World War II brought a dramatic change to the life-styles of many Amer­icans who were still recovering from the ravages of the Great Depression. Most found the intrusion of war into their daily lives a …

Lifeboat, Alfred Hitchcock’s seventh American film, marked a consider­able departure from the kind of suspense thriller on which his reputation is based. This nine-character story is remarkable in that it takes place entirely in only …

(as King Lear, in 2008)
The rumbling, knob-nosed, rough-looking Pete Postlethwaite, who died yesterday, was the kind of integral character actor who could always rest assured that his ten minutes of a movie would be sensational. …

When Francis Iles wrote the novel Before the Fact, from which Suspicion was drawn, it had a fascinating ending. While the film was in production, Hitchcock must have been aiming toward that same ending since …

It is fortunate for filmgoing audiences that Sam Goldwyn was a stubborn man, for without his obstinacy, Dodsworth might never have been made. Even though his studio turned out many entertaining products year after year, …