North by Northwest (1959)
Although many people associate the famous scene of Cary Grant (To Catch a Thief, Suspicion) being chased out in farm country by a crop-duster with the movie as a whole, that stretch of film alone...
1950s / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 16, 2008 · Last modified August 23, 2018
Although many people associate the famous scene of Cary Grant (To Catch a Thief, Suspicion) being chased out in farm country by a crop-duster with the movie as a whole, that stretch of film alone...
To Catch a Thief is Alfred Hitchcock’s second of four collaborations with screenwriter John Michael Hayes (Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much were the others), bringing light mystery elements and...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 17, 2003 · Last modified April 12, 2019
Suspicion is classic early Hollywood Hitchcock, nicely conceived and solidly performed, but there’s a major flaw that keeps this from becoming one of his greats. No ending would be satisfying. Loosely based on Francis Iles’...
1960s / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 1998 · Last modified February 3, 2019
A soon-to-be divorced woman (Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s) needn’t worry any longer about her failing marriage when it is discovered her husband died after a tumble off of a moving train. She soon discovers her husband...
by Vincent Leo · Published August 22, 1997 · Last modified January 22, 2019
That Touch of Mink casts Doris Day (Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, The Man Who Knew Too Much) as an old fashioned small town woman gets swept off her feet by a rich playboy (Grant, North by...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.