tmwktm 1.jpg — The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 1h 15m**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Clever Plot, Brevity**
**Weakness: Slight**

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

January 31, 2020

When an American Family, vacationing abroad, gets mixed up in an assassination plot, the couple must choose between stopping an international coup or saving their kidnapped daughter.

MV5BMTAxNDA1ODc5MDleQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU4MDg2MDA4OTEx._V1_.jpg — The Birds (1963)

**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright, Suzanne Pleshette**
**Rated: PG-13**
**Running Time: 1 h 59 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Characters, Story, Sound Mixing, Effects**
**WEAKNESSES: Slightly Schlocky, Some Character Choices**

The Birds (1963)

January 31, 2020

A wealthy woman from San Francisco takes a trip to a Northern Californian town where she and the residents are inexplicably attacked by flocks of birds.

fc 1.jpg — Foreign Correspondent (1940)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall**
**Rated: NR**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 3 Stars**
**Strengths: Cinematography, Execution of Some Sequences.**
**Weakness: Seems Slight, Dated Sentimentality, Weak Love Story**

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

January 31, 2020

John Jones is tasked with drumming up the news of what is going on in Europe during the lead up to WW2. As he probes for information he witnesses an assassination, falls in love with the daughter of a peace broker, and even avoids assassination himself. Whatever it takes to get the scoop.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1 h 52 m**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**STRENGTHS: Style, Intense, Fun**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Dated Material**

Rear Window (1954)

January 30, 2020

A wheelchair-bound photographer and his girlfriend believe they might’ve stumbled upon a murder.

mwktm 1.jpg — The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

**Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie , Bernard Miles**
**Rated: PG**
**Run Time: 2h**
**TMM Score: 4 Stars**
**Strengths: Sense of Impending Tragedy, Tension**
**Weakness: Child Acting, Annoying Song**

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

January 29, 2020

When American family, travelling abroad, the McKenna’s, meet a friendly but mysterious Frenchman, they are caught up in an international assassination plot with more than just the life of the Prime Minister at stake.

Vertigo (1958)

January 29, 2020

At the request of a friend, a former detective investigates an acquaintance’s wife, whom has been acting mysterious. As he does, he finds himself falling in love with the woman.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin**
**Rated: R**
**Running Time: 1 h 49 m**
**TMM Score: 5 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Directing, Writing, Acting, Soundtrack, Editing, Cinematography, Subversion of Expectations**
**WEAKNESSES: Psychiatrist Monologue**

Psycho (1960)

January 27, 2020

A secretary steals forty thousand dollars and absconds from Phoenix, but things take a turn for the worse after she checks into a motel run by a peculiar young man and his domineering mother.

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**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders**
**Rated: Nr (Suggested PG for some Thematic Material)**
**Running Time: 2 h 10 m**
**TMM Score: 4 stars out of 5**
**STRENGTHS: Story, Cinematography, Production Design, Some Acting, Old Hollywood Charm**
**WEAKNESSES: Some Pacing, Some Melodramatic Moments**

Rebecca (1940)

November 6, 2018

A young woman marries a rich troubled widower and is constantly reminded of her husband’s deceased wife.

tcat 1.jpg — To Catch A Thief (1955)

**Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock**
**Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis**
**Rated: PG**
**Running Time: 1h 46m**
**TMM Score: 2 Stars (didn’t like it)**
**STRENGTHS: Production**
**WEAKNESSES: Lack of Suspense**

To Catch A Thief (1955)

November 6, 2018

A retired jewel thief is suspected by the authorities, and everyone else, of committing a new string of burglaries. The only solution to his problem seems to be using his expertise to catch the real thief.

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