by Film School | Feb 12, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #377 Waltzes From Vienna (1934) And now the polka, you worms. Hitchcock makes a musical! …kinda. It’s an operetta, which were very much in fashion at the time; a little music, a little dancing, and a love story at the center. This one...
by Film School | Feb 5, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #375 Number Seventeen (1932) Ya don’t have to do nothin’ in this ‘ere house – ya stand still and things happen! Cutting to the chase here: this miiight be Hitchcock’s first truly terrible film. It’s a bit baffling how...
by Film School | Jan 29, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #373 Rich and Strange (1931) I want some of the good things of life… Hitch definitely tries something a little different with this one: it’s a comedy drama this time–not nearly the silly farces he’s tried to this point on the...
by Film School | Jan 22, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #371 The Skin Game (1931) What’s gentility worth if it can’t stand fire? This film is about the revolution in “Industrial Revolution.” An old school landowning family finds their idyllic country world being invaded by a...
by Film School | Jan 15, 2024 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #369 Mary (1931) Das ist kein Theaterstück, das ist das Leben. The 1930s were a wild era in film. The industry was exploding; there was a ton of money to be made, especially in foreign markets…if you could figure out a way to get your movie into...
by Film School | Dec 4, 2023 | Alfred Hitchcock, Deep Dive, Episodes
Episode #363 Murder! (1930) Any answer to that, sir John??? See, now this seems like something Hitchcock: a woman is found beside a dead body with the knife that killed them in her hand. But…did she do it? One juror doesn’t think so, even after...
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