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6-movie collection of Hitchcock classics features.
North By Northwest:
North By Northwest is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and Indiana Jones films), the film is a cross-country roller-coaster ride with Alfred Hitchcock at the helm. The film is duly famous for several classic and indelible scenes, including the desert biplane encounter and the Mt. Rushmore climax.
The Wrong Man:
Hitchcock movie starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny and his family.
Dial M For Murder:
Classic Hitchcock movie starring Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn events to his advantage.
I Confess:
Hitchcock movie starring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan he cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession.
Strangers On A Train:
Based on the Patricia Highsmith novel, Strangers On A Train quickly became one of Alfred Hitchcock's most successful thrillers and remains one of his most popular films. En route from Washington, D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guy's life. Bruno is eager to kill his father and knows Guy wants to marry a senator's daughter (Ruth Roman) but cannot get a divorce from his wife, Miriam (Laura Elliot). So Bruno suggests the men swap murders, which would leave no traceable clues or possible motives. Though Guy refuses, it will not be so easy to rid himself of the psychopathic Bruno. The film is tightly paced and disturbing from beginning to end, an effect heightened by Hitchcock's inventive camera work, including a terrifying sequence shot through a pair of eyeglasses that have been knocked to the ground.
Stage Fright:
Hitchcock movie starring Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich. Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the detective in charge of the case, she starts to fall in love.
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Touch of Evil (Blu-ray disc)
Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia, …
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R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Classic late period film noir directed by virtuoso Orson Welles. A
sweaty thriller set in a hellish border town, it stars Charlton
Heston as Mike Vargas, the self-righteous Mexican cop who goes up
against Welles' monumental Hank Quinlan, an old-time detective who
fabricates evidence in order to mount a case based on gut-instinct.
Famous for its incredibly choreographed seven-minute opening shot,
Henry Mancini's powerful score, and the faded magnificence of the
Quinlan character, it is often considered to be Welles' second
masterpiece.
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Audrey Hepburn Collection (DVD)
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert, Harcourt Williams, Hartley Power, …
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R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
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Box-set collection of five of Audrey Hepburn's most famous films.
In her Hollywood debut 'Roman Holiday' (1953), Hepburn won an
Academy Award as Princess Anne, the bored royal who absconds from
her duties and meets up with Gregory Peck's American ex-pat
journalist. Billy Wilder directs her in 'Sabrina Fair' (1954) as
the shy daughter of a wealthy family's chauffeur, who returns from
two years in Paris as a sophisticated young woman. The musical
romantic comedy 'Funny Face' (1957) sees Hepburn playing alongside
Fred Astaire to the music of Gershwin as a young bookshop clerk
transformed into an international fashion model. Adapted from the
Truman Capote novella, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1961) sees Hepburn
in her archetypal role as dizzy call-girl Holly Golightly, trying
not to fall for George Peppard's failed writer in New York. In
'Paris When it Sizzles' (1964), Hepburn plays a secretary hired to
help alcoholic writer Richard Benson (William Holden) finish up a
screenplay for a Hollywood producer, with only two days until the
end of his deadline.
Professor Rath (Emil Jannings) discovers some postcards of a
night-club singer being passed among his class. He goes to the club
in the hope of catching some of his students but instead becomes
entranced by the vampish beauty of the singer Lola-Lola (Marlene
Dietrich). Josef von Sternberg's adaptation of Heinrich Mann's
novel launched Dietrich onto the international scene, and includes
her famous rendition of 'Falling in Love Again'.
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