Showing posts with label alfred hitchcock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alfred hitchcock. Show all posts

Monday, April 23, 2018

Movie Poster of the Week

1948
"Rope" 
starring James Stewart
based on the 1929 play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton.  This was adapted by Hume Cronyn with the screenplay by Arthur Laurents. 
This was the first of Alfred Hitchcock' technicolor films. 


Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion!
1941
starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine 
(Joan Fontaine would win the Academy Award for Best Actress)



Monday, April 20, 2015

Classic Movie Poster of the Week

1940
Rebecca

The winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1940 and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, first american project and earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.



Rebecca from 1948 Screen Guild Theater Radio production

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tales Well Calculated to Keep you in.....




Well my friend Buck Benny at buckbenny podcast is at it again and its, as usual, wonderful stuff.  He is doing a summer of adventure while his regular shows are on summer vacation.   We get to hear Suspense from its beginnings as an audition show in 1940 on CBS' Forecast along with Gunsmoke from its first season in 1952, Escape, X Minus One and The Voyage of the Scarlett Queen and the wonderful radio series from 1984 Bradbury 13

So please stop over and listen to some of the best Old Time Radio on the internet with Buck Benny.
Enjoy his latest podcast and I have also included a couple of great episodes from Suspense one of the finest radio dramas ever that ran regular shows from 1942-1962.

Here is the audition episode for Suspense from July 22nd 1940 "The Lodger" 



Bradbury 13 from April 9th 1984 "Night Call Collect" 

  

 The first regular run episode of Suspense "The Burning Court" with Charles Ruggles. June 17th 1942

Episode 2 Suspense - "Wet Saturday" June 24th 1942