Classic Corner
River of No Return
(1954) ★★★
Widower Robert Mitchum is stranded in hostile Injun territory with his young son and Marilyn Monroe, a saloon singer with a gold claim...
Rear Window
(1954) ★★★★★
Like William Shakespeare, Alfred Hitchcock understood the human condition. Rear Window is perhaps the clearest example of this. Although here – as James...
Psycho
(1960) ★★★★★
Film 4: Wednesday 27 May, 10.55pm
Thornton Wilder’s small town murder story Shadow of a Doubt (1943) is routinely trotted out as Alfred Hitchcock’s...
The Train
(1964) ★★★★
TCM: Friday 22 May, 3pm
Bellicose Burt Lancaster helps the French Resistance in an audacious attempt to prevent the Nazis taking great works of...
Bell, Book and Candle
(1958) ★★★
Film4: Monday 11 May, 12.45pm
The same year James Stewart and Kim Novak starred in Vertigo, they made this attractive theatrical trifle. He’s a...
Vertigo
(1958) ★★★★★
BBC2: Saturday 9 May, 2.50pm
Alfred Hitchcock learned from the silent masters – montage from Sergei Eisenstein, atmosphere from Fritz Lang – and proceeded...
On The Beach
(1959) ★★★★
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The most striking aspect of Neville Shute’s Atomic...
Major Dundee
(1964) ★★★★
Embattled film-maker Sam Peckinpah was at war with Hollywood all his career. And with himself all his life, which ended with a heart attack...