Just as issues of trust and mistrust between men and women often fuelled Hitchcock's thrillers, so they informed most of his comedies. In this wry, episodic cautionary tale of a suburban couple fleeing the daily grind on a luxury cruise, the characters fall prey to different kinds of temptation.
This early Alfred Hitchcock drama sees him again adapting a stage play; this time reworking Galsworthy's account of the increasingly bitter, even vicious battle for land between an aristocratic family (down to their last Rolls Royce) and a nouveau riche industrialist. With Edmund Gwenn in the fir...
Father-daughter tensions arise when a millionaire (Harker), suspecting his playgirl daughter's fiancé is a gold-digger, pretends the family fortune is gone. A bubbly comic parable built around Betty Balfour's effervescent energy, the film is an early example of Hitchcock's long-term fascination w...
A grocer's daughter kills a man who tries to sexually assault her. Her boyfriend, a policeman, attempts to cover up the murder. However, a small-time crook witnessed the act and threatens to blackmail the couple. Only Hitchcock's second crime film, Blackmail would sow the seeds for many of his ma...
