Master of Suspense takes his macabre brand of humour to sunny New England Shirley MacLaine’s film début; she later graced another Hitchcockian howdunit Incognito: Philip Truex as titular star is …
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Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation One of Alfred’s five “Missing Hitchcocks”, hardly seen for three decades A comedy about a corpse after the third shot… who’s more alive than …
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Talented but mercurial composer who created many iconic movie scores Golden age of Hollywood great whose works also graced concert halls and radio Joined Alfred Hitchcock for one of the …
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Sounding off: the hidden scandal of revisionist movie audio makeovers Travesty: all have missing or replaced dialogue, music and sound effects Defective: changes are often unintentional but seldom, if ever, …
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One of the most reissued films ever made, both theatrically and on home video But its original, Oscar-nominated sound design hasn’t been heard since the 1970s Audio that helped make …
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2020s revisions Lifeless sentence: latest “restoration” badly botched on Blu-ray, streaming and DCP Posthumous: five decades after the director’s death, film now has unsound audio It’s been unjustly condemned to …
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Home video French fancy flaunts many permutations on home video, with five separate transfers… …three of four distinct English-language soundtracks and seven international dubs But original director-approved mono audio is …
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Soundtrack and audio mixes Composer Lyn Murray’s lush music available in several partial re-recordings But only one rare, limited edition release contains his entire original score Owners Paramount have judged …
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Catch as catch can: the hand on the collar above the rooftops of Nice High-class burglary caper sees idle rich being fleeced on the Côte d’Azur Cary Grant is another …
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Alfred Hitchcock visits the Mediterranean for classy crime caper The lives, loves and lies of beautiful people in the French sunshine Lighthearted thriller stars dream team of Cary Grant and …
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