Category: Alfred Hitchcock Collection

– Summary – Director :  Alfred Hitchcock Year Of Release :   1930 Principal Cast :  Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander, Esme percy, Donald Calthrop, Esme V Chaplin, Amy Brandon-Thomas, Joynson Powell, SJ Warmington, Marie Wright, Hannah Jones, Una O’Connor, RE Jeffrey. Approx Running Time :   92 Minutes Synopsis:   A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. ********** Hitchcock’s third “talkie”, made in 1930, is a far cry better than his…

  – Summary – Director :  Alfred Hitchcock Year Of Release :  1930 Principal Cast :  Barrie Fitzgerald, Marie O’Neill, Edward Chapman, Sidney Morgan, Sara Allgood, John Laurie, Dave Morris, Kathleen O’Regan, John Longden, Dennis Wyndham. Approx Running Time :  96 Minutes Synopsis:  During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life forgetting what the most important values are. ********** The luck of the Irish. Juno & The Paycock is an interesting Hitchcock film in that it represents an early “experimental” project for…

– Summary – Director :  Alfred Hitchcock Year Of Release :   1929 Principal Cast :  Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton, Clare Greet, Kim Peacock. Approx Running Time :  110 Minutes Synopsis:   A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl. ********* So that’s where Michael Bay got his story for Pearl Harbor! The Manxman’s debut in 1929 would represent a watershed moment for Hitchcock’s directorial career. It would be his final silent film; his subsequent movie, Blackmail,…

– Summary – Director :  Alfred Hitchcock Year Of Release :   1928 Principal Cast :  Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maude Gill, Louie Pounds, Olga Slade, Ruth Maitland, Antonia Brough, Mollie Ellis. Approx Running Time :  129 Minutes Synopsis:   After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process. *********** As close as we get to a Hitchcock romantic comedy? Hmm. The Farmer’s Wife isn’t about the wife of a farmer, so much, it’s…

– Summary – Director :  Alfred Hitchcock Year Of Release :   1928 Principal Cast :  Isabel Jeans, Robin Irvine, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Ian Hunter, Violet Farebrother, Frank Elliot, Dacia Deane, Dorothy Boyd, Enid Stamp Taylor. Approx Running Time :   80 Minutes Synopsis:   A divorcée hides her scandalous past from her new husband and his family. What we think : Bland, innocuous romantic drama from Hitch, with a palatable story and character sliding down like fast-food. Hitch’s technical skill seems to have gone missing; the film isn’t as showy…