A mundane seaside boarding house becomes the setting for a nightmare evening, once two strange visitors arrive, (Tafler & Magee). The landlady, Meg (Nichols), is unaware of their intentions towards her only other resident, Stanley (Shaw). Everything comes to a head during an impromptu birthday party for Stanley. Pinter & Comedy of Menace The film
quote Richard Hannay (Donat), a man visiting England from Canada, gets mixed up in international espionage. An adventure that sends him on the run through Scotland, in search of "The 39 Steps". Direction Hitchcock's films always stand out, in part due to his attention to camera placement, focus and the blocking of his characters in
William Powell plays the role of Nick Charles, a retired private detective turned lush. His rich wife, Nora, played by Myrna Loy, has inherited her late father's business and Nick has taken on the responsibility of running it and living in luxury. While at the lobby bar at the Ritz, Nick runs in to the
A child predator, torments a Berlin neighborhood. The attacks on the helpless youth strikes fear and paranoia in the citizens. The death of young Elsie Beckmann causes the paranoia to skyrocket and further highlight the police inabilities to find the culprit. Police investigator, Karl Lohmann (Wernicke), decides to raid known hangouts of organized crime members.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 silent horror/thriller out of Germany's Weimar era. A young man reminisces about how he met his fiancé and their encounter with a somnambulist, sleepwalker. The mystery that unfolds is loaded with bizarre set designs, heavy handed makeup, creative editing, and murder. The German Expressionist style of the
