"...the film is the equivalent of the book you can't put down."
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| With Joan Fontaine. |
Suspicion - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"Two thirds of Hitchcock's Suspicion is very good, and that is enough to make a thriller. During that time Hitchcock used all his smoothness and his sharp eye for detail to build up a situation in which a loving wife (Joan Fontaine) is in danger of being poisoned by an equally loving but less trustworthy husband (Cary Grant). A best friend (Nigel Bruce, as a chubby ass) has already, mysteriously, fallen by the way. The fact that Hitchcock throws in a happy end during the last five minutes, like a conjurer explaining his tricks, seems to me a pity; but it spoils the film only in retrospect, and we have already had our thrills. A steep cliff, a letter from an insurance company, a glass of milk at the bedside - on such details and on the equivocal looks that foreshadow murder, Hitchcock fixes a fascinated gaze. So long as the magic lasts (there's a slow beginning, by the way) the film is the equivalent of the book you can't put down.
- William Whitebait, The New Statesman and Nation
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" ...a high-polish job, a kind of reversion to the urbanities of a gentleman Raffles..."
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| With Grace Kelly. |
To Catch A Thief - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"Has Alfred Hitchcock over-refined his technique? There are those who will say yes after seeing his To Catch A Thief, but this fan is quite happy with Hitchcock as he is. In his latest mystery, the emphasis is less on the mystery than on the incidental mechanics that develop it, much as it was in Rear Window, though here the plot is even thinner.
Nevertheless, it is a high-polish job, a kind of reversion to the urbanities of a gentleman Raffles, with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly ideal in the romantic leads."
- Philip K. Scheuer, Los Angeles Times
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"...with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant to bring glamour and sultry vitality to the leads..."
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| With Ingrid Bergman. |
Notorious - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"The unease that assaults an artist transplanted bodily out of his native soil has affected even veteran director Alfred Hitchcock who, since his arrival in Hollywood, has consistently failed to live up to the standards of Thirty-Nine Steps and The Lady Vanishes. A celebration is therefore in order for his most recent effort, Notorious. With a highly polished script by Ben Hecht, and with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant to bring glamour and sultry vitality to the leads, Mr. Hitchcock has fashioned a film in the supercharged American idiom of the sort that made Casablanca popular. With a minimum of tricks and an uncluttered story line, he tells of a beautiful American spy who marries an enemy leader and is rescued at Zero hour by her secret service superior when her husband tries to poison her.
- Hermine Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts Magazine
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"...two of the very slickest operators before and behind the Hollywood cameras."
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| With Eva Marie Saint. |
North by Northwest - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"If it does nothing else (but it does, it does), North by Northwest resoundingly reaffirms the fact that Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock are two of the very slickest operators before and behind the Hollywood cameras. Together they can be unbeatable. Each has his own special, career-tested formula. Actor Grant's is a sartorial spiffiness and mannered charm; producer-director Hitchcock's is an outrageously simple yet effective blend of mayhem and humor at mayhem's expense, the whole usually framed by a famous piece of scenery that no one else had ever considered a suitable backdrop for melodramatic shenanigans. The present shiny and colorful collaboration offers Grant as a dapper Madison Avenue advertising executive being chased by foreign agents over the slippery precipices of the Presidential faces carved into Mount Rushmore - a most unlikely bit of contrived suspense, but one that is hypnotizing while it jangles the nerves."
- Newsweek
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"Why did I take up stealing?"
"Daisies and buttercups, wasn't it?"
"My name is Thornhill - Roger Thornhill"
Cary Grant's 40th full length feature film, Suspicion, was released today in 1941.
With Joan Fontaine and Alfred Hitchcock on set.
On this day in 1955, Cary Grant's 60th full length feature film was released at the Venice Film Festival.
Its official release was earlier in the month...its just that I missed it!!!!
