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 …
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Orson Welles
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Production and home video Director’s cameo even more discreet continuation of that for Lifeboat One of the five “missing Hitchcocks” hardly seen for almost two decades 1985–2025: Forty years and …
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Soundtrack and remakes Realistic: Score is Hitch’s canny exercise in minimalism Back at sea: Film’s star returns for the only radio version Sci-fi: Three quasi-remakes transpose story to outer space …
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Soundtrack and remakes Intact: first Hitchcock not to suffer any censor or distributor cuts Tiomkin score makes ironic use of then popular Merry Widow Waltz Story spawned many radio adaptations and screen quasi-remakes …
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1935–1939 He marches triumphant through the 1930s, topping it with cinema’s biggest prize Iconic: Stars in Alfred Hitchcock’s best film and a blueprint for his later success Followed with dual …
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1932–1934 Shooting star: By his late 20s, Robert Donat had assumed leading man status Sadly, his first two films are lost and the third is a shadow of its former …
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Art imitates life in the Master’s timeless tale of wartime espionage It plunges ordinary folk into exceptional, dangerous circumstances Polar opposites learn to unite and fight against a common enemy …
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Class meets crass and both cruelly trample on innocent dreams One of the Master’s best British films but it’s often unfairly overlooked Class system injustice is laid bare in a …
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The spin-offs Famous veteran filmmaker was first interviewed in 1962 by young French critic cum-director Truffaut worshipped the Master and believed the world was not giving his genius due credit …