, but is struck by Ben and falls down the stairs to his death when the gun he is holding fires accidentally. It is never explained what ultimately happens to Mrs. Drayton, but she is there watching when her husband is killed, and does not show any emotion when it happens.Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In The Man Who Knew Too Much he can be seen (25 minutes into the film) watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace, with his back to the camera, just before the spy is killed.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11410/the-man-who-knew-too-much-1956-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-man-who-knew-too-much-1956-film/11410/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-man-who-knew-too-much-1956-film/11410/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11083/the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 75 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (often just called The Lodger) is a 1927 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock It concerns the hunt for a "Jack the Ripper" type serial killer in London. The wrong man is accused of the crime and is forced to try to prove his innocence.Hitchcock once told François Truffaut that he considered this his first film, although it was the third film directed by Hitchcock.Hitchcock's assistant director Alma Reville, would become his wife a few months before the film was released.The film begins with police detectives interviewing a hysterical woman who was an eyewitness to the seventh murder committed by the Avenger. "Tall he was—and his face all wrapped up". The news spreads like wildfire through London.That night, Daisy Bunting, a blonde model, is at a fashion parade where she and the other showgirls heard the news of the murder. The blonde girls are horrified; covering their hair with dark wigs or hats while Daisy laughs at their fears. She returns home to her parents, Mr and Mrs Bunting, and her policeman sweetheart, Joe, who have been reading the details of the latest Avenger crime in the day's paper.Later that same night a new tenant arrives at the house of Mr and Mrs Bunting and inquires about the room they are renting. Mrs Bunting takes him to the room on the top floor of her house which is decorated with portraits of beautiful young women, all blondes. The man is rather reclusive and secretive, which puzzles Mrs Bunting. However she does not complain after he willingly pays her a month's rent in advance, and asks only for bread, butter, and a glass of milk and to be left in peace.Mrs Bunting leaves her new tenant and tells her husband the good news, showing him the small fortune she has been paid. Upon returning with the lodger's meal, she is surprised to find him turning all the portraits of the women around to face the wall, and he politely requests that they be removed. Mrs Bunting enlists Daisy to remove the portraits, and upon first sight an attraction begins to form between Daisy and the lodger. The women bid him goodnight and return downstairs, where they hear the lodger's heavy footsteps as he paces the floor.Over the course of the following week, the relationship between Daisy and the reclusive lodger gradually heats up, and Joe, newly assigned to the Avenger case, begins to resent the closeness developing between them. The following Tuesday, Mrs Bunting is awoken late in the night by the lodger leaving the house. She is suspicious and searches his room in his absence, finding a cupboard that has been locked tight. In the morning, another blond is found dead just around the corner from their house.Joe and his fellow policemen, after weighing the latest clues, observe that the murders are moving towards the Bunting's neighborhood. Meanwhile, Mrs Bunting voices her fears to her husband that the lodger is the Avenger, and the two become fearful for Daisy's safety, agreeing to prevent her from spending further time alone with the stranger. Daisy remains oblivious to any danger, and the next Tuesday night, she and the lodger manages to sneak away on a late night date. Joe tracks them down, and confronting them, is told by Daisy that it's over between them. The heartbroken Joe is left to ponder his fortunes while the lodger and Daisy head home. As Joe sits, he begins to piece the events of the previous weeks together and convinces himself that the lodger is indeed the murdering Avenger.With a warrant in hand and two fellow officers in tow, Joe returns to search the lodger's room. In the locked cupboard they find a leather bag containing a gun, a map plotting the location of the Avenger's murders, newspapers and a photograph of an attractive blonde woman. Taking the lodger's emotional reaction as an admission of guilt, Joe surmises this woman was the Avenger's first victim. The lodger is arrested despite Daisy's protests, but manages to escape and runs off into the night. Daisy follows and finds him, still handcuffed, coatless and shivering in the fog. He explains that the photograph found in his room was his sister, a beautiful debutante who was murdered by the Avenger at a dance she had attended with her brother. He then vowed to his mother on her deathbed he would not rest until he had brought the killer to justice.Daisy brings the lodger to a nearby pub to give him brandy to warm him, hiding his handcuffs with a cloak. The locals, suspicious of the pair, pursue them, quickly gathering numbers until they are a veritable lynch mob. The lodger is surrounded and beaten, while Daisy and Joe, who has just heard the news from headquarters that the real Avenger has been caught, try in vain to defend him. When all looks lost, a paperboy interrupts with the news that the real Avenger has been arrested. The mob releases the lodger who falls into Daisy's waiting arms.Alfred Hitchcock cameo: Alfred Hitchcock appears sitting at a desk in the newsroom with his back to the camera (3 minutes into the film). This is Alfred Hitchcock's first recognizable film cameo and was to become a standard practice for the remainder of his films.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/11083/the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog/11083/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog/11083/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/10994/lifeboat-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Lifeboat (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 96 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II war film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a lifeboat. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Original Motion Picture Story and Best Black and White Cinematography.The film holds the world record for smallest set ever used on a film. It has never been beaten. (The closest any other film has come was the 1948 novelty film Bill and Coo, which featured an all-bird cast and was filmed on a miniature village built onto a 15×30-foot {4.57×9.14-m} tabletop, which was inside a larger studio.)Several Americans and Britons are stuck in a lifeboat after their ship and a U-boat sink each other in combat. Willi (Walter Slezak), a German survivor, is allowed aboard (after some debate), but is later revealed to be the U-boat captain.Kovac (John Hodiak) takes charge, rationing the little food and water they have; but Willi gradually takes control away from him. One morning, while the others are sleeping, the injured German-American Gus Smith (William Bendix) catches Willi drinking from a hidden water supply. Too weak to wake anybody up, Gus is pushed overboard to drown. However, when they notice that the Nazi is sweating, the other passengers realize that he must have been hoarding water, so they beat him up and throw him out of the boat.Later, the survivors are spotted by the German supply ship Willi had been steering them to; but, before it can pick them up, it is sunk by an Allied warship. A frightened young German seaman boards the lifeboat, brandishing a gun. After he is disarmed, one of the survivors asks, "What do you do with people like that?"</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/10994/lifeboat-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/lifeboat-film/10994/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/lifeboat-film/10994/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/10299/jamaica-inn-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Jamaica Inn (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 98 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Jamaica Inn is a 1939 film made by Alfred Hitchcock adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 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 1820; the real Jamaica Inn still exists, and is a pub on the edge of Bodmin Moor. The score was written by Eric Fenby.Jamaica Inn starred Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. Critics disparaged the film and today it is considered one of Hitchcock's lesser films. However, the film still garnered a large profit (3.7 million dollars, a huge success, at the time) at the box office.[2]Jamaica Inn is headquarters to a gang of smugglers, led by the innkeeper Joss (Leslie Banks). The smugglers conceal coastal beacons in order to cause ships to run aground. Then they loot the wrecks and kill the surviving sailors.Mary (Maureen O'Hara), the orphaned niece of Joss's wife Patience (Marie Ney) comes to live at the inn, and saves the life of Traherne (Robert Newton), a gang member lynched by his fellow smugglers for embezzling. Traherne is actually an inside man, trying to bring down Joss' gang. They flee the inn and seek the protection of Sir Humphrey Pengallon, the local magistrate, little knowing that that he actually protects Joss' gang, as he needs the loot in order to maintain his lavish lifestyle.Traherne and Mary must race against time to stop a ship from being wrecked, and an unlikely love affair blossoms.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/10299/jamaica-inn-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/jamaica-inn-film/10299/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/jamaica-inn-film/10299/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/9903/i-confess-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: I Confess (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 95 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />I Confess is a 1953 Black & White crime film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue.The film is based on a 1902 French play by Paul Anthelme called Nos Deux Consciences, a play Hitchcock saw in the 1930s. The screenplay was written by George Tabori.The movie was largely filmed on location in Quebec City, Canada, with numerous shots of the city landscape and interiors of its churches and other emblematic buildings, such as the Château Frontenac.Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) is a devout Catholic priest in a church in Quebec City. To take care of the church and the rectory, Father Logan employes a caretaker, Otto Keller (O. E. Hasse), and a housekeeper, Otto's wife Alma (Dolly Haas), who are German immigrants with very little money, although in their homeland they were more affluent. Otto Keller also works part-time as a gardener for a few householders in Quebec City.Very late one evening Keller asks if Father Logan will hear his confession. In the confessional, Keller confesses that he went to try to steal money from a person he gardens for, a rich lawyer called Villette, and in the process he killed him. Because of the binding nature of the secrecy of the confessional, Father Logan cannot tell the police anything he now knows about this crime.At the time of the murder, two young girls saw someone leaving the house of the murdered man wearing a cassock. While this was just Otto's disguise, suspicion falls upon Father Logan himself (who can provide no alibi for the time of the murder, cannot talk about the confession he heard, and cannot name the true murderer), since it gradually becomes apparent that Logan, in his early life before he became a priest, had a girlfriend, Ruth (Anne Baxter), who has always loved him and still does, even though she is now married to someone else.In flashbacks it is shown that Logan stopped writing to Ruth not long after he went off to war. After he came back, Ruth and Logan ended up stranded on an island during a storm, and were forced to shelter for the night in a gazebo. In the morning Villette finds them there, makes offensive comments about Ruth, and is punched by Logan. It turns out that Ruth had married a prominent politician without ever telling Logan, who leaves her and does not see her for years. But Ruth has been blackmailed by Villette, as both she and her husband's lives would be ruined if her post-marital relation with Logan were made public, and so she meets him on the night of the murder to ask for advice.Villette's death is a relief to Ruth, and she tells the police about her meeting with Father Logan to provide him an alibi. In fact the police assumes that Father Logan killed the blackmailer Villette to protect Ruth and himself, and that there is an on-going scandalous relationship between the two of them. The situation is made worse by Otto Keller, who lies extensively to the police in order to try to ensure that he is safe from suspicion while Father Logan is convicted for murder.Father Logan comes very close to being found guilty and executed for a crime he did not commit, a sort of martyrdom. At the end of his trial, he is just barely found "not guilty", but his reputation as a priest is ruined, and the people of Quebec City gathered on the courthouse steps revile him. Otto's wife cannot bear to see this, and starts to shout that it was her husband that killed the man, but Otto pulls out a gun and shoots his wife, to silence her.Running away, Otto is cornered by the police in the grand ballroom of the Château Frontenac. The detective who investigated the story, unable to elicit any comment from Father Logan, suspects that Otto is really Villette's murder, and asks him so. Otto assumes Father Logan broke the secret of his confession, assumes he is guilty, and tries to shoot Father Logan, who bravely attempted to approach him and reason with him. Instead, Otto himself is fatally wounded by a police sharpshooter. In extremis Otto calls out to Father Logan to forgive him, and receives absolution.Subtle visual references to Christ, the cross, and the crucifix, occur frequently throughout the movie. The soundtrack uses the melody from the Gregorian Chant Dies Irae throughout.Alfred Hitchcock's cameo is a signature occurrence in most of his films. In I Confess he can be seen (right after the credits) walking along the sidewalk at the top of a steep stairway.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/9903/i-confess-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/i-confess-film/9903/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/i-confess-film/9903/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8801/frenzy"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Frenzy</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 116 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Frenzy is a 1972 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The film is based upon the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern, and was adapted for the screen by Anthony Shaffer. La Bern later expressed his dissatisfaction with Shaffer's adaptation. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.Frenzy was Hitchcock's first film to earn an R-rating in the United States, as Psycho was originally released unrated. The film was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.The film has become well known for a couple of grisly key scenes. The rape and murder of the Brenda character, played by Barbara Leigh-Hunt, makes use of numerous short edits in a similar fashion to the Janet Leigh shower scene in Psycho, and this serves to heighten the images of violence and horror.Only one murder is depicted onscreen, as screenwriter Shaffer convinced Hitchcock that to show a second murder would be redundant. The murder of the barmaid Barbara Jane "Babs" Milligan occurs off-screen, although the audience sees her entering the killer's apartment and is left with a clear message that she will be murdered. The audience next sees the killer carrying a large sack and placing it onto the back of a lorry where it sits unobtrusively among a load of unsold potatoes ready to be transported back to Lincolnshire. He soon recalls that as he was strangling her, Babs had torn a pin from his lapel. He climbs on to the lorry to retrieve the pin from Babs' dead fingers, only to find the lorry starting off on its journey north. The killer desperately scrabbles through the sack of potatoes to find the dead woman's hand. As rigor mortis has set in, he is unable to prise the pin from her grasp until he has broken her fingers. This sequence is also composed of numerous edits to create tension and remains one of this film's most identifiable scenes.As in several other previous Hitchcock films, the audience is fully aware of the identity of the killer (Bob Rusk, played by Barry Foster) very early in the proceedings, and is also shown how circumstantial guilt is rapidly built up around an innocent man (Richard Blaney, played by Jon Finch). Blaney is duly apprehended by the police and jailed, all the while maintaining his innocence. The investigating detective reconsiders the previous events and begins to believe that he has arrested the wrong man. In several scenes showing the detective's domestic situation, comedy is used to heighten the grisly nature of the death scenes.The detective and his wife discuss the case and the wife gently points the detective in the right direction with a series of simple but appropriate questions and comments. The innocent man escapes from prison, and the detective knows that he will head to Rusk's flat at Covent Garden, so immediately goes there. Blaney has already arrived to find that the door to Rusk's flat is unlocked. He silently creeps in and sees what he presumes to be the top of Rusk's head, asleep in bed; he strikes the body with a metal bar. Just then the audience is shown the truth: it is not Rusk in bed, but another woman whose hand slips out from under the covers. Blaney pulls the covers back and there both for him and the audience it is confirmed: the face of another victim.Suddenly the detective bursts through the door while Blaney is still standing over the corpse in shock holding the metal bar. Blaney protests his innocence to the detective but the expression on the policeman's face is clearly one of doubt; just then they both hear Rusk carrying something large and heavy up the staircase. The detective then realises Blaney is innocent and the two men wait in the flat for the killer, the detective hiding behind the door, while Blaney simply stands by the bed. When Rusk arrives, he has a large trunk with him, to carry away the dead body, and with the body lying in the bed, his guilt is finally obvious. The film ends with Chief Inspector Oxford's line, "Mr. Rusk, you're not wearing your tie". The abrupt ending of the film leaves the audience to understand that Blaney will be released, Rusk will be arrested and eventually sent to prison for life.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8801/frenzy">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/frenzy/8801/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/frenzy/8801/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8706/foreign-correspondent-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Foreign Correspondent (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 120 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized Second World War. It stars Joel McCrea and features Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn.The film had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film. It was based on Vincent Sheean's 1935 political memoir Personal History, the rights to which were purchased by producer Walter Wanger for $10,000.The film was one of two Alfred Hitchcock films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941, the other being Rebecca, which went on to win the award. Foreign Correspondent was nominated for six Academy Awards, including one for Albert Bassermann for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but did not win any.The editor of the New York Globe (Harry Davenport) is concerned about the situation in Europe and the growing power of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. After searching for a good, tough crime reporter, he appoints Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea) as a foreign correspondent, under the pen name "Huntley Haverstock".The reporter's first assignment is Stephen Fisher (Herbert Marshall), leader of the Universal Peace Party, at a party held by Fisher in honor of a diplomat named Van Meer (Albert Bassermann). On the way to the party, Haverstock sees Van Meer entering the car which is to take him to the party, and runs to interview him; Van Meer invites him to ride along. At the party, Haverstock meets Fisher's daughter, Carol (Laraine Day). Van Meer disappears mysteriously. Later, Fisher informs the guests that Van Meer, who was supposed to be the guest of honor, will not be attending the party; instead he will be at a political conference in Amsterdam.At the conference, Van Meer is shot in front of a large crowd by a man disguised as a photographer. Haverstock commandeers a car to follow the assassin's getaway car. The car he jumps into happens to have in it Carol and Scott ffolliott [sic] (George Sanders), another reporter who explains that the capital letter in his surname was dropped in memory of an executed ancestor. The group follows the assassin to a windmill in the countryside.While Carol and ffolliott go for help, Haverstock searches the windmill and finds a live Van Meer – the man who was killed was an impostor. The old man is drugged and unable to tell him anything. Haverstock is forced to flee when the kidnappers become aware of him. By the time the police arrive, the villains have escaped with Van Meer in an airplane.Later, back at Haverstock's hotel room, two spies dressed as policemen arrive to kidnap him. When he suspects who they really are, he escapes out the window and into Carol Fisher's room.Haverstock and Carol board a British boat to England, and while a furious storm thunders overhead, he proposes to her. In England, the two go to Carol's father's house, where Haverstock sees a man whom he recognizes as one of the men at the windmill. He informs Fisher, but Fisher ignores him, saying that he will send a bodyguard to protect him. However, the bodyguard (Edmund Gwenn) repeatedly tries to kill Haverstock instead. When the assassin tries to push him off the top of the Westminster Cathedral tower, Haverstock steps aside just in time and the "bodyguard" plunges to his death instead.Haverstock and ffolliott are convinced that Fisher is a traitor, so the two come up with a plan, with Haverstock taking Carol to the countryside, while ffolliott pretends she has been kidnapped to force Fisher to divulge Van Meer's location. However, Haverstock and Carol argue, and she returns to London. Just as Fisher is about to fall for ffolliott's bluff, he hears her car pull up.ffolliott follows Fisher to a hotel where Van Meer is being held. Just as Van Meer is being forced to divulge the information the organization wants, ffolliott distracts the interrogators. When Haverstock arrives, Fisher and his bodyguards escape, leaving Van Meer behind. Van Meer is rushed to the hospital in a coma.In the meantime, England and France have declared war on Germany. Then, while the group are on a Short Empire "Clipper" plane to America, Fisher confesses his deeds to his daughter. Despite this, Carol blames Haverstock for not really loving her and only wanting to pursue her father. He protests that he was just doing his job as a reporter, but Carol refuses to listen. Seconds later, the plane is shelled by a German destroyer and crashes into the ocean. The survivors perch on the floating wing of the downed plane. Realizing that it cannot support everyone, including his daughter, Fisher commits suicide by allowing himself to drown. Jones and ffolliott attempt to save him, but are unsuccessful. Shortly after, they are picked up by an American ship.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8706/foreign-correspondent-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/foreign-correspondent-film/8706/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/foreign-correspondent-film/8706/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8460/the-farmers-wife"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Farmer's Wife</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 129 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Farmer’s Wife (1928) is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon.The plot is a romantic comedy and tells the story of a lonely widower, Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) who decides to remarry. He pursues several local spinsters, who each reject his advances. However, Aramintha (Lillian Hall-Davis), his housekeeper, is secretly in love with him and eventually Sweetland comes to realise that the right woman was there on his doorstep all along.The supporting cast includes Gordon Harker, in a comic role as a surly workman called Churdles Ash; Gibb McLaughlin as Henry Coaker; and Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper.After being thought in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8460/the-farmers-wife">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-farmers-wife/8460/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-farmers-wife/8460/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8428/family-plot"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Family Plot</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 121 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Family Plot is a 1976 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his final completed film. It stars Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane and Karen Black. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition.The story involves a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler (played by Harris), and her con artist taxi driver boyfriend, George Lumley (played by Dern), who attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guiltridden old woman, Julia Rainbird (played by Nesbitt). Julia, one of Blanche's clients, was responsible for her now-deceased sister giving up a boy for adoption years earlier and now wants to make him her heir. She will pay $10,000 if he is found.However, the nephew and prospective heir is now a successful jeweler in San Francisco known as Arthur Adamson (played by Devane), who has a secret and lurid past, having apparently murdered his adoptive parents and faked his own death. With his girlfriend Fran (played by Black), he has successfully kidnapped an assortment of millionaires and dignitaries, returning them when the ransom, a valuable gemstone, has been delivered, which they hide in their chandelier.When Arthur learns that Blanche and George are pursuing him, he suspects the worst, putting their lives in danger.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8428/family-plot">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/family-plot/8428/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/family-plot/8428/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8148/easy-virtue-1928-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Easy Virtue (1928 film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: min. 79 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Easy Virtue (1928) is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on a play by Noël Coward.The heroine Larita (Isabel Jeans) is married to a drunken brute. After he catches her almost being seduced by the artist who has been painting her picture, he brings suit for divorce on the grounds of adultery. Since she is now a disgraced woman of "easy virtue", Larita takes to the French Riviera where she meets and marries a rich younger man, John Whittaker (Robin Irvine). She doesn't tell him about her past and they return to England to meet his family. His mother takes against her, suspecting Larita of immorality.Larita's past comes to light and she decides to allow John to divorce her so he can marry Sarah, a local girl who his mother had in mind as a suitable match.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8148/easy-virtue-1928-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/easy-virtue-1928-film/8148/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/easy-virtue-1928-film/8148/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8018/downhill-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Downhill (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 80 min., 74 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />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 fourth film.Roddy Berwich (Ivor Novello), born into a rich family, he is the School Captain, and head of the "Old Boys" Rugby team. He makes a "pact" of loyalty with his best friend Tim Wakeley (Robin Irvine). Roddy begins a downhill spiral after being falsely accused of impregnating a waitress (Daisy Johnson), who turns vindictive after Roddy spurns her amorous advances. Roddy accepts the blame, to protect the real father, Tim, who desperately needs to stay in school to receive his Oxford scholarship.Roddy is expelled from school and leaves home after being disowned by his father (Norman McKinnel) who believes him guilty of the false accusation.[1] (The Internet Movie Database incorrectly states that Robby accepts the blame for a theft).Roddy finds some work as an actor in a theatre. He marries the leading actress Julia (Isabel Jeans) after inheriting £30,000. The unfaithful Julia secretly continues an affair with her leading man (Ian Hunter) and discards Roddy after his inheritance is exhausted. He becomes a gigolo in a Paris music hall but soon quits over self loathing at romancing women for money.Roddy ends up alone and delirious in a shabby room in Marseilles. Some sailors take pity on him and ship him back home. Robby's father has learned the truth about the waitress's false accusation during his son's absence and joyfully welcomes him back. Robby resumes his previous life.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/8018/downhill-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/downhill-film/8018/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/downhill-film/8018/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/7815/dial-m-for-murder"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Dial M for Murder</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 105 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Dial M for Murder (1954) is a howcatchem film directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, and Robert Cummings, and released by Warner Brothers. The movie was based on the almost identical stage play of the same title by English playwright Frederick Knott (1916-2002).Dial M for Murder premiered in 1952 as a BBC television play, before being performed on the stage in the same year (West End in June, and then Broadway in October).The screenplay was written by Knott, who moved to the U.S. in 1954 and wrote only one other well-known play, Wait Until Dark (1966), which was filmed a year later. He also wrote a lesser-known play, Write Me a Murder (1961), which ran for 196 performances at Belasco Theater. Knott's work tends to focus on women who innocently become the potential victims of sinister plots.There is just one setting in the stage play of Dial M for Murder: the living-room of the Wendices' flat in London (61A Charrington Gardens, Maida Vale). Hitchcock's film adds a second setting in a gentleman's club, a few views of the street outside and a stylized courtroom montage. Having seen the play on Broadway, Cary Grant was keen to play the role of Tony Wendice, but studio chiefs did not feel the public would accept him as a man who arranges to have his wife murdered.In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "Ten Top Ten" — the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres — after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Dial M for Murder was ranked the ninth best film in the mystery genre in the AFI's list.Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) is a former tennis player who married Margot (Grace Kelly) partly for her money. To please his wife, he has given up tennis and now sells sports equipment. Margot once had a relationship with Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), an American crime novelist, but broke it off when Mark went to the U.S. for a year. In time, they stopped writing to each other.Tony and Margot have made their wills, naming each other as beneficiary. For a year, Tony meticulously plans Margot's murder. She has no idea that Tony knows of her love for Mark. He has gone to great lengths to steal a handbag containing one of Mark's letters, and even assumed the role of an anonymous Brixton-based blackmailer to find out whether she would pay to have it back. (She did, but he asked for only £50.) He even watched them having a little farewell party (eating spaghetti with mushrooms) in Mark's studio flat in Chelsea.Tony slyly withdraws small amounts of money for a year, collecting £1,000 in (used) one-pound notes, with which he plans to pay a contract killer. He singles out the perfect man to do the job: C. A. Swann (Anthony Dawson), who now calls himself "Captain Lesgate", a former acquaintance who has embarked on a life of petty crime since even before leaving Cambridge where he and Tony were both students. By following him and finding out about his past and associations, Tony soon gets enough to blackmail Swann into murdering his wife.Tony uses the opportunity of Mark's return to London to carry out his plan. Under a pretext—he has to prepare an urgent report for his boss—he has Margot and Mark go to the theatre and, when they are gone, he invites Swann to his flat under another pretext—wanting to buy an expensive car from him. When Swann arrives at 61A Charrington Gardens that night, Tony gets down to business. There is no time to lose, as he has planned the murder for the following night. Trapped in a corner by the revelations of his past crimes and tempted by the money, Swann agrees.Tony has invited Mark to join him at a stag party in a nearby hotel—this is how he secures himself an alibi. The idea is that the police should think that a burglar was surprised by Margot, that he panicked, strangled her and left without the loot. He has told Swann that he is going to phone his own flat at exactly 11 p.m. so that Margot will come to the living-room to answer the phone, whereupon she will be murdered by Swann. There are only two keys to the Wendices' ground floor flat. Before leaving for the stag party, Tony steals Margot's key from her handbag and hides it under the stair carpet outside their flat for Swann to use.Mark, a writer of crime scenarios, says at one point that, theoretically, he would be able to plan the perfect murder but that it would be impossible to carry out any plan of his because in real life people just do not act according to other people's plans. This is true of Margot, too: Instead of listening to the radio in her bedroom when Tony and Mark are away, she tells her husband of her own plans to go to the cinema that night. Tony has a hard time persuading his wife to instead stay at home and stick into an album some old newspaper clippings of his when he was a tennis star. Margot finally consents and for that reason takes a (seemingly) huge pair of scissors out of her mending basket (which also contains a pair of her stockings). When she has finished the tiresome job she goes to bed, carelessly leaving the scissors lying on the desk next to the phone.According to Tony's plan, Swann secretly enters the Wendices' flat shortly before 11 o'clock, hides behind the drawn curtains, a scarf in his hands, and waits for the telephone to ring and for Margot to come out of her bedroom to answer it. When she does, the plan goes terribly wrong: Swann attacks her from behind—with Tony all the while listening in to what is going on over the phone—but Margot turns out to be rather strong and eventually stabs Swann in the back with the scissors. He falls to the floor and is dead at once. In his panic, Tony tells his sobbing wife not to touch or do anything until he has come home, which he hurriedly does.Tony's mind has to work fast now if he wants to come up with an alternative plan. He realizes he can make it look as if Margot had been blackmailed by Swann, that the blackmailer came to her flat in person and that she actually let him in with the intention of murdering him (rather than killing him in self-defense). After calling the police and sending Margot back to bed, he plants the letter on Swann (to make it appear that he was blackmailing Margot), finds the latch key on Swann and puts it back in Margot's handbag, and burns the scarf that Swann used, replacing it with one of Margot's stockings. He hides the twin stocking on the desk, but intentionally "accidentally" uncovers it for the police to find (making it look as though Margot inflicted the bruises by herself). Finally, Tony tells Margot to deny that he told her not to call the police. Although he tells her that it will lessen the police suspicion, it has the opposite effect, making it appear as though she avoided calling the police.Eventually, the police establish that Swann came in through the hall door rather than the French windows leading into the garden, as his shoes are not dirty. After an intermission, we are introduced to Inspector Hubbard, who questions the Wendices and appears to believe the evidence that Tony planted, eventually becoming highly suspicious of Margot. The movie cuts immediately to the trial scene where she is convicted and sentenced to be hanged, thus accomplishing Tony's plan after all.There are two things Tony has not reckoned with: (a) that Swann replaced the key under the stair carpet immediately after using it rather than when leaving the flat again and that, accordingly, the key Tony takes out of the dead man's pocket is the key to Swann's own flat; and (b) that getting rid of £1,000 in cash (the money he would have paid to Swann, which he does not have to now that he is dead) by making many purchases is a conspicuous thing to do, bound to be investigated by the police. They do, but Tony is not aware of it.On the day before Margot's scheduled execution, Mark visits Tony to propose a very unusual thing to him. Rather than seeing his wife hanged, he could come up with a completely new story, confess at the last minute that he hired Swann to kill his wife and save her life by going to prison for some years himself instead. Coincidentally, Mark has come up with exactly what Tony actually did. Mark argues that during Margot's trial, all arguments revolved around three things only: (1) Mark's letter found on Swann; (2) the fact that no key was found on Swann (and that there was no forced entry either); and (3) Margot's stocking. Mark argues that all this could be altered, and that Tony could put all the blame on himself, claiming that it was he who had done all that.Then Inspector Hubbard arrives at the flat again, purportedly to ask Tony about the money he has been spending lately. This is when Mark discovers Tony's attaché case filled with the remaining one pound notes. Pressed for an answer, Tony manages a final impromptu lie in front of both Mark and the police: he tells them this is the money Margot had ready when she met Swann but that she changed her mind and killed him instead of paying him off. The inspector accepts this explanation and dismisses Mark's theory, or so it seems.In fact, the inspector, who has not given up the case yet, remains suspicious of Tony and sets a trap. He borrows the key from Margot's handbag — which is kept in prison — and goes to Tony's flat while Tony is not home. He finds that it does not fit the lock. He discovers that the key actually fits Swann's door. After some searching he discovers the actual key under the carpet.Then the inspector uses his final trick. He visits Tony to ask some questions and when he leaves he deliberately takes Tony's raincoat instead of his own. (The raincoats are apparently very similar and so are the keys.) Tony also leaves his flat. Inspector Hubbard secretly enters the flat, using the key from the raincoat, telephones the prison and asks that Margot be released. Margot, who does not understand why she has been released, goes home, and finds that the key in her handbag does not fit the lock. Hubbard waits some time, he wants to find out whether she knows the hiding place under the stair carpet. She does not, so that clears her of any suspicion. The inspector opens the door for her. Hubbard tells a colleague to take the handbag back to the police station. Hubbard and Margot then wait for Tony's homecoming.When Tony comes home he realizes that he cannot get inside: he is wearing Hubbard's raincoat with Hubbard's key. Hubbard and Margot hide themselves inside and do not open the door. Then Tony remembers that he had been told to collect Margot's belongings from the police station, so he goes there to fetch her handbag, with the key. When he comes home he finds that the key from Margot's handbag — actually Swann's — does not fit into the lock. Tony starts thinking what could have happened. When he takes the key from under the stair carpet he gives himself away.Tony enters the room to find Margot and the inspector, and Mark too. He realizes he's been found out and congratulates the inspector. He then offers everyone a drink, acting very casual, as tears begin to stream down his wife's face. The last scene is of the inspector, acting in a manner that shows he's proud of himself, as he combs his mustache.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/7815/dial-m-for-murder">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/dial-m-for-murder/7815/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/dial-m-for-murder/7815/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/6979/champagne-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Champagne (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 93 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Champagne (1928) 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 father after using his airplane to fly to her boyfriend (Jean Braden) on an ocean liner headed to France. She has dinner alone when her boyfriend becomes seasick and is joined at her table by a mysterious man. Betty receives a telegram from her father who disapprovingly warns her the boyfriend is a golddigger. To prove her father wrong she asks the boyfriend to marry her. A quarrel ensues and the two part company when the ship docks.The boyfriend regrets the fight and goes to Betty to apologize. He finds her entertaining guests, including the mysterious man. Another quarrel between the two is interrupted by the arrival of Betty's father (Gordon Harker). He tells Betty the family fortune, earned in the "champagne" business, has been wiped out in the stock market. The boyfriend leaves after hearing the news of their fortune. The father sees this as proof the boyfriend is only after money.Betty decides to sell her jewelry but is robbed en route to the jewelers. Now penniless Betty and her father move into a small shabby apartment. Unbeknownst to Betty her father sneaks out to eat at an expensive restaurant after her cooking proves to be terrible. Once again her boyfriend tries for a reconciliation but is rebuked by Betty, who now thinks her father is right about the boyfriend, vows to get a job.Betty finds work at a swank restaurant. Soon the mysterious man shows up and invites Betty to his table. She becomes uncomfortable with the stranger and is relieved when her boyfriend once again arrives. The mysterious man leaves after handing her a note that advises her to call him if she ever needs any help. The boyfriend openly disapproves of Betty's job. He leaves after a still angry Betty dances wildly to provoke him.The boyfriend soon returns with Betty's father. He is outraged at Betty's "unseemly" job and confesses he lied about the loss of their fortune to teach her a lesson. Rather than being pleased, Betty is further angered by both the father and the boyfriend. She turns to the mysterious man who offers to take Betty back to America. Betty gladly accepts but is later horrified to find she has been locked in her cabin. She imagines the worst about the mysterious man's intentions and is both relieved and delighted when her boyfriend arrives yet again and releases her from the cabin. They soon reconcile.The boyfriend hides in the bathroom when they hear the mysterious man approaching. He enters with her father who confesses he hired the man to follow and protect her. The boyfriend is furious and comes forth to attack the man. Betty's father pacifies the boyfriend's anger by telling him he no longer disapproves of their wedding. The reunited couple start discussing the wedding when once again another argument starts.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/6979/champagne-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/champagne-film/6979/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/champagne-film/6979/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/6470/blackmail-1929-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Blackmail (1929 film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 84 minutes</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Blackmail is a 1929 thriller/drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard, and featuring Donald Calthrop, Sara Allgood and Charles Paton. The film is based on the play Blackmail by Charles Bennett, as adapted by Hitchcock, with dialogue by Benn Levy. The film, which began production as a silent film -- but was converted to sound during shooting—is considered to be the first all-talkie feature British film.Scotland Yard Detective Frank Webber (Longden) escorts his girlfriend Alice White (Ondra) to a tea house. They have an argument and Alice leaves with Mr. Crewe (Ritchard), an artist whom she has earlier agreed to meet. At his studio, Crewe sings and plays "Miss Up-to-Date" on the piano. Alice innocently flirts with the artist. He convinces her to try on a dress then attempts to assault her as she is changing. Alice grabs a nearby bread knife and stabs him to death.Alice leaves after attempting to conceal any evidence of her presence in the flat. She has, however, unknowingly left her gloves behind. The next day Frank is assigned to the case and finds one of the gloves. He realizes the glove belongs to Alice and visits Alice at her father's shop. Local petty thief Tracey (Donald Calthrop), who saw Alice at the artist's flat earlier, interrupts the two and attempts to blackmail the couple. Frank tells Tracey his attempt will fail.The tables are turned when Tracey becomes the chief suspect after the artist's landlady identifies him as being at the scene of the crime. Tracey flees and is pursued by the police. He clambers onto the domed roof of the British Museum and is killed after falling through a glass panel of the dome.Alice feels compelled to confess she killed the artist and goes to Scotland Yard. She attempts to talk to the Chief Inspector but is escorted out by Frank.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/6470/blackmail-1929-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/blackmail-1929-film/6470/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/blackmail-1929-film/6470/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/6415/the-birds-film"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Birds (film)</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 119 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />The Birds (1963) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. It depicts a small town in the San Francisco Bay area which is, suddenly and for unexplained reasons, the subject of a series of massive bird attacks over the course of a few days.The screenplay was written by Evan Hunter, who penned the 87th Precinct novels using the pseudonym "Ed McBain".Beautiful and young Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), a wealthy socialite whose father is an owner of a large newspaper, visits a San Francisco pet shop to pick up a myna bird she has ordered for her aunt. There, Melanie meets Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), a lawyer who is looking for a pair of lovebirds to give to his young sister. Mitch sees Melanie and then pretends to mistake her for a salesperson. Melanie acts out the role believing that she's fooling Mitch until he reveals that he knew all along that she was not a salesperson of birds. Melanie, infuriated, inquires as to the reason for Mitch's behavior and he then mentions a previous encounter that he had with her in court when he had first seen her.Intrigued by him, she buys the lovebirds and finds the address for Mitch's home in Bodega Bay, a small coastal village up the Pacific coast. Melanie drives to Bodega Bay and delivers the birds by sneaking across the small harbor in a motor boat to the Brenner residence. Melanie walks right into the house and leaves the birds on a foot stool with a note. As Melanie is heading back across the bay, Mitch observes her through a pair of binoculars, then circles around the bay in his car to meet her. Just as she is about to pull up to the dock, a seagull swoops down and gashes her head.Over the next few days the avian attacks continue, as Melanie's initial relationship with Mitch, his clinging mother, Lydia (Jessica Tandy), his 11-year-old sister, Cathy (Veronica Cartwright), and Cathy's teacher (and Mitch's former lover) Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette) further develop. The second strange bird-incident occurs when Melanie stays for the night at Hayworth's house and a gull kills itself upon hitting the front door. Then, the attacks begin to escalate from a few birds strafing Cathy's birthday party, to a neighboring farmer's gruesome death, and then a mass attack on the town's children at their school.Melanie then calls her father, a newspaper publisher in San Francisco, in a bar. Her phone conversation with him takes the interest of others, who all listen. A fisherman tells her of how the gulls had been following his boats. An old woman (Ethel Griffies) who is an amateur ornothologist, insists that the birds attacking is an exaggeration, and that it is not possible for birds, let alone ones of different species, to flock together and attack, as they don't have the intelligence. Despite this, right outside the window a motorist is attacked while filling his automobile with gasoline; the motorist gets knocked unconscious, the hose lands on the ground and the gasoline continues to pump out onto the street. The gas flows down the street to where a person lighting a cigar ignites the gas. An explosion and fire result. There are more deaths as the movie-goer is given a "bird's-eye" view of the scene as the birds swoop in on the citizens on the town. As Melanie and others rush out of the bar to help, birds swoop down at them and Melanie is forced to take refuge in a phone booth. Melanie is rescued by Mitch after the windows of the booth are broken by suicidal birds.After the attack subsides, Melanie and Mitch go to collect Cathy at Annie's house. Noticing that the crows are gathering at the school again, they move along quietly to Annie's house, where they find her dead on her front porch and Cathy crying at the window.Melanie and Mitch's family ultimately take refuge in Mitch's house, boarding up the doors and windows. In the evening when everyone else is asleep, Melanie hears noises from the upper floor. She investigates a closed door only to find that the birds have broken through the roof. They attack her, sealing her in the room until Mitch comes to her rescue. Lydia and Mitch bandage Melanie's wounds, but determine she must get to a hospital. In a surreal and apocalyptic scene, a sea of landed birds ripples menacingly around them as they leave the house, but do not attack. The radio gives reports of several smaller attacks by birds in a few other communities in coastal California. The sea of birds parts as they slowly proceed toward the road and pick up speed. The film concludes with the four driving away from the farm, down the coast road and out of sight, as thousands of birds watch them.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/6415/the-birds-film">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-birds-film/6415/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-birds-film/6415/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/5456/aventure-malgache"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/filmannex_logo.gif" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Aventure Malgache</p> <p>Movie Language: French</p> <p>Movie Length: 30 min.</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Aventure Malgache is a 1944 French language propaganda short film made by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. In it, an actor tells of being in the Resistance and running an illegal radio station and dodging Nazis. The title means "Malagasy Adventure" in English.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/5456/aventure-malgache">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/aventure-malgache/5456/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/aventure-malgache/5456/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/875/please-forgive-me"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/movie_imgs/p_875_184_220.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: Please Forgive Me</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 5 seconds</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Bite from The Man Who Knew Too Much</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/875/please-forgive-me">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/please-forgive-me/875/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/please-forgive-me/875/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/613/the-39-steps"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/movie_imgs/p_613_184_220.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The 39 Steps</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 1:27:00</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign agents. He takes her back to his apartment, but they are followed and later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring and thus prove his innocence.</p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/613/the-39-steps">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-39-steps/613/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-39-steps/613/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000<p><a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/267/the-man-who-knew-too-much"><img src="http://static.filmannex.com/images/movie_imgs/p_267_184_220.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Movie Title: The Man Who Knew Too Much</p> <p>Movie Language: English</p> <p>Movie Length: 1:15:00</p> <p>Movie Synopsis:<br />Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a winter sports holiday with their teenage daughter Betty. When their friend Louis Bernard is shot whilst dancing with Jill, he tells Bob of an assassination about to take place in London. Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Betty in order to keep the Lawrence's quiet. Bob and Jill return to London and take matters into their own hands. Bob Lawrence (Banks) and his crack-shot wife, Jill (Best) are holidaying in Switzerland when their French friend, Louis Bernard (Frensay) is gunned down, warning them, with his dying breath, of an imminent diplomatic assassination. To ensure the couple's silence, the conspirators kidnap their daughter (Nova Pilbeam). However, Abbot (Lorre) and his comrades have fatally underestimated British pluck. Jill and Bob Lawrence are on a winter holiday with their daughter, Betty. While he is dancing with Jill, the secret agent Louis Bernard is shot to death. With his last words he tells Jill about an assassination planned by some terrorists, about to take place in London. Fearing their plan would be revealed, the spies kidnap Betty and carry her off to London with them. Bob and Jill come back to London too, searching for their daughter. </p> <p>Link: <a href="http://www.filmannex.com/movie/film/267/the-man-who-knew-too-much">click to watch</a></p>http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-man-who-knew-too-much/267/http://www.filmannex.com/movie/the-man-who-knew-too-much/267/01 01 2007 00:00:00 +0000