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  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Stage Fright (1950)

    by Brent Reid 15th July 2025

    The Master of Suspense meets femme fatale Marlene Dietrich Hugely underrated murder mystery that wrongfoots its audience The director returns for another feature shot in his native London Note: this …

  • Canada Lee Collectors Guide

    by Brent Reid 28th February 2025

    Detailing every release of the pioneering Black actor’s five feature films Musician, jockey, prizefighter, stage and screen star, humanitarian, icon Talent and fearless activism renowned by Hollywood and political elite …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Rope (1948), Part 2

    by Brent Reid 30th January 2025

    Production and home video Director’s cameo even more discreet continuation of that for Lifeboat One of the five “missing Hitchcocks” hardly seen for almost two decades 1985–2025: Forty years and …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Rope (1948)

    by Brent Reid 30th January 2025

    April 2025 news: An extremely rare, near-mint condition copy of the original US three sheet poster is for sale by a Parisian collector and film director! You can also contact …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: The Paradine Case (1947)

    by Brent Reid 18th January 2025

    Legal drama with Gregory Peck as his first of three iconic screen lawyers His infatuated fly is drawn into a black widow’s web of deceit and desire Garbo refused role …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache (1944)

    by Brent Reid 18th December 2024

    The Master of Suspense turned his talents towards French wartime propaganda He’d been stung by harsh accusations of abandoning Britain in her hour of need After making his anti-Nazi film …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Lifeboat (1944), Part 2

    by Brent Reid 18th December 2024

    Shorts and controversies Salient warning of fascists’ capabilities angered critics They roundly rejected earnest plea to hit enemies harder Racist controversy shown onscreen spilled over into real life Author Steinbeck …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Lifeboat (1944)

    by Brent Reid 18th December 2024

    Cuckoo in the nest: This underrated, underseen Hitchcock will blow you out of the water! WWII-set drama with nine-strong ensemble cast is one of his grimmest and very best films …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Part 2

    by Brent Reid 10th December 2024

    Soundtrack and remakes Intact: first Hitchcock not to suffer any censor or distributor cuts Tiomkin score makes ironic use of then popular Merry Widow Waltz Story spawned many radio adaptations and screen quasi-remakes …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Saboteur (1942)

    by Brent Reid 10th December 2024

    War effort: the Master of Suspense fights the fascists and sounds a warning against complacency Another Hitchcock Wrong Man in a double chase as falsely-accused goes on run to find …

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