Planning is now underway for a movie marathon at my place in December of this year that will last a whopping 12 days. “The Twelve Days of Hitchcock” will be a movie-fest which will feature the viewing of all 30 of Alfred Hitchcock’s Hollywood films over twelve days. Two films will be presented each weeknight and three to four films presented on Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n
Hitchcock’s Hollywood Films: 1940-1976<\/strong> Planning is now underway for a movie marathon at my place in December of this year that will last a whopping 12 days. “The Twelve Days of Hitchcock” will be a movie-fest which will feature the viewing of all 30 of Alfred Hitchcock’s Hollywood films over twelve days. Two films will be presented each weeknight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-xb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRebecca (1940)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine
\nAdaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s famous novel of a couple tormented by the presence of the husband’s dead wife.
\nForeign Correspondent (1940)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Joel McCrea and Laraine Day
\nAn unsuspecting crime reporter gets swept up in an international espionage conspiracy in this fast-paced adventure.
\nMr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery
\nHilarious screwball comedy about the merry mishaps that befall a couple after they discover they weren’t legally married.
\nSuspicion (1941)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine
\nSubtle suspense and fine-drawn tension in this mystery of a wealthy woman who suspects her playboy husband wants to murder her.
\nSaboteur (1942)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings
\nFalse accusations of murder and sabotage leads to some surprising consequences in this chilling film.
\nShadow of a Doubt (1943)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright
\nWoman suspects her loving uncle of murder. Hitchcock’s own personal favorite.
\nLifeboat (1944)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Tallulah Bankhead and William Bendix
\nPsychological thriller about survivors trapped on a lifeboat with limited supplies. Features nail biting suspense and fine performances.
\nSpellbound (1945)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck
\nAn amnesiac impersonating a famous psychologist. The doctor who wants to save him– even if he is guilty of murder.
\nNotorious (1946)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman
\nA classic tale of love and betrayal– an FBI agent must send the woman he
\nloves to seduce a Nazi conspirator.
\nThe Paradine Case (1947)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Gregory Peck and Alida Valli
\nCourtroom melodrama about a lawyer who falls for his client.
\nRope (1948)<\/strong>
\nStarring: James Stewart and Farley Granger
\nCompelling tale of murder between friends, famed for its basis on Leopold & Loeb case and experimental cinematography.
\nUnder Capricorn (1949)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten
\nPeriod drama details saga of an English lady who falls in love with her cousin.
\nStage Fright (1950)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich
\nDrama student accused of murder must battle to prove her own innocence.
\nStrangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Farley Granger and Ruth Roman
\nA must-see classic, this tale of strangers who take on each other’s murders builds to a nail-biting climax.
\nI Confess (1953)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter
\nThoughtful character study of a priest who hears a murderer’s confession – only to fall under suspicion himself.
\nDial M for Murder (1954)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Ray Milland and Grace Kelly
\nAn heiress and her husband’s oh-so-perfect plot to kill her make up this taut thriller.
\nRear Window (1954)<\/strong>
\nStarring: James Stewart and Grace Kelly
\nOne of the Master’s finest– a photographer laid up with a broken leg finds himself caught up in his neighbors’ lives– and one of their murders.
\nTo Catch a Thief (1955)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Grace Kelly and Cary Grant
\nRomance and intrigue combine in a seaside resort when a reformed jewel thief is suspected of a rash of burglaries.
\nThe Trouble with Harry (1955)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Edmund Gwenn and John Forsythe
\nIn this black comedy, a small town has a big problem– a body that won’t stay put.
\nThe Wrong Man (1956)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Henry Fonda and Vera Miles
\nIt’s noir \u00c3\u00a0 la Hitchcock in this stark, gritty tale of a wrongly-accused jazz musician.
\nThe Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)<\/strong>
\nStarring: James Stewart and Doris Day
\nHitchcock’s edge-of-your-seat remake of his own 1934 movie involves Americans caught up in an assassination plot.
\nVertigo (1958)<\/strong>
\nStarring: James Stewart and Kim Novak
\nConsidered Hitchcock’s masterpiece – caught in a never-ending spiral of deception and obsession, a private detective must discover the truth behind the death of the woman he loved.
\nNorth by Northwest (1959)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint
\nHeart-stopping suspense abound in this tale of an innocent man mistaken for a notorious spy.
\nPsycho (1960)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh
\nThe seminal horror film of a young man tormented by his past– and his mother.
\nThe Birds (1963)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren
\nTerror strikes out of nowhere when birds begin mysteriously attacking anyone and anything in their way.
\nMarnie (1964)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren
\nA beautiful kleptomaniac and the man who loves her clash in this psychological thriller.
\nTorn Curtain (1966)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Paul Newman and Julie Andrews
\nBewildering his wife, friends, and colleagues, an American physicist defects– or does he?
\nTopaz (1969)<\/strong>
\nStarring: John Forsythe and Frederick Stafford
\nDanger and intrigue abound in this complex espionage thriller.
\nFrenzy (1972)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Jon Finch and Barry Foster
\nThe Master at his most shocking in this black comedy about a series of strangulations.
\nFamily Plot (1976)<\/strong>
\nStarring: Karen Black and Bruce Dern
\nA phony psychic faces off with a jewel thief in this thriller\/comedy.~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"