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  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Elstree Calling (1930)

    by Brent Reid 22nd March 2019

    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 …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Easy Virtue (1927)

    by Brent Reid 7th October 2018

      His most obscure and maligned film, only surviving in severely compromised condition Only a few badly worn 16mm prints exist, all missing over 25% of their original footage As …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Downhill (1927), Part 2

    by Brent Reid 7th October 2018

    Restoration, home video and more Ivor Novello releases Downhill restored: there are two versions, four transfer speeds and five scores! Spoilt for choice: it’s very well represented on most official …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Downhill (1927)

    by Brent Reid 7th October 2018

    Not a murder in sight, but it’s still one of the darkest films in the Master’s canon The Wrong Boy: star of The Lodger returns to suffer again as the …

  • 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 …

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

    by Brent Reid 23rd September 2018

    Info and tickets, Facebook event, intro, interview, artwork News: A brand new stage adaptation (archived) based on Hitchcock film and its source novel is playing at the Old Red Lion Theatre, …

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors Guide: Earliest British Films

    by Brent Reid 15th September 2018

    The Master’s Apprenticeship: detailing the preservation status of Hitch’s earliest works Entered the fledgling film industry in the early 1920s as a lowly freelance title card designer Quickly worked his …

  • London’s Hollywood: The Gainsborough Film Studio’s Silent Years

    by Gary Chapman 9th April 2015

    New definitive study of seminal British film studio’s illustrious beginnings Film historian Gary Chapman delivers a fascinating glimpse of its history Originally called the Islington studio, its films featured a …

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