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Old 07-19-2018, 07:43 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
Not much compares to Shadow of a Doubt. But if we're talking B&W Hitchcock, how about a little love for Sabotage, with Oskar Homolka and Sylvia Sidney? It includes an incredibly suspenseful segment involving a little boy unknowingly transporting a bomb on a bus. My favorite scene shows a wife serving dinner to her husband and thinking about picking up the knife on the table ...

And, of course, Psycho is a classic.
The mention of Oskar Homolka reminded me of the Carol Reed directed film, The Key. This was from a short story by Jan de Hartog and the film copied the book very closely. Staring Sophia Loren, William Holden and Trevor Howard it is unusual and excellent. Homolka has a small part as did Bernard Lee - "M" in the early 007 films. . If you like movies and Sophia don't miss this one. I understand it received poor reviews when it was released in 1958 and now is a bit of an undiscovered classic. De Hartog wrote very good sea stories and I regret that none of them are in ebook format.

The Key may have been originally titled The Distant Shore. I read it in a book by that title many years ago.
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