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Hitchcock Collection (Blu-ray disc)
Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Farley Granger, Robert Walker, …
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Triple bill of classic suspense thrillers from director Alfred
Hitchcock. In 'Dial M for Murder' (1954), adapted from the stage
play by Frederick Knott, former tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray
Milland) hatches a cunning plot to get rid of his socialite wife,
Margot (Grace Kelly), when he discovers that she has been
unfaithful. Wendice blackmails a corrupt former schoolmate into
murdering her but the fellow bungles the job and Margot, having
killed her would-be assailant in self-defence, then finds herself
under suspicion of premeditated murder. In 'Strangers On a Train'
(1951), based on Patricia Highsmith's novel, tennis star Guy Haines
(Farley Granger) meets Bruno Antony (Robert Walker) by chance in a
train carriage. After some idle chat in which it transpires that
each man has someone in their lives they would like to dispose of,
Bruno proposes that he kills Guy's wife, in return for Guy
murdering Bruno's father. Guy is appalled, but when his wife is
murdered he realises that Bruno is intent on carrying out the
'deal', whether Guy wants to or not. In 'North By Northwest' (1959)
advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is lunching in a
restaurant with his mother when he mistakenly answers a page for
one George Kaplan. He soon finds himself on the run across the
country, being pursued by enemies of the government who are
convinced that he is a secret agent. He finds a friend in Eve
Kendall (Eve Marie Saint), who helps conceal him during a perilous
train journey, but soon discovers she is not all that she seems...
Collection of four classic film dramas starring Elizabeth Taylor.
In 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' (1966), adapted from Edward
Albee's controversial stage play, George (Richard Burton) is a
foul-mouthed, drunken university professor married for two decades
to the equally foul-mouthed, drunken Martha (Taylor), whose father
is the president of George's college. When younger married couple
Nick (George Segal) and Honey (Sandy Dennis) are invited round for
a nightcap, they witness a marathon of bickering and verbal abuse.
The film won five Oscars, including Best Actress for Elizabeth
Taylor and Best Supporting Actress for Sandy Dennis. 'Cat On a Hot
Tin Roof' (1958), based on the Tennesse Williams play, follows the
events which transpire one long, hot Southern evening when the
family of plantation patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives) gathers to
celebrate his birthday. Both of the big man's sons are there for
the party, but only one of them - Gooper (Jack Carson) - is keen to
inherit the family fortune; the other, Brick (Paul Newman), a
former high school athlete who now drinks constantly and refuses to
sleep with his wife, Maggie (Taylor), couldn't care less.
Nevertheless, Maggie would like to see some of the money, believing
that it might offer some recompense for the coldness of her
marriage, and Big Mama (Judith Anderson), the boys' mother, has
always favoured Brick out of the two. As the night wears on, the
temperature rises, skeletons emerge from closets, and the family
tensions get closer and closer to breaking point. 'Giant' (1956)
follows Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson), a Texas cattle baron who takes
a non-Texan wife, Leslie (Taylor). The story traces two generations
of his family, alongside the life of disreputable ranch-hand Jett
Rink (James Dean), who strikes it rich on an oil well and falls in
love with Leslie. Director George Stevens won an Oscar for his
work, and the film garnered nine more nominations, including one
for James Dean, who was killed in a car crash soon after filming.
In 'Lassie Come Home' (1943) the Carraclough family are struggling
financially and have no choice but to sell their pet collie,
Lassie. Her new owner's granddaughter, Priscilla (Taylor), realises
how unhappy Lassie is away from her family and helps her to escape
so she can begin her long journey home.
In 1943 a group of mismatched Allied soldiers are sent to sabotage
two powerful Nazi guns situated on a Greek island. If their mission
fails, the guns will wipe out the 2,000 British soldiers who are
attempting to evacuate civilians further down the coast. The
mission is led by the dispassionate Captain Mallory (Gregory Peck),
whose clinical approach does not find favour with explosives expert
Corporal Miller (David Niven). Meanwhile, the group's Greek patriot
guide Andrea Stavros (Anthony Quinn) is nursing a grudge against
Mallory for an old injustice. A belated sequel, 'Force 10 from
Navarone', followed in 1978.
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