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Notorious
NOTORIOUS USA, 1946 Director:Alfred Hitchcock Production:RKO; black and white; running time: 102 minutes: length: 9,136 feet. Released August 1946. Producer:Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay:Ben Hecht, from a theme by Alfred Hitchcock; assistant... Read more |
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Psycho
PSYCHO USA, 1960 Director:Alfred Hitchcock Production:Universal Pictures; black and white, 35mm; running time: 109 minutes. Released June 1960, originally by Paramount. Filmed on Universal backlots, interiors filmed at Revue Studios, locations shot on... Read more |
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Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn HitchcockSinger, songwriter, guitarist "I wished for the impossible when I was a kid," British rocker Robyn Hitchcock once told Rolling Stone. "When I couldn't realize it, I retreated into fantasy." Thirty-some years and eleven albums later, the eccentric Hitchcock has yet to fully emerge.... Read more |
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Eric Rohmer
ROHMER, Eric Nationality:French. Born:Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in Nancy, France, 4 April 1920. Career:Taught literature teacher at lycée, Nancy, 1942–50; was a film critic, from 1948; founder, with Godard and Rivette, of La Gazette du Cinéma, Paris,... Read more |
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Francois Truffaut
Truffaut, François (1932–84) French film director. His first feature film was The 400 Blows (1959). Other films include Shoot the Pianist (1960), Jules et Jim (1961), and Pocket Money (1976). Truffaut won an Academy Award for best foreign language film for Day for Night (1973). Deeply... Read more |
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Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Hitchcock 1899-1980, English-American film director, writer, and producer, b. London. Hitchcock began his career as a director in 1925 and became prominent with The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). In 1940 he began working in the United States. In his suspense thrillers,... Read more |
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Alfred Hitchcock
HITCHCOCK, Alfred Nationality:British. Born:Alfred Joseph Hitchcock in Leytonstone, London, 13 August 1899, became U.S. citizen, 1955. Education:Salesian College, Battersea, London, 1908; St. Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, London, 1908–13; School of ... Read more |
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Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson Philip Johnson (born 1906) was an American architectural critic and historian and a practicing architect. His buildings are characterized by formal elegance. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 8, 1906, Philip Johnson attended Harvard College, majoring in the classics. There, in... Read more |
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Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter 1926-2005, American novelist, b. New York City as Salvatore A. Lambino, grad. Hunter Coll. (1950). He achieved both success and acclaim with the publication of his third novel, The Blackboard Jungle (1953, film 1955), a vivid, violence-filled classroom tale drawn from his experiences... Read more |
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Hanover (United States)
Hanover 1 Borough (1990 pop. 14,399), York co., SE Pa.; inc. 1815. Industries include food processing (especially pretzels) and the manufacture of apparel; machinery; metal, plastic, and paper products; and chemicals. Standardbred horses are raised there (many famous trotters have "Hanover" ... Read more |
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Imps of the Perverse: Discovering the Poe/Hitchcock Connection
...what many consider Hitchcock's greatest masterpiece, Vertigo. This will...to insights about Hitchcock's peculiar uses...Perhaps because the French have long admired...see his influence on Hitchcock, another of their... |
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A Sleuth of the Silver Screen; Federal Employee Moonlights by Uncovering...
...discovered lost cinematic masterpieces by such directors as Alfred Hitchcock and F. W. Murnau...said. In 1934, Hitchcock came to the United...what they got from Hitchcock were two intricately...about the films in French director Francois... |
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For Hardened Hitchcock Fans: The Master, Sliced and...
...and around the French Riviera by a...a Thief. In Hitchcock's films, people...people." The Hitchcock Murders takes...reaches of the masterpieces, as well as...film for the French Resistance that Hitchcock directed in 1944... |
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A thriller in true Hitchcock style
...Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring James Stewart...which stands as Alfred Hitchcock's most impressive...story, based on the French novel D'entre les...fanciful at times, Hitchcock handles it with a great...Alfred Hitchcock's ... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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A CRITIC'S FAVORITES AMONG CLASSIC HITCHCOCK MOVIES.(DAILY BREAK)
...some as Hitchcock's masterpiece. James Stewart tries...ever spotted in other Hitchcock films. It is also marred...roles. In interviews, Hitchcock referred to her as...the most romantic of Hitchcock films. When Cary Grant...fireworks burst ... |
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Montreal museum makes Hitchcock films come eerily to life.(Travel)
...Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece "The Birds...to the master: "Hitchcock and Art." The...that influenced Hitchcock and the art influenced by him. Hitchcock fans, cinema buffs...ride lands you in a French-speaking country... |
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How Hitchcock's `Vertigo' Ascended the Heights of Moviedom
...restored form: Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo," looking...recognized as not only Hitchcock's masterpiece but one of the half...To begin with, Hitchcock almost didn't make...director went ahead with a French thriller, "D'Entre... |
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Hitchcock works getting an Encore treatment.(Life - Scene)
...the nerve-rending masterpieces "Psycho," "Vertigo...teaching two classes on Hitchcock, I was able to screen...many made before Hitchcock started specializing...the two moody 1944 French-language propaganda...run ning "Alfred Hitchcock ... |
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RESTORED FRENCH THRILLER IS A DAZZLING FILM NOIR.(What's Happening)(Review)
...Georges Clouzot, the French director best known...has been called the "French Hitchcock," and it's a fair-enough analogy. Like Hitchcock, his signature film...of his other unseen masterpieces. Originally shown in... |
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The mystery of the classic film list . . . where's Hitch?
...day, actresses. Hitchcock once notoriously...t like women, Hitchcock could certainly...shooting. Yet it's a masterpiece and is still adored...particular, the French, who have always appreciated Hitchcock (the last time... |
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