Word: hitchcocks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...president and controlling stockholder of Alleghany Corp., the vast holding company whose assets include control of the New York Central and the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services, the biggest U.S. mutual fund group. Despite this considerable power, quiet courtly Allan Kirby habitually wears the look of a doleful Alfred Hitchcock-and last week he had his reasons. Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison and his two sons, once Kirby's partners in Alleghany (TIME, Sept. 19), are trying to take Alleghany away from him in what was shaping up as the biggest proxy fight in many a year...
Miss Bardot's attempts to find the real murderer produce reactions ranging from catcalling laughter to a commendable degree of tension. Where the heroine of an Alfred Hitchcock movie would creep inquisitively into a fruit cellar, Miss Bardot pursues her suspicions into an attic, and although the only person she finds there is a police officer also investigating the crime, the classic suspense formula nevertheless brings forth some tight moments...
...Steps (Rank; 20th Century-Fox) suggests that if few figures in the movie world can fill Alfred Hitchcock's trousers, fewer still are qualified to retrace his Steps. The 1935 Hitchcock version of The 39 Steps that starred Madeleine Carroll and the late Robert Donat was a sensitively controlled crescendo of excitement-perhaps the best .chase picture of its generation. The new version, directed by Britain's Ralph (Doctor in the House) Thomas, is simply a pleasant little comedy of murders...
...safe assumption that most moviegoers and or TV viewers have seen the Hitchcock original at least once. Director Thomas has played down the suspense, played up Scenarist Fred Harvey's daffy dialogue and laid on the De Luxe color with a heavy hand. The pace and direction are intelligently managed, and the only major problem arises in the major roles. Actress Elg. unlike her predecessor in the part, doesn't quite sustain the sex interest: she can't seem to decide whether she is supposed to look chased or chaste. And Actor More, with his usual cheery...
...when he realized that his whole life would have to change. The son of a wealthy Cleveland corporation lawyer, Philip Johnson was majoring in Greek and philosophy, but the piece on modern architecture came as a revelation. It had been written by a young Vassar professor named Henry-Russell Hitchcock-a man who was to become famous as an art scholar, and who inadvertently put Johnson on the path of becoming one of the most unusual architects...