Though this Alfred Hitchcock effort is about World War II-era spies who use romance as a deadly weapon, Notorious is remembered less as a thriller than a tragic love story. I suppose that’s what happens when you have Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the lead roles. Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, daughter of a German-American

Alfred Hitchcock once again implicates us, the audience, in this adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel about a tennis star (Farley Granger) who contemplates murder for about half of a second, and it proves to be half a second too long. On a train ride, Granger’s Guy Haines meets Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), one of

The movies’ first whack at Jack Finney’s 1954 serialized novel remains the best. When alien life forms try to take over the planet by replacing us with automaton look-alikes – walking vegetables that literally grow in pods – it’s up to a small-town doctor (an increasingly hysterical Kevin McCarthy) to fight the power. Director Don

This second attempt at a Body Snatchers movie may feature the silliest protagonist in science-fiction history: Donald Sutherland’s over-zealous San Francisco health inspector (for his entrance, he triumphantly identifies rat droppings in a pot of soup.) Such silliness – as well as Philip Kaufman’s ostentatious direction – undermines the insidious chill of the story’s conceit: