Customer Review: Years ago I owned the full screen version of this movie on laserdisc. When the widescreen version of the movie came out on laserdisc I bought that. I decided to do an A/B comparison of the 2 and to my ... Read More
Customer Review: Years ago I owned the full screen version of this movie on laserdisc. When the widescreen version of the movie came out on laserdisc I bought that. I decided to do an A/B comparison of the 2 and to my surprise quickly realized ... Read More
Customer Review: I love both of these actors, but this plot wasn't my cup of tea. He takes her precious chairs to sell for gambling money, and has schemes to make a futune quick and easy.He calls her "Monkey face" which is appalling too! I love Joan Fontaine and just felt ... Read More
Customer Review: Hitchcock's 1963 drama/horror/thriller "The Birds" details the story of a city woman (Tippi Hedren) going to the rural coastal town Bodega Bay to play a coquettish prank on a lawyer whom she met in the city (Rod Taylor). As she starts to get to know the town the birds ... Read More
Customer Review: "Rebecca" is one of the finest films of the 1940's, and features Joan Fontaine as the second mistress of Manderley, forever living in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor. Lawrence Olivier is perhaps detached in his performance, but nevertheless embodies the master of ... Read More
Customer Review: Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" is one of his best films. Most of the movie takes place in a single room, but it remarkably doesn't feel limited or claustrophobic. Based on a screenplay of the same name, by Frederick Knott, this thriller is a brilliantly directed suspense ... Read More
Customer Review: Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958) is said by some to be his most personal film. "Vertigo" is about a San Francisco detective, John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) who has acrophobia (vertigo). He is hired as a private detective, after having retired from police work, by Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) ... Read More
Customer Review: When I put this DVD in my DVD player I was in for a film lover's treat. Sir. Alfred Hitchcock's landmark in the genre of the horror film has never looked better. Why this film was overlooked by the Academy of Motion Pictures is one of greatest sins in film history. This two disc presentation from Universal ... Read More
"Is it true, or just a rumour--that John Robie, a former cat burglar of Paris before the war [World War II], is once again on the prowl? Fashionable resorts on the Riviera are being regularly looted by a skilful jewel thief. Robie, once a hero in the French Resistance Army, was said to have ... Read More
