While home video did wonders for increasing film appreciation, I have to wonder if MGM’s embracing of the format for their old catalogue didn’t greatly hinder young people in the 1980s from learning about film. As a child, I had seen MGM, I had seen RKO, I had seen Warner Bros. But I never saw […]
Entries Tagged as 'Herbert Marshall'
The Razor’s Edge (1946, Edmund Goulding)
March 21st, 2006 No Comments
Foreign Correspondent (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
October 19th, 2005 No Comments
Well shit, I was wrong. I thought Foreign Correspondent was pre-Rebecca and I am incorrect.
I suppose the confusion has to do with the way Hitchcock made Correspondent. It’s very much in the style of his 1930s British films (I’m thinking primarily of The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes), while Rebecca was not. Rebecca was […]
