Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight opens in Victorian-era London, with the death of acclaimed opera diva Alice Alquist, who had been strangled by someone trying to heist her jewels, and who still looms at large. The scene shifts to...
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! is a $25 million budgeted (big money, for its time) collaborative effort, years in the making, between the U.S. and Japan film-making industries to craft an accurate dramatic telling of the events...
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Director Alfred Hitchcock (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) may have wanted the then unavailable Joan Fontaine for the role, but Teresa Wright (Somewhere in Time, The Rainmaker) does just fine as young Charlie Newton, a dreamy...
Under Capricorn (1949)
To many, Under Capricorn ranks as Alfred Hitchcock’s worst release since coming over to the U.S. to make movies, but even Hitch at his worst is pretty damned good. With him at the helm, and Ingrid...
Citizen Kane (1941)
The last word uttered by media magnate and multimillionaire tycoon, Charles Foster Kane (Welles, Touch of Evil), was “rosebud”. During preparations for a newsreel story on Kane’s life, the producers determine that they need to...