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Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rich and Strange’ Is a Grimly Comic Journey to the Limits of Marriage

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rich and Strange’ Is a Grimly Comic Journey to the Limits of Marriage

Hitchcock’s Rich and Strange follows a clueless English couple wandering the world and being chastened by what they find: their flawed selves.

Alfred Hitchcock Plays with Trains in ‘Number Seventeen’

Alfred Hitchcock Plays with Trains in ‘Number Seventeen’

Alfred Hitchcock’s Number Seventeen isn’t a great film but a good one that reminds us of what a casually obsessive craftsman he was.

Hitchcock’s ‘Blackmail’ and the Birth of the British Talkies

Hitchcock’s ‘Blackmail’ and the Birth of the British Talkies

Consideration of both the sound and the silent versions of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Blackmail’ provides a unique opportunity to explore the methods of an artist and industry in transition.