Perhaps the archetypal example of Alfred Hitchcock’s favoured ‘wrong man’ narrative, North by Northwest combines irresistible 50s Hollywood glamour…
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Busting out of a maximum-security prison in Alaska, two hardened convicts - older, wilier Manny and young boxing champ Buck (John Voight and Eric…
Continue readingFollowing an ecological disaster that users in a new Ice Age, the remains of humanity occupies an enormous train that traverses the globe, even its…
Continue readingAdapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel released the year before, Strangers on a Train features some of Alfred Hitchcock’s most iconic train…
Continue readingAn evocative crime film set on the grimy, pre-gentrified New York subway. Four men dressed identically and with colour-coded codenames board the IRT…
Continue readingFrance, 1944. Art lover and fanatical Nazi Colonel Von Waldheim has plundered a Paris museum for its masterpieces. His intention is to have them…
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