by Film School | Apr 22, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #397 Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) If you had it all to do over again, would you have married me? Hitch takes on married life in its screwball form! These comedies were very popular at the time (see: Grant and Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby), so it’s not...
by Film School | Apr 15, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #395 Foreign Correspondent (1940) There’s a crime hatching on that bedeviled continent… World War II is in full swing when this movie releases. Or, at least it is in Europe. London is being bombed, and Hitchcock can’t help but feel,...
by Film School | Apr 8, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #393 Rebecca (1940) Do you think the dead come back and watch the living? Mr. Hitchcock is in Hollywood! Alfred makes his first film in the States, and holy crap does he have some fun with his budget. Everything tinsel town had to offer in 1940 is on...
by Film School | Apr 1, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #391 Jamaica Inn (1939) CHAAADWIIIICK??!! Hitch teams up with dynamo actor Charles Laughton for a tale of piracy, lies, and corruption. The stage actor is riveting, even if the film has its flaws, and apparently he and Alfred had a hard time working...
by Film School | Mar 25, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #389 The Lady Vanishes (1938) Nuns don’t wear high heels… A woman has disappeared into thin air, on a train no less. But when Iris Henderson reports it, nobody believes her. In fact, nobody on the train even knows who she’s talking...
by Film School | Mar 18, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #387 Young and Innocent (1937) Oh Robert, if only things would turn out all right… A woman’s body washes ashore. A young man is seen fleeing from the sight of it. But…did he do it? That’s the question the local constable’s...
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