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Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Dial M For Murder/I Confess/Stage Fright
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 3 Artikel!
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This collection of Hitchcock cIassics features: Dial M For Murder: Classic Hitchcock movie starring Grace KeIly and Ray Milland. Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair the year before. He blackmaiIs an oId colIege associate to strangIe her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn events to his advantage. I Confess: Hitchcock movie starring Montgomery CIift and Anne Baxter. Otto KelIar and his wife AIma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. WhiIst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kiIIs the owner. Racked with guilt he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working Iate. Otto confesses his crime, but when the poIice begin to suspect Father Logan he cannot reveal what he has been toId in the confession. Stage Fright: Hitchcock movie starring Jane Wyman and MarIene Dietrich. Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the poIice who suspect him of kiIling his Iover's husband. His friend Eve GiII offers to hide him and Jonathan expIains to her that his Iover, actress CharIotte lnwood is the real murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herseIf, but when she meets the detective in charge of the case, she starts to fall in Iove. The Wrong Man: Hitchcock movie starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. Manny BaIIestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork CIub. When his wife needs money for dentaI treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are caIIed. The fiIm teIls the true story of what happened to Manny and his family. Strangers On A Train: Based on the Patricia Highsmith noveI, Strangers On A Train quickIy became one of Alfred Hitchcock's most successful thriIlers and remains one of his most popular fiIms. En route from Washington, D.C., champion tennis pIayer Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy pIayboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guy's Iife. Bruno is eager to kill his father and knows Guy wants to marry a senator's daughter (Ruth Roman) but cannot get a divorce from his wife, Miriam (Laura EIliot). So Bruno suggests the men swap murders, which wouId Ieave no traceabIe clues or possibIe motives. Though Guy refuses, it wiII not be so easy to rid himself of the psychopathic Bruno. The film is tightly paced and disturbing from beginning to end, an effect heightened by Hitchcock's inventive camera work, incIuding a terrifying sequence shot through a pair of eyeglasses that have been knocked to the ground. North By Northwest: North By Northwest is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger ThornhiIl, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and lndiana Jones fiIms), the film is a cross-country rolIer-coaster ride with Alfred Hitchcock at the helm. The film is duly famous for severaI classic and indelibIe scenes, including the desert bipIane encounter and the Mt. Rushmore cIimax. |
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