Name: THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK FILM SERIES
Start: 2024-11-17T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-17T17:00:00-04:00
Location: The Carolina Theatre of Durham

ALFRED HITCHCOCK FILM SERIES
Sundays at 2pm in Cinema One | Tickets $12 per person
WEBSITE: https://carolinatheatre.org/series/alfred-hitchcock-film-series/
July 28
ROPE
(1948, 80 min)
James Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall star in this macabre spellbinder. Two thrill-seeking friends strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the “perfect murder”, their former teacher (Stewart) becomes suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.
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August 25
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
(1956, 120 min)
Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his own 1934 spy thriller stars James Stewart and Doris Day as American tourists who discover more than they wanted to know about an assassination plot. A chance encounter with a stranger sets their trip, and their lives, on a drastically different course. The stranger, killed in front of the family in the marketplace, reveals an assassination plot to the Americans. The couple's son is abducted in order to ensure the plot is kept secret, and suddenly the mother and father, with no help from the police, must figure out a way to get their child back.
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September 15
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
(1955, 99 min)
Hitchcock’s black comedy concerns a pesky corpse that becomes a problem for a quiet, Vermont neighborhood. Shirley MacLaine makes her film debut as one of several characters who keep burying the body and finding it unburied again. Hitchcock clearly enjoys conjuring the autumnal look and feel of the story, and he establishes an important, first-time alliance with composer Bernard Herrmann, whose music proved vital to the director's next half-dozen or so films.
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October 6
THE BIRDS
(1963, 119 min)
“The Birds” follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, “The Birds” is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence and complacency.
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November 17
VERTIGO
(1958, 128 min)
James Stewart plays a retired police detective who is hired by an old friend to follow his wife (Kim Novak), whom he suspects of being possessed by the spirit of a dead madwoman. The detective and the disturbed woman fall in love and...well, to give away any more of the story would be criminal. Shot around San Francisco and elsewhere in Northern California in rapturous Technicolor, “Vertigo” is as lovely as it is haunting.
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December 8
I CONFESS
(PG, 1953, 95 min)
Montgomery Clift stars in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller about a priest on trial for murder whose only defense would violate the sanctity of the real killer's confession. In the confessional of his parish, Father Logan (Clift) hears the church sexton whisper: "I killed a man." Father Logan's vows prevent him from breaking the sanctity of the confessional and allow the killer to go free. But as the police investigate the murder, all the evidence points to Father Logan. Now, to remain true to his vows, Father Logan will possibly convicted for murder.