Posts From Brent Reid
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Murder! and Mary (1930/1931)
In 1956, the Master famously remade his own 1934 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much But 26 years before that, he directed two very different versions of this murder mystery
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Elstree Calling (1930)
The Master co-directed this musical, sharing duties with Adrian Brunel Waltzes from Vienna is wrongly thought of as Hitchcock’s only musical It’s a delightful all star revue featuring many regular
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Juno and the Paycock (1930)
When the luck of the Irish ran out: the outlook is grey in the Emerald Isle The first all-talking film from the young director is a funny but dark drama
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Blackmail (1929)
NEWS: Blackmail the play revival! Mercury Theatre, Colchester, 4-19 March, 2022 | writer article | director interview Production Hitchcock breaks the sound barrier with Britain’s first talkie It saw off
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Manxman (1929)
The Master’s last fully silent film is a haunting, romantic smalltown drama Carl Brisson, star of The Ring, is caught up in another traumatic love triangle Secrets and lies prepared
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Champagne (1928)
The Master’s second comedy features Betty Balfour, Britain’s biggest star of the 1920s But even her effervescent charms can’t keep it from occasionally falling a little flat Its mostly hit but a little
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
The Master’s uproarious first comedy is stuffed with oddballs and eccentrics It’s full of good old-fashioned English humour, from gentle to earthy and bawdy With slapstick and even subtle smut,
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: The Ring (1927)
The Master of Suspense turns in a technical tour de force in this prize winning tale Danish actor Carl Brisson, star of two Hitchcocks, suffers a hit in love in both
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Easy Virtue (1927)
His most obscure and maligned film, only surviving in severely compromised condition Only a few badly worn 16mm prints exist, all missing over 25% of their original footage As one
Alfred Hitchcock Collectors’ Guide: Downhill (1927)
Not a murder in sight, but it’s still one of the darkest films in the Master’s canon The star of The Lodger returns to suffer again in another story of the