Home video and soundtrack After two decades, the Master’s entrée to widescreen, colour and 3D filmmaking Starting with this one, every American film has been issued altered on home video Audio, aspect …

Master of Suspense forced to shoot crime thriller in 3D but doesn’t phone it in Nonetheless, it was rarely seen in 3D for decades until 2012 digital restoration Countless spoofs, homages and …

Alfred Hitchcock’s carefully planned, three-dimensional thriller was a big hit… in 2D Iconic blonde Grace Kelly cements her star power playing a rich, unfaithful housewife Robert Cummings, star of Saboteur, narrowly returns …

Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Frederick Knott’s transatlantic hit play gets Alfred Hitchcock adaptation First of three classics with Oscar-winning blonde and future royal Grace Kelly Director meticulously planned its execution …

Master of Suspense mines his Catholic roots for angst-ridden film noir Conflicted: Montgomery Clift plays priest on the devil’s horns of a dilemma Censored: Clift’s original co-star was dropped for being an …

Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock’s Catholic dilemma makes gripping film noir Star Montgomery Clift’s priest plunged into an existential crisis Stark black and white photography highlights Quebec locations Priest in a …

Home video and remakes Two cuts, five transfers: preview and theatrical versions issued in ever-increasing quality Retrained: Highsmith’s charming psychopath wreaks more havoc in various remakes Retreads on radio, small and big …

Unsuspecting mixed-up killer plot: “Swap murders?” “Your wife. My father. Criss-cross.” Master of Suspense plunges headlong back into film noir territory with this dark thriller Rich and Stranger on a Train: fateful journey …

Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Back with a bang: Hitchcock back on top after string of box office flops Edge of your train seat: dark heart of this film noir still …

The Master of Suspense meets femme fatale Marlene Dietrich Hugely underrated murder mystery that wrongfoots its audience The director returns for another feature shot in his native London Note: this is part …

Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller confounded audiences then and now The film world is but a stage: theatrical intrigue behind the scenes Note: this is part of an …

Detailing every release of the pioneering Black actor’s five feature films Musician, jockey, prizefighter, stage and screen star, humanitarian, icon Talent and fearless activism renowned by Hollywood and political elite Life and …

Home video At least a handful of different transfers available, including new 4k restoration Hitchcocked: Shoddy bootlegs outnumber official releases, so choose carefully Was set to join six films director owned but …

One of the Master of Suspense’s least-seen American films Source novel author also penned the director’s twice-filmed Murder! Under Capricorn, underrated: Not the Technicolor yawn many make out It seemingly gets hate just …

Revisiting more contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock goes south – of the equator, to deliver mixed results Costume drama split the critics but all agreed on its technical excellence But …

Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock continued long-take experiment he started on Rope Ingrid Bergman is a woman on the edge – but not “driven by the demons of hell!” …

Production and home video Cocktail for a corpse: the guest who’s dead on time is a knotty problem Director’s cameo even more discreet continuation of that for Lifeboat One of the five …

February 2026 news: From Hitchcock expert Matthew Hardesty, Rope and James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) are screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, April 30–May 3, …

Revisiting more contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock presents a “real-time” play – and it’s a real killer! Film’s complex filming techniques pushed technological boundaries Underappreciated at the time, it’s now …

Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock’s macabre murder-thriller play in 80 minutes Simulated lack of cutting creates the illusion of real-time action Director discussed the film’s production in great detail …

Soundtrack First complete recorded history of Franz Waxman’s most underrated score The scarce original film recordings can only be heard in full on home video Waxman’s own concurrently adapted and conducted concert …