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FIVE FINGERS is a highly absorbing WWII thriller about a spy selling British secrets to the Germans.

The Cool Channel Blu-Ray Review: North by Northwest Posted by J.D. Dunn on 11.10.2009 Hitchcock's seminal thriller receives a proper restoration.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 12:27 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 12:27 p.m. "That's funny." INFO BOX "North by Northwest - 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition" 4 stars Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writer: Ernest Lehman ...

What happens when a dashing ad agency exec is mistaken for a U.S. secret agent, chased across the continent by enemy spies, tempted by the beautiful woman he meets on a train, chased down by a machinegun wielding, crop-dusting plane, and dangled from the faces of Mount Rushmore? Alfred Hitchcock at one of his finest moments is what happens, and it ...

Our review of North By Northwest , published December 18th, 2000, is also available.

THE MAN IN GREY is a British Regency Era melodrama from Gainsborough Pictures, starring a powerhouse quartet of actors: James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, and Phyllis Calvert.

Video Event of the Week: Is it the Miramax DVD of Cheri , Stephen Frears ' oddly overlooked 2009 adaptation of two Colette stories, starring the still toothsome Michele Pfeiffer ? Could BBC/Warner's Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection , featuring remastered versions of all twelve episodes of John Cleese 's classic britcom conceivably make the ...

Fifteen years before Roman Polanksi drugged and raped a 13-year-old, Stanley Kubrick directed James Mason and Sue Lyon through a similarly vile course in Lolita.

"The Lost Symbol," Dan Brown's sequel to "The Da Vinci Code," is a suspenseful labyrinth of plots, subplots, sub-sub-plots, codes and mysteries set in Washington, D.C. An enigma wrapped in a dilemma, wrapped in a health-care bill.

A Star Is Born feels like the epitome of Old Hollywood, with the most famous version of the story starring Judy Garland as a young ingenue and James Mason as the man who makes her famous as his career declines.

BigDog has four legs allowing it to traverse areas that wheeled or tracked vehicles cannot move across and carries a laser gyroscope and stereo vision system.

Dir. Carol Reed . James Mason is unforgettable as a doomed fugitive IRA gunman in Reed's extraordinary and eccentric film which begins as a straightforward thriller, then splurges into the surreal.

Movie buffs, prepare to feast upon a banquet of classic and rare films, celebrity guests and memorabilia marts at the 45th annual Cinecon film festival, which kicks off tonight and runs through Monday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

ODD MAN OUT'S re-issue this week at Film Forum coincides with the new DVD release of John Boorman's latest The Tiger's Tail and the recent, brief run of Melvin Van Peebles' Confessions of an Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha.

''Can't act. Slightly balding. Can dance a little." That's the infamous evaluation for Fred Astaire's first screen test that still draws chuckles today.

SHAWSHANK, Barbra Streisand, and Norman Wisdom trashing a hospital, in the film guide that's getting its long face lost.

OAN Elder might not have gained showbiz mega-stardom but in all her years as an actress, producer and teacher she's appeared in hundreds of roles on stage and screen.

A sleek black car slides down a rain-swept street. A desperate man waits in a bar, nursing a drink.

OAN Elder might not have gained showbiz mega-stardom but in all her years as an actress, producer and teacher she's appeared in hundreds of roles on stage and screen.

A sleek black car slides down a rain-swept street. A desperate man waits in a bar, nursing a drink.