Frederick Knott's theatrical thriller, forever a staple of provincial playhouses, comes to the screen under the aegis of Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious). Its cinematization, however, depends not so much on any overt attacks on its staginess and talkiness as on the simple imposition of 3-D; and not so much on any …
Frederick Knott's theatrical thriller, forever a staple of provincial playhouses, comes to the screen under the aegis of Alfred Hitchcock (Notorious). Its cinematization, however, depends not so much on any overt attacks on its staginess and talkiness as on the simple imposition of 3-D; and not so much on any …
The thinking man's Western by Carl Foreman, writer, and Fred Zinnemann, director, rounds up a basic unit of stereotypes — the legendary aging lawman, his pale-skinned pacifist wife, the dark-complexioned shady lady from his past, and a band of desperadoes with a score to settle — and nearly paralyzes them …
Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra star in Charles Walters' musical remake of The Philadelphia Story.
Streetwalker's fairy tale, down a somewhat different street from that of Pretty Woman, a quiet suburban one, into a ready-made family composed of an ecologically conscious widower and his prepubescent son. Grace Kelly is the working girl's avowed ideal ("She married a prince, and never grew old"), but seeing as …
A premise with broad appeal for the casual and occasional voyeur: a globe-trotting photojournalist, confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, whiling away the hours of a summer hot spell by spying on his neighbors around the tenement courtyard, begins to suspect the neighbor across the way of having …
Alfred Hitchcock, slimmed down to the lightweight class (he's in best form as a light-heavy), tells a nothing tale about a debonair cat burglar who is forced out of restful retirement on the French Riviera. Hitchcock uses jewels as a sexual symbol in such a manner as to pass for …
Patsy Kensit, with her permanently puckered lips, takes us into the innermost thoughts of a sexual adventuress who seems to feel that sleeping with two men at more or less the same time, one of whom is borderline impotent, requires the disclaimer: "I don't want you getting the idea I'm …