Alfred Hitchcock

Every port tells a different story but fairy tales can turn to nightmares At first glance, just a marvellously inventive, lighthearted little comedy But in Hitch’s hands it’s complex, multi-layered …

Class meets crass and both cruelly trample on innocent dreams One of the Master’s best British films but it’s often unfairly overlooked Class system injustice is laid bare in a …

Home video Master of suspense’s groundbreaking mystery thriller has two separate versions The second multiple-language version, Mary, was unavailable for many years English-language version’s alternate American edit has a much …

In 1956, the Master famously remade his own 1934 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much But 26 years before that, he directed two very different versions of this murder mystery …

The Master co-directed one of Britain’s earliest musicals alongside Adrian Brunel He worked on it after directing Blackmail, Britain’s first talkie, the previous year Amusing all star revue drawn from era’s …

News: A new production of Juno and the Paycock starring J. Smith-Cameron and Mark Rylance at London’s Gielgud Theatre, 21 September–23 November 2024. News: Free commemorative screening of the feature …

Let’s all play in The Pleasure Garden Alfred Hitchcock’s nine surviving silent films digitally restored in 2012  But most of their newly commissioned scores were not studio-recorded The Pleasure Garden was …

Home video Examining every quality release of Hitch’s cinematic ground-breaker Silent and sound versions have five official transfers with four scores Hitchcock-up: long-awaited first US discs are sadly distorted débâcles …

Restorations and scores Shot in two separate versions as the Master’s final silent and first sound film Muted silent: only a preserved print of sound version available for decades Silent …

First talkies and MIA Lays claim to be Britain’s first talkie but the truth is seldom so simple Worldwide cinema’s silent–sound transition didn’t happen overnight Technology progressed with many transatlantic …