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  • Unsung Hero: Joan Harrison, Hitchcock’s Most Frequent Collaborator

    by Brent Reid 30th July 2021

    Hitchcock/Harrison: sharing hundreds of screen credits, now she’s stepping out from the Master’s shadows Screenwriter on a handful of Hitchcock classics became trailblazing film executive in her own right Universal’s…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The British Years in Print, Part 2

    by Brent Reid 28th November 2019

    Best of the Rest Numerous Hitchcock books make mention of his very successful pre-Hollywood phase But most only do so cursorily; few have a sizeable amount of well-informed content However,…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Champagne (1928)

    by Brent Reid 6th November 2018

    The Master’s second comedy features Betty Balfour, Britain’s biggest star of the 1920s But even her effervescent charms can’t keep it from occasionally falling a little flat Its mostly hit but a little…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)

    by Brent Reid 6th November 2018

    The Master’s uproarious first comedy is stuffed with oddballs and eccentrics It’s full of good old-fashioned English humour, from gentle to earthy and bawdy With slapstick and even subtle smut,…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Ring (1927)

    by Brent Reid 27th October 2018

    The Master of Suspense turns in a technical tour de force in this prize winning tale Danish actor Carl Brisson, star of two Hitchcocks, suffers a hit in love in both…

  • Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Easy Virtue (1927)

    by Brent Reid 7th October 2018

    His most obscure and maligned film, only surviving in severely compromised condition Only a few badly worn 16mm prints exist, all missing over 25% of their original footage As one…

  • Alfred Hitchcock: Dial © for Copyright, Part 3

    by Nick Cooper 7th September 2018

    British Films For the first time: the complete copyright history of the Master of Suspense’s British films They’ve been fully protected in the UK and many other countries since they…

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