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18 The Genius of Hitchcock (continued)
YOUNG AND INNOCENT STAGE FRIGHT
THE 39 STEPS NORTH BY NORTHWEST
To help you find your way through this
Hitchcock retrospective, we’ve split the films
into categories:
HITCHCOCK’S BRITAIN
Follow the director’s progress from Leytonstone
and London’s film studios, around the sceptered
isle of his imagination.
GUILTY?
Immerse yourself in Hitchcock’s complex moral
universe, where guilt and innocence aren’t always
what they seem.
SECRET AGENTS
Unlock the codes, puzzles and secrets within
Hitchcock’s spy films.
HITCHCOCK’S ODYSSEYS
Hitch a ride on a plane, a train, or an automobile:
on the run with Hitchcock’s heroes.
More to come in the next programme!
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Young and Innocent
HITCHCOCK’S
Sun 19 Aug at 6.30pm &
ODYSSEYS
Thu 23 Aug at 8.50pm
Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1937 • 1h22m • Digital projection • U
Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward
Rigby, Mary Clare.
A delight, unfairly neglected due to an obscure cast and,
probably, to the breezy tone adopted in following another
fugitive ‘wrong man’ in search of justice; here, his initially
reluctant accomplice is a spunky policeman’s daughter
(the excellent Nova Pilbeam). Regular collaborator Charles
Bennett’s typically droll script makes space for two fine
set-pieces: a kids’ party and (with a remarkable crane shot)
a dance in a swish hotel. But the film also fascinates as a
(partly location-shot) voyage around the highways and
byways of rural southern England.
Stage Fright
GUILTY?
Wed 22 Aug at 6.00pm &
Thu 30 Aug at 8.45pm
Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1950 • 1h51m • Format TBC • PG
Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Todd, Michael
Wilding, Alastair Sim.
A man (Richard Todd), suspected of murdering the
husband of his actress lover (Marlene Dietrich), goes on
the run with a RADA student (Jane Wyman) he asks to help
clear his name. But who’s guilty, and of what? Another look
at the (far from mutually exclusive) relationship between
acting and ‘reality’, another tour around London and the
South East and another selection of fine set-pieces. But
the most joy (for Hitch, perhaps, as for us) lies in the British
supporting cast: Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Grenfell and,
superbly, Alastair Sim.
The 39 Steps
HITCHCOCK’S
Fri 24 Aug at 3.30pm &
ODYSSEYS
Sat 25 Aug at 3.30pm
Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1935 • 1h27m • Digital projection
U – Contains very mild language and violence
Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey
Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft.
Swept from a London music hall to the Scottish Highlands
and back to the Palladium, Robert Donat’s Richard Hannay is
the archetypal wrongly accused man, embarking on a quest
to find the villain and prove his innocence; he also meets a
less than dependable blonde, encounters various dubious
‘friends’, and never gets to sort out the MacGuffin. The model
for many subsequent films, this amazingly pacy version
of John Buchan’s novel is one of Hitchcock’s most fully
satisfying achievements: tense, witty, effortlessly stylish and
emotionally direct, it’s his warmest, most touching movie.
North by Northwest
HITCHCOCK’S
Fri 24 to Tue 28 Aug
ODYSSEYS
Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1959 • 2h16m • Digital projection
PG – Contains mild violence and sex references
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G Carroll,
Jessie Royce Landis.
North by Northwest treads a bizarre tightrope between sex
and repression, nightmarish thriller and urbane comedy.
Cary Grant is truly superb as the light-hearted advertising
executive who’s abducted, escapes, and is then hounded
across America trying to find out what’s going on, and
slowly being forced to assume another man’s identity. With
a sizzling love interest in the form of Eva Marie Saint, James
Mason on top form as a suave villain, and a thrilling score
by Bernard Herrmann, it has all the ingredients of a classic.