Posted on 06/26/2015 8:07:29 PM PDT by DemforBush
An early Alfred Hitchcock film tonight.
A well-meaning tourist vacationing in London (Robert Donat) finds his life turned upside down when a strange and desperate woman comes to him claiming secret agents are after her. He agrees to put her up for the night, only to find her murdered the next morning. With himself now the prime suspect, he must evade both the law and uncover who the woman was, and why someone wanted her dead...
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Kiss of Death 8/10
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Detour 7/10
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M 8.25/10
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It’s one of his better movies.
It’s an excellent movie. Also well worth reading the novel, by John Buchan. It’s the first in a series of novels he wrote with the same characters, in connection with the First World War.
It’s a good movie, and it led the way for some later films, especially Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “North by Northwest.”
If you are up for or maybe down to, something different try
“The God of Cookery”
with Stephen Chow and Anita Mui
Hong Kong films from this era lack a lot of polished production values and most of them, this one included are rather vulgar but they are also really funny in a Blazing Saddles non PC sort of way. If this film was made in Hollywood it would be blacklisted as racist. The link below is to the official You Tube upload linked below is the official one from the studio so there are no copyright issues and you can click past the adverts that appear every 15 minutes or so. It also has really good English Subtitles.
This film is worth seeing just see how ugly they managed to make the late Anita Mui look so ugly when she was actually one of the most gorgeous women on the planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwYHmTaACUw
It's a superb novel, and still holds up today. I've only read one of the sequels, Greenmantle, but I wasn't impressed. Richard Hanay, Agent of the British Military Intelligence, is a much less interesting character than Richard Hanay, wanted man on the run from both the police and the spies.
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