MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas), dies, and his daughter marries and leaves home. Now on his own, he decides to remarry with the help of his housekeeper, Minta (Lillian Hall-Davis). The women he chooses are too independent, too nervous or think he’s too old. You can see where this is going. Tibby and […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Easy Virtue (1928)
Based on the 1924 play by Noël Coward, this Alfred Hitchcock-directed movie opens with Larita Filton (Isabel Jeans) testifying at her divorce trial as she leaves her husband, Aubrey (Franklin Dyall). The scandal of it all is that Claude Robson (Eric Bransby Williams), an artist, is in love with Larita and a mistaken moment leads […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Champagne (1928)
Based on an original story by writer and critic Walter C. Mycroft, this was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who co-wrote it with Eliot Stannard. This is the second comedy that Hitchcock made after The Farmer’s Wife; he later voiced his unhappiness with the film in François Truffaut’s Hitchcock/Truffaut, saying that the movie had no story. During […]
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