Alfred-Hitchcock Movie Reviews

Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, ranks right up there as one of my favorites of his movies. The film, uses one of the director's favorite themes, the main character wrongly accused and fighting to clear his name...Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is a New York Ad Executive, who soon finds himself framed for murder and on the run. Thornhill is being persued by a spy, Philip Vandamm (James Mason), and is captivated by a beautiful woman, Eve (Eva Marie Saint). The film contains two of the most memorable sequences ever seen on the big screen. The "crop duster chase" and the "climax on Mount Rushmore" have been copied but never truly duplicated. These scenes are benchmarks of the film, to be sure, but it is the unassuming acting of Grant, Saint, and Mason that make it work. The script by Ernest Lehman is filled with suspense and wit that makes this film True Hitchcock. Once again composer Benard Herrmann provides a momorable film score that puts "the icing on the cake".

The DVD has a retrospective documentary hosted by Saint, featuring rare footage and interviews with surviving cast and crew members. It also has an audio commentary with recollections from Lehman. This track can be rather "talkie" at times, but is great to have, just the same. Additional features include a music only track, remastered 5.1 sound, theatrical trailers, and a photo gallery. All in all, this is another great Hitchcock classic, on DVD. Highly Recommended as one of Hitchcock's best thrillers

North by Northwest is one of my all-time favorite movies. From start to finish, NxNW is a roller-coaster ride you'll want to watch again and again. It is thrilling, exciting and at times totally hilarious. Essentially, it's about Roger O. Thornhill, a confident and charming advertising executive, who is mistaken for a government agent and is consequently chased across the country. He is set on the road drunk, forced to hide in train compartments, crop-dusted (a classic sequence), trapped in auction, and finally chased across Mount Rushmore. Movies don't get any better than this.

As for the cast, it is excellent! Cary Grant gives a perfect performance as Roger O. Thornhill - and he is hilarious and charming, as ever! Eva Marie Saint is also very good, as the mysterious and glamorous girl Cary meets on the train. James Mason does a wonderful job playing the debonair but evil villian.

Directed by Hitchcock, this is a great comedy/thriller - in my opinion, it is Hitchcock's best movie! Additionally, it is a good idea to get the DVD, because the movie is astonishingly sharp and clear and there are plenty of special features. 100% worth your money! If you haven't seen this, by all means do, and if you have, get a DVD you can watch again and again!

Mr Hitchcock made this film ACCIDENTALLY. He was supposed to make a film version of The Wreck of the Mary Deare but his writer Ernest Lehman had a form of WRITER's BLOCK but, thankfully, had some ideas about a "chase movie". All is revealed in the excellent additional material and documentary on the making of the film narrated by Ms Saint. It may be one of those instances of how the artist (Mr Hitchcock) uses the system (Hollywood producers) to get his way, and run way over budget, and still bring home the bacon with a work of cinematic wonder. A must have DVD.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, ranks right up there as one of my favorites of his movies. The film, uses one of the director's favorite themes, the main character wrongly accused and fighting to clear his name...Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is a New York Ad Executive, who soon finds himself framed for murder and on the run. Thornhill is being persued by a spy, Philip Vandamm (James Mason), and is captivated by a beautiful woman, Eve (Eva Marie Saint). The film contains two of the most memorable sequences ever seen on the big screen. The "crop duster chase" and the "climax on Mount Rushmore" have been copied but never truly duplicated. These scenes are benchmarks of the film, to be sure, but it is the unassuming acting of Grant, Saint, and Mason that make it work. The script by Ernest Lehman is filled with suspense and wit that makes this film True Hitchcock. Once again composer Benard Herrmann provides a momorable film score that puts "the icing on the cake".

The DVD has a retrospective documentary hosted by Saint, featuring rare footage and interviews with surviving cast and crew members. It also has an audio commentary with recollections from Lehman. This track can be rather "talkie" at times, but is great to have, just the same. Additional features include a music only track, remastered 5.1 sound, theatrical trailers, and a photo gallery. All in all, this is another great Hitchcock classic, on DVD. Highly Recommended as one of Hitchcock's best thrillers

North by Northwest is one of my all-time favorite movies. From start to finish, NxNW is a roller-coaster ride you'll want to watch again and again. It is thrilling, exciting and at times totally hilarious. Essentially, it's about Roger O. Thornhill, a confident and charming advertising executive, who is mistaken for a government agent and is consequently chased across the country. He is set on the road drunk, forced to hide in train compartments, crop-dusted (a classic sequence), trapped in auction, and finally chased across Mount Rushmore. Movies don't get any better than this.

As for the cast, it is excellent! Cary Grant gives a perfect performance as Roger O. Thornhill - and he is hilarious and charming, as ever! Eva Marie Saint is also very good, as the mysterious and glamorous girl Cary meets on the train. James Mason does a wonderful job playing the debonair but evil villian.

Directed by Hitchcock, this is a great comedy/thriller - in my opinion, it is Hitchcock's best movie! Additionally, it is a good idea to get the DVD, because the movie is astonishingly sharp and clear and there are plenty of special features. 100% worth your money! If you haven't seen this, by all means do, and if you have, get a DVD you can watch again and again!

Mr Hitchcock made this film ACCIDENTALLY. He was supposed to make a film version of The Wreck of the Mary Deare but his writer Ernest Lehman had a form of WRITER's BLOCK but, thankfully, had some ideas about a "chase movie". All is revealed in the excellent additional material and documentary on the making of the film narrated by Ms Saint. It may be one of those instances of how the artist (Mr Hitchcock) uses the system (Hollywood producers) to get his way, and run way over budget, and still bring home the bacon with a work of cinematic wonder. A must have DVD.

What distinguishes a true thriller from its more modest counterparts is that in the former a sense of eerie menace permeates throughout. Director Alfred Hitchcock, in his debut as a Hollywood director, began the first in a long line of effective character-driven dramas in which the protagonist must struggle through a maze of conflicting levels of reported truths before hitting the one that rings true. With REBECCA, Hitchcock takes the novel by Daphne Du Maurier in which a second wife must contend with the suffocating presence of the late first wife. What stamps REBECCA as a timeless film that explores the degree to which tormented minds hold onto the past even at the cost of the loss of the present is the seamless melding of mood to plot. The dark and brooding English landscape ought to have been listed in the actors' credits, so thoroughly does it impact on the audience. The magnificent mansion of Manderly is situated on a moor that seems right out of WUTHERING HEIGHTS--no surprise there since Lawrence Olivier, who played Heathcliffe, now is Maxim de Winter, a soul who is as every bit as troubled and moody as the demented hero of Emily Bronte's novel. Maxim has recently lost his wife Rebecca to drowning, a loss that occurred before the first reel. Enter Joan Fontaine as the second Mrs. de Winter, a shy and insecure woman who is overwhelmed by the constant and heavy reminder that as far as the de Winters are concerned, she may have the name of de Winter, but not the grace to carry it. Maxim has a housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), who is exactly the menace-laden harpy that was to occupy so many of Hitchcock's future films. Mrs.Danvers is polite enough but her expressionless face and monotone voice nevertheless convey her stark disapproval of her master's new wife. Most of the first half is a character study of these three. It is almost as if Hitchcock is directing a cinematic race to see who will triumph first: Maxim, who will divest himself of the stultifying memories of his late first wife; the new Mrs. de Winter, who will settle comfortably into her new role as mistress of Manderly mansion; or the tightly-wound Mrs. Danvers, who seeks only to drive out her new mistress as a low creature unworthy to bear the name of De Winter.

Part of the joy of immersing oneself into the lives of the de Winters is to see how the supporting cast enriches the film with surprisingly effective stints that resonate even when they are off screen. George Sanders hits just the right caddish note as the former lover of the first Mrs. De Winter. Sanders has made a career of playing the erudite but roguish gentlemen who is a gentleman in verbal repartee only. Veteran character actor C. Aubrey Smith is policeman Colonel Julyan, who seeks to solve the unexplained demise of Rebecca De Winter. His presence lends the film the unmistakable aura of the dogged British cop who will follow any lead, regardless of where it may lead. It would be too simple to say that REBECCA belongs to the titular lead, Sir Lawrence Olivier, who truly is stunning as a wealthy but moody lord who has to overcome his own inner demons before he can relate to his new wife. What marks REBECCA as the masterpiece that it is is the unfolding at just the right moments of plot advances that always seem to fit seamlessly into the fabric. REBECCA was a justly honored winner for Best Picture of 1940.

This is one of the best mystery/romance films I've ever seen, and the fact that Hitchcock directed it adds to the overwhelming sense of fear and horror that builds inside the character of Mrs. de Winter, winningly portrayed by Joan Fontaine, who never looked lovelier than she does here as a simple nameless woman suddenly swept into another world plagued by the spirit of a dead woman. Laurence Olivier never looked more handsome or dashing as the tortured husband trying to escape the clutches of his dead first wife. Dame Judith Anderson is wickedly frightful as the sinister housekeeper bent on wrecking the life of Fontaine's character, making her one of the most hated and brutal villains in literature and film history. She's so cruel you love to hate her. Don't miss her deceptive plot to humiliate the new Mrs. de Winter at a gala costume ball. The sets and photography (winner of an Oscar) add to the tension and terror that builds with each passing scene as we are pulled deeper into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter. The music is also enchanting and chilling when necessary, particularly during that opening dream sequence. Hitchcock couldn't have done it better, neither could anybody else. It is a must for the Hitchcock buff and for lovers of suspense mysteries and hair-raising occurences. It sure deserved the Oscar it won for Best Picture of 1940. No other mystery/romantic/suspence picture can equal the fear and terror this film so genuinely evokes in the viewer. You've got to get your hands on it!!!

Rebecca is my all tiem favorite movie of all time. Thats sayying a lot because truly i have seen almost all of alfred Hitchcock's movies and I love this one everybody should watch it at least once.

I'm a big hitchcock fan and i rented this movie the other night. I'd a heard a lot of good things about it. I don't know why it's considered a masterpiece! That movie was boring, there was no plot, nothing happens except fake 1940's kissing between grant and Bergman, there's not suspense, no surprises. It was nominated for best original screen play at the oscars and i really wonder who was the competition cause the screenplay sucks.

The star is for Cary Grant that's it. He played real well in it but really don't waste your time watching that movie, you'd be better off staring at a picture of cary grant for 90 minutes.

I've been a Criterion fan for many years (I still have my Cat People laserdisc). However there are a couple of odd things about this release.
1) Still frames show a reduced resolution. I've noticed this curious effect on several Criterion titles. Is this a DVD authoring problem?
2) The title sequence on this film is overzealously window-boxed. The image is reduced by at least 40%! WHY? Then the image zooms to fill the screen. If the title sequence needed to be window-boxed shouldn't the entire film require this? Strange.
It's about time that Criterion felt the pressure to use competitive pricing. Years ago they were the "only game in town" when it came to true special editions. Such editions have now become almost common place.
Still a great film. This disc almost rounds out my Hitchcock collection.

In the days following the end of WWII, an American agent (Cary Grant) recruits a socialite (Ingrid Bergman) with a reputation as a party girl and a father recently convicted as a Nazi spy. She is to use her connections to the Nazi underground to seduce one of the leaders (Claude Rains) and obtain some vital information. Matters are complicated when the girl and the agent fall for each other yet recognize the necessity of completing their mission.

This is a fine film with many suspenseful scenes, such as the party where it becomes vital that the champagne last all night. The heart of the film is the romance and this is also its weakness. There were so many scenes of simple misunderstandings and deliberately hurtful actions meant to disguise their true feelings that the characters began to seem rather childish. Although this may have been in character for Bergman's spoiled socialite, I would have expected more from Grant's seasoned professional spy. Nevertheless, Hitchcock's direction is innovative and the cast is excellent.

I'm a big hitchcock fan and i rented this movie the other night. I'd a heard a lot of good things about it. I don't know why it's considered a masterpiece! That movie was boring, there was no plot, nothing happens except fake 1940's kissing between grant and Bergman, there's not suspense, no surprises. It was nominated for best original screen play at the oscars and i really wonder who was the competition cause the screenplay sucks.

The star is for Cary Grant that's it. He played real well in it but really don't waste your time watching that movie, you'd be better off staring at a picture of cary grant for 90 minutes.

This review refers to the Criterion Collection DVD of Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious".....

The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, gives us another edge of your seat thriller. He combines, mystery,romance, and the evil's of Nazism in this chilling story.It takes place shortly after WWII. Alicia(Ingrid Bergman) is a woman with a past. Her father has just been convicted of spying. American agent Devlin(Cary Grant), enlists Alicia to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.After her father's conviction, Alicia can prove her own patriotism by cooperating in this manner. She finds herself right in the thick of things and her own life in danger after she goes as far as to marry Alex(Claude Rains), one of the very powerful, rich and dangerous ring leaders of the group. Alex is on to her and tries to methodically get rid of his beautiful wife.Can the handsome "Dev" rescue the woman he has come to love so much before tragedy strikes.?

You'll delight to find Hitch's trademarks all through the film. The camera angles are definitive,the trademark staircase scene, the passion between Grant and Bergman electrifying,Claude Rains is terrifying, and the story a rollercoaster of suspense filled moments. There isn't a more perfect film I can think of.

Looking for Hitch: A little over an hour in you can have a little drink with him.(Not too much though, the Champagne needs to last the night at this party).

I am always happy to report on a great restoration of a classic film. This one made in 1946 is a beautiful, crisp, clean transfer to this DVD. The Black and White images are sharp and you will notice the attention that was made to every detail during the filming. The tears streaming down Ingrid's face look like drops of crystal. It's amazing. The sound is in Dolby Dig Mono and is very good. There are lots of "extras" on this edition. Among them is some great commentary from Marian Keane(she is a film scholar and talks alot about camera angles and other pertinent facts to the film) which you can listen to during the film if you choose, You can isolate that wonderful soundtrack,there is correspondce between Selznick and others connected to the film,TWO booklets, one about Hitch's Notorious and other films and another listing Criterions releases. And there is much more(see tech info for complete list).There are also subtitles which may be helpful to hearing impaired viewers.

You do get your money's worth on this one. However, if you are not as interested in the extras and are just looking to view this fabulous classic, there is another edition by Anchor Bay which costs much less. Although I have not viewed this particular Anchor Bay Release I do have many others by them and have always been more than happy with their treatment of the transfer.

Kick back with Cary, Ingrid and Hitch for a day of suspense and romance..........Laurie

This may be the most romantic noir film of all time. Hitchcock used the same stark and opulent black and white cinematography that Preminger used in "Laura" to give this elegant love story set in the world of secret agents a lusciously romantic glow. Who better to bring this across than Cary Grant and the young and beautiful Ingrid Bergman?

From Miami to Brazil American Secret Agent Delvin (Grant) must use Alicia (Bergman) to get close to suspected Nazi Alexander Sebastion (Claude Rains) and find out what is being planned by he and his friends. Her father was convicted of spying for the Germans and playgirl Bergman has been living fast and hard trying to forget until she falls hard for Grant.

She may just be trusted enough to get in and find out, the only problem being Delvin is in love with the reformed Alicia as well but can't tell her. Sebastion is in love with Alicia also and all she wants is for Delvin to tell her not to get close to Sebastion. He can't, of course, and the romantic tension builds side by side with the suspense to create a unique atmosphere.

The romance gets equal billing until Alicia and Delvin discover something in the wine cellar besides wine, and Sebastion realizes she is a spy. Since Delvin has been reassigned to Spain, he may not be in time to save her. The famous staircase scene is just one highlight in a film filled with memorable images.

Hitchcock took an alluring Bergman and a handsome Grant, a tightly writtn and suspenseful script, and made one of the most exciting and lusciously beautiful films in screen history. Ingrid Bergman is lovely and vulnerable and Cary Grant has his hands full keeping his feelings to himself so he can do his job. Don't miss this one. It's one of Hitchcock's best.

There's no denying that Strangers On a Train was one of Hitchcock's best movies, but this translation left a bit to be desired. The encoding on the DVD was obviously low-quality as there was a lot of artifacting and blurring, especially in scenes that contained a lot of motion. The DVD shipped in a blank case, leaving me to find album artwork myself - the end result looking like a cheap pirated DVD sold on the streets of Singapore. The sound quality was mediocre. I would love to see this great movie remastered and repackaged with more extras.

Excellent suspense movie about innocent-looking tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger), involved in a murder against his own will, by an eccentric, over-the-top character played masterfully by great american actor (by then, Jennifer Jones' ex-husband) Robert Walker.

Hitchcock builds the film into a great final climax, holding your complete attention from the very start of the story, at the train station.

Good acting by the leading couple, Farley Granger and Ruth Roman (playing his sweetheart and bride-to-be, after the divorce from his obnoxious wife). Excellent performances by the aforementioned Walker as Bruno Antony, Patricia Hitchcok (as Roman's sister, who has a liking for criminal stories), Kasey Rogers (as Granger's wife) and Marion Lorne (as Bruno Antony's mother).

The fact that the DVD contains the original US and UK versions, the latter two minutes longer, is a must. Especially noticing the trimming that underwent the initial scenes between Walker and Granger in the american version, and the final "happy ending" scene added for the same version.

Fans of '60s TV series "Bewitched", will have a field day watching "Aunt Clara" (Marion Lorne) as the over-indulging mother of spoiled and egotistical Bruno Antony and "Louise Tate" (Kasey Rogers, billed as Laura Elliott) who plays over-sexed and amoral Miriam, Guy Haines' wife.

Farley Granger appeared in only two Hitchcock films. He was the nerve racked killer in Rope who ended up not being able to handle the reality of his crime and gave up in the end, and he is the ill-fated tennis star who happens upon a total stranger during a train ride in this film, Strangers on a Train. Too bad. Granger is talented in this role, evoking sympathy from the audience even when he was guilty as sin in Rope. In this movie, it's hard to really blame him for the events that transpire.

Two men meet and strike up a conversation based on Bruno's (Robert Walker in a chilling performance) ability to recognize Guy Haines (Granger) from the tennis court. During the conversation, it is discovered that Bruno hates his father and wants him dead, and that Guy has a wife who is causing trouble for him. Guy wants to marry the daughter of a senator, but needs his current wife out of the picture.

Bruno has the answer. We swap murders, and then there is no motive. Guy laughs it off, but he stops laughing quick when Bruno actually kills Guy's wife and expects him to murder his father in return. By the way, the murder of the wife is some of Hitch's best camera work ever, as he shows the choking in the reflection of the woman's eyeglasses.

Guy has no credible alibi, so he is suspect number one. Bruno keeps on him the whole time, threatening to frame him (Bruno has Guy's lighter that he can plant at the scene), so it becomes a race for Guy to prove his innocence. The scene on the merry go round is a classic, even if a bit unrealistic.

The characters are great, the story strong and the direction superb. You simply can't go wrong with this one. The great suspense films of today owe a debt of gratitude to Strangers on a Train.

There's no denying that Strangers On a Train was one of Hitchcock's best movies, but this translation left a bit to be desired. The encoding on the DVD was obviously low-quality as there was a lot of artifacting and blurring, especially in scenes that contained a lot of motion. The DVD shipped in a blank case, leaving me to find album artwork myself - the end result looking like a cheap pirated DVD sold on the streets of Singapore. The sound quality was mediocre. I would love to see this great movie remastered and repackaged with more extras.

Excellent suspense movie about innocent-looking tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger), involved in a murder against his own will, by an eccentric, over-the-top character played masterfully by great american actor (by then, Jennifer Jones' ex-husband) Robert Walker.

Hitchcock builds the film into a great final climax, holding your complete attention from the very start of the story, at the train station.

Good acting by the leading couple, Farley Granger and Ruth Roman (playing his sweetheart and bride-to-be, after the divorce from his obnoxious wife). Excellent performances by the aforementioned Walker as Bruno Antony, Patricia Hitchcok (as Roman's sister, who has a liking for criminal stories), Kasey Rogers (as Granger's wife) and Marion Lorne (as Bruno Antony's mother).

The fact that the DVD contains the original US and UK versions, the latter two minutes longer, is a must. Especially noticing the trimming that underwent the initial scenes between Walker and Granger in the american version, and the final "happy ending" scene added for the same version.

Fans of '60s TV series "Bewitched", will have a field day watching "Aunt Clara" (Marion Lorne) as the over-indulging mother of spoiled and egotistical Bruno Antony and "Louise Tate" (Kasey Rogers, billed as Laura Elliott) who plays over-sexed and amoral Miriam, Guy Haines' wife.

Farley Granger appeared in only two Hitchcock films. He was the nerve racked killer in Rope who ended up not being able to handle the reality of his crime and gave up in the end, and he is the ill-fated tennis star who happens upon a total stranger during a train ride in this film, Strangers on a Train. Too bad. Granger is talented in this role, evoking sympathy from the audience even when he was guilty as sin in Rope. In this movie, it's hard to really blame him for the events that transpire.

Two men meet and strike up a conversation based on Bruno's (Robert Walker in a chilling performance) ability to recognize Guy Haines (Granger) from the tennis court. During the conversation, it is discovered that Bruno hates his father and wants him dead, and that Guy has a wife who is causing trouble for him. Guy wants to marry the daughter of a senator, but needs his current wife out of the picture.

Bruno has the answer. We swap murders, and then there is no motive. Guy laughs it off, but he stops laughing quick when Bruno actually kills Guy's wife and expects him to murder his father in return. By the way, the murder of the wife is some of Hitch's best camera work ever, as he shows the choking in the reflection of the woman's eyeglasses.

Guy has no credible alibi, so he is suspect number one. Bruno keeps on him the whole time, threatening to frame him (Bruno has Guy's lighter that he can plant at the scene), so it becomes a race for Guy to prove his innocence. The scene on the merry go round is a classic, even if a bit unrealistic.

The characters are great, the story strong and the direction superb. You simply can't go wrong with this one. The great suspense films of today owe a debt of gratitude to Strangers on a Train.

There's no denying that Strangers On a Train was one of Hitchcock's best movies, but this translation left a bit to be desired. The encoding on the DVD was obviously low-quality as there was a lot of artifacting and blurring, especially in scenes that contained a lot of motion. The DVD shipped in a blank case, leaving me to find album artwork myself - the end result looking like a cheap pirated DVD sold on the streets of Singapore. The sound quality was mediocre. I would love to see this great movie remastered and repackaged with more extras.

Excellent suspense movie about innocent-looking tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger), involved in a murder against his own will, by an eccentric, over-the-top character played masterfully by great american actor (by then, Jennifer Jones' ex-husband) Robert Walker.

Hitchcock builds the film into a great final climax, holding your complete attention from the very start of the story, at the train station.

Good acting by the leading couple, Farley Granger and Ruth Roman (playing his sweetheart and bride-to-be, after the divorce from his obnoxious wife). Excellent performances by the aforementioned Walker as Bruno Antony, Patricia Hitchcok (as Roman's sister, who has a liking for criminal stories), Kasey Rogers (as Granger's wife) and Marion Lorne (as Bruno Antony's mother).

The fact that the DVD contains the original US and UK versions, the latter two minutes longer, is a must. Especially noticing the trimming that underwent the initial scenes between Walker and Granger in the american version, and the final "happy ending" scene added for the same version.

Fans of '60s TV series "Bewitched", will have a field day watching "Aunt Clara" (Marion Lorne) as the over-indulging mother of spoiled and egotistical Bruno Antony and "Louise Tate" (Kasey Rogers, billed as Laura Elliott) who plays over-sexed and amoral Miriam, Guy Haines' wife.

Farley Granger appeared in only two Hitchcock films. He was the nerve racked killer in Rope who ended up not being able to handle the reality of his crime and gave up in the end, and he is the ill-fated tennis star who happens upon a total stranger during a train ride in this film, Strangers on a Train. Too bad. Granger is talented in this role, evoking sympathy from the audience even when he was guilty as sin in Rope. In this movie, it's hard to really blame him for the events that transpire.

Two men meet and strike up a conversation based on Bruno's (Robert Walker in a chilling performance) ability to recognize Guy Haines (Granger) from the tennis court. During the conversation, it is discovered that Bruno hates his father and wants him dead, and that Guy has a wife who is causing trouble for him. Guy wants to marry the daughter of a senator, but needs his current wife out of the picture.

Bruno has the answer. We swap murders, and then there is no motive. Guy laughs it off, but he stops laughing quick when Bruno actually kills Guy's wife and expects him to murder his father in return. By the way, the murder of the wife is some of Hitch's best camera work ever, as he shows the choking in the reflection of the woman's eyeglasses.

Guy has no credible alibi, so he is suspect number one. Bruno keeps on him the whole time, threatening to frame him (Bruno has Guy's lighter that he can plant at the scene), so it becomes a race for Guy to prove his innocence. The scene on the merry go round is a classic, even if a bit unrealistic.

The characters are great, the story strong and the direction superb. You simply can't go wrong with this one. The great suspense films of today owe a debt of gratitude to Strangers on a Train.

Perhaps it's Cary Grant's robot like charm. Or perhaps it's Grace Kelly's utter lack of it, but somehow these two never looked like their romantic radars were on the same wavelength. Grace Kelly is beautiful in a classic, albeit unexotic way, but her acting is nonexistent, as is the chemistry she generates with Cary Grant.

As for Mr. Grant, Grace Kelly seems to be the last thing he is interested in. It's a wonder things work out he way they do. Cary Grant banked on his remarkable charming screen presence, while Grace Kelly serves as window dressing with no personality. It would have been nicer had she lost that fak-o English accent. It's really too much.

Kudos to the beautiful setting.

Delightful little Hitchcock movie and one of Grace Kellys last prior to her marriage.Filmed entirely on location in Monaco.Also starring Cary Grant in one of his more athletically challenging roles. Great scene at the start where John Robie escorts a supposedly frigid Frances Stevens to her hotel room and she thanks him with a long open mouthed kiss. Jessie Royce Landis gets all the good lines as Kellys wealthy but down-to-earth alcoholic mama."...do you mind if I have you investigated Mr Robie,youre just too good to be true..." Besides all the quick dialogue theres some great photography of the riviera in the mid 1950's before the serious tourist dollars moved in.A shady place for shady characters Somerset Maugham used to say and it was here also that Grace Kelly was introduced to the young Prince Rainier who was smitten...the rest is history. Not one of the masters best efforts but a fun movie all the same.

What a fantastic movie! Very suspenseful and beginning-to-end thrill and excitement throughout. Stars 2 of the world's most famous actors for the silver screen; the legendary Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. I honestly think this is Princess Grace's best film, and never was she more beautiful and stunning. They both should have won Oscar's for this movie. Now, this film met all of Hitchcock's usual standards, and, in my opinion, was just as good as the other 1959 Masterpiece, North By Northwest, which you will absolutely LOVE if you loved this one. Trust me, this movie is well worth buying on tape; however, it does air on T.V. often, so catch it then. I Love Grace Kelly!

Perhaps it's Cary Grant's robot like charm. Or perhaps it's Grace Kelly's utter lack of it, but somehow these two never looked like their romantic radars were on the same wavelength. Grace Kelly is beautiful in a classic, albeit unexotic way, but her acting is nonexistent, as is the chemistry she generates with Cary Grant.

As for Mr. Grant, Grace Kelly seems to be the last thing he is interested in. It's a wonder things work out he way they do. Cary Grant banked on his remarkable charming screen presence, while Grace Kelly serves as window dressing with no personality. It would have been nicer had she lost that fak-o English accent. It's really too much.

Kudos to the beautiful setting.

Delightful little Hitchcock movie and one of Grace Kellys last prior to her marriage.Filmed entirely on location in Monaco.Also starring Cary Grant in one of his more athletically challenging roles. Great scene at the start where John Robie escorts a supposedly frigid Frances Stevens to her hotel room and she thanks him with a long open mouthed kiss. Jessie Royce Landis gets all the good lines as Kellys wealthy but down-to-earth alcoholic mama."...do you mind if I have you investigated Mr Robie,youre just too good to be true..." Besides all the quick dialogue theres some great photography of the riviera in the mid 1950's before the serious tourist dollars moved in.A shady place for shady characters Somerset Maugham used to say and it was here also that Grace Kelly was introduced to the young Prince Rainier who was smitten...the rest is history. Not one of the masters best efforts but a fun movie all the same.

What a fantastic movie! Very suspenseful and beginning-to-end thrill and excitement throughout. Stars 2 of the world's most famous actors for the silver screen; the legendary Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. I honestly think this is Princess Grace's best film, and never was she more beautiful and stunning. They both should have won Oscar's for this movie. Now, this film met all of Hitchcock's usual standards, and, in my opinion, was just as good as the other 1959 Masterpiece, North By Northwest, which you will absolutely LOVE if you loved this one. Trust me, this movie is well worth buying on tape; however, it does air on T.V. often, so catch it then. I Love Grace Kelly!