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All Things Hitchcock
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A playlist of movies & tv shows dedicated to Legendary Director of Suspense, Sir Alfred Hitchcock


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Movie: Psycho ( 1960 )
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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Movie: The Birds ( 1963 )
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
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Movie: North by Northwest ( 1959 )
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
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Movie: The 39 Steps ( 1935 )
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
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Movie: Dial M for Murder ( 1954 )
A tennis player frames his unfaithful wife for first-degree murder after she inadvertently hinders his plan to kill her.
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Movie: Rear Window ( 1954 )
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.
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Movie: Saboteur ( 1942 )
An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
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Movie: Lifeboat ( 1944 )
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the U-boat men who sunk it.
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Movie: Torn Curtain ( 1966 )
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
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Movie: The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 )
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
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Movie: The Wrong Man ( 1957 )
Christopher Emanuel Balestrero, "Manny" to his friends, is a string bassist, a devoted husband and father, and a practicing Catholic. His eighty-five dollar a week gig playing in the jazz combo at the Stork Club is barely enough to make ends meet. The Balestreros' lives will become a little more difficult with the major dental bills his wife Rose will be incurring. As such, Manny decides to see if he can borrow off of Rose's life insurance policy. But when he enters the insurance office, he is identified by some of the clerks as the man that held up the office twice a few months earlier. Manny cooperates with the police, as he has nothing to hide. Manny learns that he is a suspect in not only those hold-ups, but a series of other hold-ups in the same Jackson Heights neighborhood in New York City where they live. The more that Manny cooperates, the more guilty he appears to the police. With the help of Frank O'Connor, the attorney that they hire, they try to prove Manny's innocence. Regardless of if they manage to prove Manny's innocence or find the actual hold-up man, the situation may cause irreparable damage on the Balestreros.
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Movie: The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 )
An American physician and his wife take matters into their own hands after assassins planning to execute a foreign Prime Minister kidnap their son.
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Movie: Sabotage ( 1937 )
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London. He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover, but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the gang.
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Movie: Strangers on a Train ( 1951 )
Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused to divorce him. It all leads the police to believe Guy is responsible for the murder, forcing him to deal with Bruno's mad ravings.
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Movie: Stage Fright ( 1950 )
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.
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Movie: Rope ( 1948 )
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
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Movie: Vertigo ( 1958 )
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
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Movie: Topaz ( 1969 )
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
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Movie: Frenzy ( 1972 )
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
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Movie: Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 )
On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
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Movie: Family Plot ( 1976 )
A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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Movie: Spellbound ( 1945 )
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
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Movie: The Trouble with Harry ( 1955 )
Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
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Movie: Suspicion ( 1941 )
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
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TV Show: Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1955 )
In this half-hour anthology series, master of the macabre Alfred Hitchcock introduces and concludes tales of suspense and crime. Hitchcock's speeches are filled with black humor and jabs at his network sponsors. In 1962, the series expanded to an hour and was renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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TV Show: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ( 1962 )
Previously Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the series expanded to an hour. Master of the macabre Alfred Hitchcock introduces and concludes tales of suspense and crime. Hitchcock's speeches are filled with black humor and jabs at his network sponsors.
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Movie: The Skin Game ( 1931 )
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
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Movie: Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 )
A couple who have been married for three years are shocked to learn that their marriage is not legally valid.
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Movie: The Paradine Case ( 1948 )
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
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Movie: To Catch a Thief ( 1955 )
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
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Movie: Forever and a Day ( 1943 )
During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is resolutely against the sale. While they spend the night in an air-raid shelter she tells him the story of the building from its construction in 1804 until the present.
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Movie: Marnie ( 1964 )
Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
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Movie: Rebecca ( 1940 )
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
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Movie: Notorious ( 1946 )
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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Movie: I Confess ( 1953 )
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
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TV Show: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1985 )
Alfred Hitchcock Presents was an anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985-1986, and on the USA Network from 1987-1989.