As an adult, Desmond Tester (the boy in this film) hosted a children’s show in Australia, where he introduced the Bee Gees in their first-ever TV appearance. At the time, Barry Gibb was the same age that Desmond was in this movie. As a regular viewer of the show I remember it clearly, and was surprised and delighted when a video clip of the event came up as a recommendation one night here on TH-cam.
A masterpiece! A thrilling masterpiece that only Hitchcock could conjure up - and with so much successful savoir faire! Thanks a million for showing it!
Hitchcock was a genius and Oskar Homolka what an actor never a bad performance .Like all great actors its not his dialogue its his facial expression's and body language . A joy and pleasure to watch thank you
It’s sad to watch these old films because it reminds me that everyone in it is dead by now. Including the children, and the dogs and cats - and the fish in the aquarium!
I know what you mean, but there is another way to look at it. This film enables them to live on forever. That’s the beautiful thing about great art, it immortalises you.
This is an excellent Hitchcock, he is a master of suspense, and tonality. To see it in black and white brings out all the excellent tonality and enhances all those photographic angles. I would like to talk about the picture more but it would ruin the suspense.
Hitchcock said he ruined the suspense. (Dick Cavett) But that's what happened in the book, which wasn't ruined because of the different medium. The book amazes me. Written in 1907, It's incredibly cinematic.
Great snapshot of London street life in the 30's. I wondered when it was that Hitchcock started making cameo appearances in the beginning of his films.
Did Hitchcock make a cameo in this one? If he did I didn't catch it. If so, would you mind posting the time signature? Always fun to check those out. Thanks.
@@yasua7000 Thanks for the tip! Looks like he did a wee bit of acting (or rather reacting) and not just a stroll through the scene. Very Hitchcockian...
ONLY in original edit, fantaatic cinema and first class eye/cinematography....have seen thia maaterpiece several times. dont spoil it with colour, in my humble opinion, and thanks for airing one of cinemas efforts to bring the viewer into the storey of each scene!...just fabolous from CCC 👍🏾😋
@moviemakerjo6756 Hi! Just in case, when you stumble upon a colorized movie, go to the description box. If we also have it available in black and white, you will find the direct link there. Hope this helps! Big part of the community really enjoys color, while others just B&W ; )
Oscar Homolka as Verloc was the perfect choice with the deep eyebrows... one of the most memorable lines... after killing his young brother-in-law he comments "Perhaps if we had a kid of our own" as though this would solve all his crimes... and the inclusion of Disney's "Cock Robin"... brilliant.
I just turned this on for background noise while I did my chores, needless to say chores did not get done. LOL This movie grabbed me from the start. I learned some things to, like roasted bullocks, a half a bull roasted over a fire pit, yeah that sounds good to me. And strawberry jam and tomato sauce. I have never heard of that, but I guess it's a thing. It might be really good. I read that a restaurant in NY uses it on a shrimp dish, 20% tomato sauce, and 80% strawberry jam.
As an American, I sometimes have trouble understanding the spoken lines of actors in the British films, as in this one, but I never pass up on the opportunity to watch a movie by Hitchcock. He never misses! 🎦
Actually, the public WAS shocked by the murder of a young child. Perhaps today, with its often skewed priorities, the reaction would be as you say, but definitely not then. Incidentally, the explosion on the bus was real, which wasn't common in film making at the time, but Hitchcock felt that it would add to the suspense and shock value. 😊
When I was a kid, I was hanging about the big red cement mail box just at stairway entrance to Picadilly Circus Tube entrance. Waiting for my parents to come out of hotel. I'm an American from Boston. A number of hours later we were in Liecester Square, and heard that a bomb had exploded in the same exact mailbox!!! Can't remember what year it was. Maybe 1970, 72, 74. Alot of such things have always gone on in London.
A good bit of foresight on the part of the writers, that's for sure!!! Five years... er, three years after this was made... well, we all know what happened.
"Simpson's" was there in 1936? I've eaten there. My older sister was with my parents and me. My father was appalled when she asked the waiter for Ketchup! Even I wasn't that uncouth. I think "Simpson's" is long gone, isn't it?
@@Cromwelldunbar well I googled it. Info says Simpson's is temporarily closed. One statement said it closed three years ago (or 4 years ago, March 2020) due to the virus. So I don't know if it reopened or if and when it's going to reopen. I was trying to check out the menu. It was difficult to read. I think it said they had a Sirloin Steak for just £22. But they don't have fries on the menu. "mash" must be mashed potatoes.
Why are the old black and white movies so much shorter ? Not complaining. Just observing. I actually like the length of these old movies. Much more than the movies today. Which I can easily lose interest in possibly because of my ADD but I just feel it's a more reasonable amount of time to be sitting and watching a movie without losing interest...
J'ai bien aimé, sauf que je n'ai pas trouvé le comportement de Silvia Sydney très crédible à la fin. Mais c'est peut-être moi. Aussi, le résumé du film donné dans la présentation ci-dessus n'est pas exact.
The Old, "Never trust the foreigners" and what was that about a mustache, when he was by the Turtles? The j's sure loved to beat the Wat drums early. Funny how fast she got over her brother's death? And wasn't the Detective, ever so sympathetic to her. about him? "Let's Run away, just you, and I?" lol
As an adult, Desmond Tester (the boy in this film) hosted a children’s show in Australia, where he introduced the Bee Gees in their first-ever TV appearance. At the time, Barry Gibb was the same age that Desmond was in this movie. As a regular viewer of the show I remember it clearly, and was surprised and delighted when a video clip of the event came up as a recommendation one night here on TH-cam.
I love reading about connections like that.
Thanks!
A masterpiece! A thrilling masterpiece that only Hitchcock could conjure up - and with so much successful savoir faire! Thanks a million for showing it!
Pre-Hollywood Hitchcock is always interesting to see like 39 Steps Lady Vanishes, and this film
I love, "The 39 Steps"!
Lifeboat. So good. Jamaica Inn. Lol❤❤
Hitchcock was a genius and Oskar Homolka what an actor never a bad performance .Like all great actors its not his dialogue its his facial expression's and body language . A joy and pleasure to watch thank you
Awesome! Thank you for broadcasting this classic from Alfred Hitchcock! I hope you will get to present more of his movies. He is a genius!
Such a great film! Oskar Homolka and Sylvia Sidney!
❤😊They ripped out the tape player!
Sylvia Sidney was also the grandmother in Mars Attacks ! Wow ! 👽
@@SpamMouse omg she was holy crap lol
What a classic. Great acting, cinematography, direction. It even has Mae West.
I almost make a positive comment that would been a spoiler. Great film. I'm so glad these older films are available today. Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for showing this, it fills a gap in my movie appreciation. All the hallmarks of the great Hitchcock.
That scene on the bus was suspense at its most gripping.
It’s sad to watch these old films because it reminds me that everyone in it is dead by now. Including the children, and the dogs and cats - and the fish in the aquarium!
Yep.
Gosh! I think about it too. Everything has its time under the sun. Our time will come too.
I know what you mean, but there is another way to look at it. This film enables them to live on forever. That’s the beautiful thing about great art, it immortalises you.
Not the cats too! This is so morbid but I can’t stop laughing 😂
Its all part of the life cycle🎉❤🎉
This is a great film. I love Sylvia Sidney!
I do too.
I had never seen this movie before and wow I just thought it was wonderfully made, great actors.
I was pretty sure that I had seen this film before, but I guess I hadn't.
This is an excellent Hitchcock, he is a master of suspense, and tonality. To see it in black and white brings out all the excellent tonality and enhances all those photographic angles. I would like to talk about the picture more but it would ruin the suspense.
Hitchcock said he ruined the suspense. (Dick Cavett) But that's what happened in the book, which wasn't ruined because of the different medium. The book amazes me. Written in 1907, It's incredibly cinematic.
What a GREAT movie! A masterpiece. Thanks for posting!
The ending is brilliant!
Brilliant thriller. One of the best.
Sylvia Sidney was also the grandmother in Mars Attacks ! Wow ! 👽
What a lovely character and nature the truly beautiful Sylvia Sidney was blessed with!
Great snapshot of London street life in the 30's. I wondered when it was that Hitchcock started making cameo appearances in the beginning of his films.
Did Hitchcock make a cameo in this one? If he did I didn't catch it.
If so, would you mind posting the time signature? Always fun to check those out.
Thanks.
@@kevinquinn1993 I was also wondering if he made an appearance in this one.
@@kevinquinn19938:56 the man looking up at the lights.
@@yasua7000 Thanks for the tip! Looks like he did a wee bit of acting (or rather reacting) and not just a stroll through the scene.
Very Hitchcockian...
ONLY in original edit, fantaatic cinema and first class eye/cinematography....have seen thia maaterpiece several times. dont spoil it with colour, in my humble opinion, and thanks for airing one of cinemas efforts to bring the viewer into the storey of each scene!...just fabolous from CCC 👍🏾😋
@moviemakerjo6756 Hi! Just in case, when you stumble upon a colorized movie, go to the description box. If we also have it available in black and white, you will find the direct link there. Hope this helps! Big part of the community really enjoys color, while others just B&W ; )
@@CultCinemaClassicsdon't watch solarbabies 😂
Yay, black and white!! So appreciate that you give us the choice.
colorization is vandalism
Oscar Homolka as Verloc was the perfect choice with the deep eyebrows... one of the most memorable lines... after killing his young brother-in-law he comments "Perhaps if we had a kid of our own" as though this would solve all his crimes... and the inclusion of Disney's "Cock Robin"... brilliant.
Excellent movie 😊
I just turned this on for background noise while I did my chores, needless to say chores did not get done. LOL
This movie grabbed me from the start. I learned some things to, like roasted bullocks, a half a bull roasted over a fire pit, yeah that sounds good to me. And strawberry jam and tomato sauce. I have never heard of that, but I guess it's a thing. It might be really good. I read that a restaurant in NY uses it on a shrimp dish, 20% tomato sauce, and 80% strawberry jam.
This is an amazing insight to a genius who was frighteningly ahead of his time
Me gusta cuando suben al colectivo en marcha...me recuerda en Uruguay en los 60'gracias.muy linda película 🎥
Sir Alfred does it again! What a great movie.
There is some darned fine whistling in this flick!
Another classic thriller. Thanx.
That twist in the end ....nice job all worked out in the end
SVP le crime presque parfait alfred d'alfred merci beaucoup.
As an American, I sometimes have trouble understanding the spoken lines of actors in the British films, as in this one, but I never pass up on the opportunity to watch a movie by Hitchcock. He never misses! 🎦
Me too as I'm Australian, so I put the subtitles on.
Thank you for 😊
Ask not for echo rthe bell tolls😊
Who
Oh yea. I remember this. Its a good one.
i have it on DVD. great film! one of my favs from Hitch
8:56 - Hitch's cameo, looking up as the lights cameo back on.
Masterpiece. ⬅
Wonderful filmmaking. Thanks
Excellent👏👏
❤se for legendado também assistirei obrigada 🇧🇷
25:40 Sounds like the voice of Hitchcock over dubbing the address of the bird shop in Islington
Desmond Tester here as the young boy who’s blown up, was later an adult TV star. Charles Hawtrey cameo at the Zoo.
Muito obrigado pela postagem 😃
Great Hitchcock film. He was the master of suspense. Thank you
Genius exposition. One of the hardest things to do in screenwriting
There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady. John F. Kennedy
Are you sure it wasn't "send FOR a lady'? 😅
This film caused outrage at the time: not for killing the kid, but for
killing the pet!
Actually, the public WAS shocked by the murder of a young child. Perhaps today, with its often skewed priorities, the reaction would be as you say, but definitely not then. Incidentally, the explosion on the bus was real, which wasn't common in film making at the time, but Hitchcock felt that it would add to the suspense and shock value. 😊
The beauty of black &white film can never be replaced.
Excellent
Seen this movie a while ago 👍🏾
Love Hitchcock🎉❤
Well made suspense thriller
Excellent movie!
superb!
Great movie.
Vaja joya, Muchas gracias,
🥰Thank you 🥰Great movie 👍Great cast 🥰
Thx CCC 👍🇺🇸👍
Young Silvia Sydney WOW as always 💥
Sylvia Sidney was also the grandmother in Mars Attacks ! Wow ! 👽
Se for legendado, assistirei... 🌹
Ola @mariaaparecidamorini5898 ! Sim, haverá legendas em português disponíveis. Espero vê-lo ao vivo para a estreia!
I have to watch this movie later😊
When I was a kid, I was hanging about the big red cement mail box just at stairway entrance to Picadilly Circus Tube entrance. Waiting for my parents to come out of hotel. I'm an American from Boston. A number of hours later we were in Liecester Square, and heard that a bomb had exploded in the same exact mailbox!!! Can't remember what year it was. Maybe 1970, 72, 74. Alot of such things have always gone on in London.
Ignore the year this is a brilliant film.
Class
When did Hitch start his brief cameo appearances in every film❓️. Eye never see him in the older ones 🤔
نرجو ترجمه فلم اللغه العربيه
A happier ending than Joseph Conrad's ending.
A Hitch gem; good print.
comments comments Hitchcock Early Effort, love it love it. will check out on another non-Work night. good Post!
Enjoyed this Hitchcock, even if the ending was a little too convenient.
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A good bit of foresight on the part of the writers, that's for sure!!!
Five years... er, three years after this was made... well, we all know what happened.
Her sitting on a chair and his feet on the floor great camera work
In 1942, Hitchcock directed a movie in the US called Saboteur. It was nothing like this one.
@@steveblundell7766 Yeah I hate both films hahaha
"Simpson's" was there in 1936? I've eaten there. My older sister was with my parents and me. My father was appalled when she asked the waiter for Ketchup! Even I wasn't that uncouth. I think "Simpson's" is long gone, isn't it?
Oh, "Simpson's" first opened in 1828, but closed in March 2020. A reopening date may be announced sometime in 2024.
@@aspenrebel Thanks: didn’t know it closed; might that have been caused by the Covid period ie lack of custom?
@@Cromwelldunbar well I googled it. Info says Simpson's is temporarily closed. One statement said it closed three years ago (or 4 years ago, March 2020) due to the virus. So I don't know if it reopened or if and when it's going to reopen. I was trying to check out the menu. It was difficult to read. I think it said they had a Sirloin Steak for just £22.
But they don't have fries on the menu. "mash" must be mashed potatoes.
Maybe I was thinking of "Stone's Chop House" as being long gone and closed. I had eaten there too. I liked that place.
Watched.
Wow, that Hitchcock worked with Disney, before he ever went to Hollywood...interesting. Excellent film.
Filmaço!!!
Does Hitchcock make an appearance here too, or was that something he only started later on in his career?
...and they lived traumatically ever after. The End
Based on Joseph Conrads "The secret agent" I think.
I liked the puppy!
With ketchup?
I bet his name was.................
Aaah the good old days, when cops knocked at the door until you opened it up.
Excellent film. Thanks for posting it. But if it is a noir, it would be classified as a proto noir
Why are the old black and white movies so much shorter ? Not complaining. Just observing. I actually like the length of these old movies. Much more than the movies today. Which I can easily lose interest in possibly because of my ADD but I just feel it's a more reasonable amount of time to be sitting and watching a movie without losing interest...
Uncle Chris in I Remember Mama
wasn't this guy the crazy uncle in a film with Barbara Bel Geddes?
In the 1930s power outages were commonplace. These folks act as though they've never had to cope with the associated problems.
J'ai bien aimé, sauf que je n'ai pas trouvé le comportement de Silvia Sydney très crédible à la fin. Mais c'est peut-être moi.
Aussi, le résumé du film donné dans la présentation ci-dessus n'est pas exact.
Who did the shifty character in the aquarium represent?
I got mixed up with saboteur
Homolka looked a bit like Simon Oakland... and I'm reeeaally dating myself 😂
The Old, "Never trust the foreigners" and
what was that about a mustache, when
he was by the Turtles?
The j's sure loved to beat the Wat drums early.
Funny how fast she got over her brother's death?
And wasn't the Detective, ever so sympathetic to
her. about him? "Let's Run away, just you, and I?" lol
Walrus
Hitchcock gave this grim tale a happier ending.
1 £ 30 p for three steaks. These were the days!!!
❤✨️🙏🏿
As Electric as Hitchcock.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✨️⭐️💯🇵🇪🙋🏻♀️
READ THE BOOK.
1936? Then why soonafter in the 1950s did Hitch repeat himself with the Bob Cummings version?
Money.