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Rear Window Dir. Alfred Hitchcock 1954 Alfred Hitchcock amply demonstrates why he's been called The Master of Suspense with this both witty and macabre tale of voyeurism and murder starring two of cinema's all time favourites James Stewart and Grace Kelly. L. B.Jeffries Stewart a photographer with a broken leg takes up the fine art of spying on his Greenwich Village neighbours during a summer heat wave. But things really hot up when he suspects one neighbour of murdering his invalid wife and burying the body in a flower garden. High Noon Dir. Fred Zinnemann 1952 Gary Cooper is Hollywood's perfect hero the very embodiment of integrity and grace in this greatest of Westerns. As a newly married town marshal he must balance an innate sense of justice and duty with loyalty to his beautiful new and pacifist bride when he is left by an ungrateful town to face a gang of deadly outlaws alone. As we watch spellbound film time is real time as the showdown grows ever closer. High Noon is a masterpiece that is frequently interpreted as a parable about artists left to stand alone and face persecution during the HUAC Hollywood blacklisting. However Howard Hawks allegedly devised Rio Bravo as an answer to the film's wimpiness and John Wayne once declared High Noon as un American he was apparently offended by the ending of the film which shows Sheriff Kane removing his badge and tossing it in the dirt. Grace Kelly Story Documentary A documentary looking at the life and career of Grace Kelly. Available on DVD for the first time.
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