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Alfred Hitchcock’s British Thrillers at Lacma

26 November 2009 11:32 PM, PST | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom) On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its "Hitchcock: The British Thrillers" series. They are: The 39 Steps (1935), starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll; Number 17 (1932), featuring the now-forgotten John Stuart and Anne Grey; The Lady Vanishes (1938), starring Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty, and a cast of first-rate supporting players, including future Oscar winner Paul Lukas; Young and Innocent (1937), with Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney. The 39 Steps is the film that turned Alfred Hitchcock into an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. The film goes from one situation [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Glorious 39 | Film review

21 November 2009 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

This is an enjoyable conspiracy thriller in the manner of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May, starring the fetching Romola Garai as Anne, politically naive movie star and adopted daughter of a rich Tory MP with a country estate in Norfolk, who, in the long hot summer of 1939, stumbles across an establishment plot involving the Sis and the aristocracy. They'll stop at nothing, including blackmail and assassination, to keep Britain from going to war, and when war breaks out, to making peace with Nazi Germany. There's a remarkable British cast, and the film holds up well until the last couple of reels. But there's some clunking dialogue, and as history it's fuzzy and unconvincing. The nods towards Hitchcock remind us that in 1938 the Master made an allegorical masterpiece about Munich and appeasement, his greatest British movie, The Lady Vanishes.

Period and historicalThrillerPhilip French

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- Philip French

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Hammer Horror to Ink Books With Blood

14 October 2009 6:13 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

If you’re familiar with classic horror, Hammer Film Productions will drum up instant images of 1950s/60s/70s monster sequels, such as The Revenge of Frankenstein and the Christopher Lee Dracula films. Since the seventies, Hammer has survived through British television specials and straight to DVD productions.

Now, Hammer is planning a resurgence into cinemas by re-releasing some of their classics, along with signing a deal with U.K. literary agency Pfd for future book deals based on their properties.

“Hammer is an iconic household name with a loyal fanbase and the raft of forthcoming initiatives will create a whole new generation of devotees,” said Caroline Michel, CEO of Pfd. The deal will “bring new life to the brand with exciting contemporary writers.”

I’m imagining a whole slew of cheesy Hammer dime novels in grocery stores, and that’s not entirely a bad thing. The Hammer House is »

- John Cooper

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2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 1999

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