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  • Robert Donat Collectors Guide, Part 2

    by Brent Reid 18th October 2024

    1932–1934 Shooting star: By his late 20s, Robert Donat had assumed leading man status Sadly, his first two films are lost and the third is a shadow of its former …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: The Lady Vanishes (1938), Part 4

    by Brent Reid 14th January 2021

    More “Vanishing Lady” films The “Vanishing Lady” is an oft-recurring theme in print, on stage, and on film The Master’s take on the trope is perhaps the most influential and …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

    by Brent Reid 16th August 2019

    This hidden gem is sadly one of the Master’s most underrated films Features Jessie Matthews, Britain’s biggest and first international film star First and best of a famous German operetta’s many screen …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: The Skin Game (1931)

    by Brent Reid 21st June 2019

    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 …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926), Part 4

    by Brent Reid 23rd September 2018

    Remakes Marie Belloc Lowndes’ best-selling 1913 novel has inspired many adaptations Hitchcock’s classic 1926 silent was first and is still perhaps the best known There has been a century of …

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