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Sir Alfred Hitchcock, the undisputed master of murder, mayhem and the macabre, always said that his mission in life was "to scare the hell out of people." Nobody did it better.

"Ridiculous." "Defies plausibility." "Blissfully divorced by logic." Then there are the contradictory comparisons.

Thankfully, Peter Gabriel realized the error of his ways: Would Lloyd Dobler be the same without In Your Eyes? Anniversaries offer time for reflection, and is there any medium more reflective than the silver screen? This week saw the release of two celebratory reissues: Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest turns 50; Cameron Crowe's Say Anything ...

Watching North By Northwest for what must be that 10th time, I was struck as much by how totally absurd Ernest Lehman's screenplay is.

"NORTH BY NORTHWEST'' Knowing a hawk from a handsaw Cary Grant stands along an utterly exposed stretch of prairie highway, only slowly realizing why a distant crop duster seems to be taking such a curious flight path.

There are plenty of Alfred Hitchcock references in the national tour of the stage version of "The 39 Steps." The show launches its national tour at The Shubert Theatre in New Haven in Thursday.

Les Diaboliques -- Who's Alfred Hitchcock? That's a question most people would probably chuckle at, expecting the person to either be joking or having lived under a rock for the entire 20th century.

As the 1950s rolled in director King Vidor's brilliant but eccentric pictures became much more eccentric than brilliant.

SIFF Cinema screens six Alfred Hitchcock gems in conjunction with Seattle Repertory Theatre's presentation of "The 39 Steps." On screen: "Rear Window," "Vertigo," "Dial M for Murder," "Strangers on a Train," "The 39 Steps" and "Shadow of a Doubt."

With the successful Alfred Hitchcock summer series almost wrapped up, the Main Library has gone ahead and announced the theme for its fall film series.

Shot in Namibia's Skeleton Coast during the death throes of Apartheid, Dust Devil is a challenging cross-genre mix of sociopolitical critique and perhaps too-personal exploration of shamanic mythology and consciousness.

Discovered by Samuel Goldwyn while still a high school student, Farley Granger has bee-stung lips and soulful looks and was immediately plugged into "The North Star" , a propaganda film of World War II, in which.... Discovered by Samuel Goldwyn while still a high school student, Farley Granger has bee-stung lips and soulful looks and was ...

For many years, this marvelous 1943 thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock 's most underrated American films, even though its sinister portrayal of small-town life prefigures such twisted-Americana faves as The Naked Kiss and Blue Velvet .

Strangers on a Train 06/10/2009 Genre: Thriller Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock Perhaps none of Alfred Hitchcock's 1950s films is quite as intense as Strangers on a Train .

The Boston area offers an interesting assortment this weekend as local favorite Kathy St.

You know those conversations with strangers that you have on a train, plain, or bus that help pass the time? Well, in "Strangers on a Train," one of those innocent chats ends with murder and madness, a perfect subject for the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film.

Robert Serrell, who stars in "Strangers on a Train" starting Thursday at Stoneham Theatre, had trouble remembering his lines.

Not counting Rope , this fiendishly delightful psychological thriller might be Hitchcock's gayest movie.