Now Showing: July, 1960

 

 

Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: July, 1956

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of It Came from Beneath the Sea at 3B Theater.

Poster campaign for It Came from Beneath the Sea at the Archive.

For the Love of Hitchcock :: Until Next Time, I Bid You All a Good Ev-ah-ning…

 

 

 
Alas, that will wrap it up for my contributions to the For the Love of Film Blogathon, folks, but it’s still not too late for you to make a contribution.
 

 
Again, there’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above and give what you can. Thanks. And if you came to this Hitchcock Hootenanny late, you can click here to link to all the posted ads for the duration. Also, again, a big shout out to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing out such a wide, all-inclusive net for journeyman film fanatics like myself for contributions. T’was a blast as always folks, looking forward to doing it again next year.
 

 

For the Love of Hitchcock :: The Most Intense Suspense, Excitement, Emotion Ever Generated by a Motion Picture (July, 1958)

 

“He did nothing. The law has little to say on things left undone.”

 

 

 

 

 

 
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
 

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Vertigo (1958) Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions :: Paramount Pictures / P: Alfred Hitchcock / AP: Herbert Coleman / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau (novel), Thomas Narcejac (novel) / C: Robert Burks / E: George Tomasini / M: Bernard Herrmann / S: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Lee Patrick

For the Love of Hitchcock :: At the Mercy of the Sea — And Each Other! (April, 1944)

 

“Dying together’s even more personal than living together.”

 

 

 

 

And in the great Hitchcock tradition, a cameo appearance by my thumb.

 

 
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
 

  I’m participating. Are you?

 
Life Boat (1944) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / EP: Darryl F. Zanuck, William Goetz / P: Alfred Hitchcock, Kenneth Macgowan / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling / C: Glen MacWilliams, Arthur C. Miller / E: Dorothy Spencer / M: Hugo Friedhofer / S: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, William Bendix, Canada Lee, Henry Hull, Hume Cronyn, Heather Angel,

For the Love of Hitchcock :: Loving in Secret … While Ruin Lies in Wait! (November, 1946)

 

“This is a very strange love affair.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
 

I’m participating. Are you?

 
Notorious (1946) Vanguard Films :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: Alfred Hitchcock / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Ben Hecht, John Taintor Foote (story) / C: Ted Tetzlaff / E: Theron Warth / M: Roy Webb / S: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Fay Baker

For the Love of Hitchcock :: A New and Altogether Different Screen Excitement! (July, 1960)

 

“It’s not like my mother is a maniac or a raving thing.”

“She just goes a little mad sometimes.”

“We all go a little mad sometimes.”

“Haven’t you?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of Psycho at the Brewery.

 
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
 

I’m participating. Are you?

 
Psycho (1960) Shamley Productions :: Paramount Pictures / P: Alfred Hitchcock / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch (novel) / C: John L. Russell / E: George Tomasini / M: Bernard Hermann / S: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam

For the Love of Hitchcock :: As the Old Saying Goes, Give a Man Enough Rope… (December, 1948)

 

“Nobody commits a murder just for
the experiment of committing it.”

“Nobody except us.”

 

 

 

 

 

This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.

 

  I’m participating. Are you?

 
Rope (1948) Transatlantic Pictures :: Warner Bros. / P: Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Arthur Laurents, Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton (play) / C: William V. Skall, Joseph A. Valentine / E: William H. Ziegler / M: David Buttolph / S: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evanson

For the Love of Hitchcock :: Cheat? Embezzler? Faithless? Or Worse?! (January, 1942)

 

“If you’re going to kill someone, do it simply”

 

 

 

 

 

 
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
 

 I’m participating. Are you?

 
Suspicion (1941) RKO Radio Pictures / P: Harry E. Edington / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville, Anthony Berkeley (novel) / C: Harry Stradling / E: William Hamilton / M: Franz Waxman / S: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty

For the Love of Hitchcock :: Nothing Will Prepare You for Such Sheer Stabbing SHOCK! (April, 1963)

 

“Why are they doing this?”

“They said when you got here the whole thing started.”

“Who are you? What are you?!”

“Where did you come from!?!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of The Birds at the Brewery.

 
This post is part of the For the Love of Film Blogathon, a new age telethon to raise funds for The National Film Preservation Foundation to help bring The White Shadow (a/k/a White Shadows), an early silent film that a certain master of suspense did just about everything for except direct — assistant director, screenwriter, film editor, production designer, art director, and set decorator, to the streaming masses and help defray the costs of adding a new musical soundtrack.
 

 
There’s no donation too small, folks. So please, click on the link above, wherever you see it this week and give what you can. Thanks. For more information, check out the group’s Facebook page. Big thanks, as always, to Ferdy on Film, The Self-Styled Siren and This Island Rod for throwing such a wide net for contributors. Until tomorrow, then, I bid you all a good ev-ah-ning.
 

I’m participating. Are you?

 

The Birds (1963) Universal Pictures / P: Alfred Hitchcock / D: Alfred Hitchcock / W: Evan Hunter, Daphne Du Maurier (story) / C: Robert Burks / E: George Tomasini / M: Bernard Hermann / S: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies