Joan Harrison
1) Suspicion
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Alfred Hitchcock weaves a terrifying web of suspicion around a fragile young English bride and captures a classic suspense thriller. Joan Fontaine is the bride, a gently-reared heiress who fears she has married a murderer. Cary Grant is the husband, a dashing ne'er-do-well with a penchant for the high life--and a bank account that's strictly low-life.
2) Rebecca
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
3) Phantom lady
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An aging bachelor in a small New England town, Harry Quincey finds love when a New York fashion designer visits the fabric mill where Harry works. But Harry's long-overdue chance at happiness is thwarted by his neurotic sister Lettie, who uses her physical ailments as a means of controlling her kind-hearted brother. When Harry proves himself serious about leaving the family home, Lettie goes to shocking extremes to keep him under her thumb.
5) Saboteur
Language
English
Description
Barry Kane is a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York's Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock's first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding...
6) Phantom lady
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
7) Suspicion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Well-to-do wallflower Lina McLaidlaw is in love, perhaps in danger. She suspects that Johnnie Aysgarth, the playboy who swept into her life and married her, is a murderer and that she may be his next victim.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Glass key: "Ed Beaumont ... is the loyal right-hand man of Paul Madvig ... , a slightly corrupt politician who is accused of murder"--Container.
Phantom lady: "Carol Richman ... attempts to clear her boss ... of a murder he did not commit"--Container.
Blue dahlia: "A WWII veteran ... is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger"--Container.
9) Jamaica Inn
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Maureen O'Hara's first film is the brooding story of a nobleman who leads a cutthroat ship-looting band of men. Charles Laughton is a magnificent villain and Hitchcock glories in the moody atmosphere.
10) Jamaica Inn
Publisher
Laserlight
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An Irish orphan girl (Mary) ... lives on the rugged coast of Cornwall with her uncle. After several vessels smash on the deadly rocks, Mary begins to suspect it's more than accidental. By the time she realizes what's going on, she is a target for the marauding smugglers and highwaymen who are ravaging the area.
11) Rich and strange
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[Rich and Strange] Instead of waiting for their inheritance, Fred and Emily Hill ask for it in advance. Their rich uncle surprisingly obliges. They set out to use the money in the best possible way--by spending it.
[The sorcerer's apprentice] An innocent boy becomes the pawn in a deadly circus game gone awry.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A dirty rotten scoundrel sponges off his wealthy wife, seduces and abandons another woman and runs off with a third. Returning home, he plots to murder his wife and get away with her money, but a series of ironic plot twists leave him battling for his life"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A riveting wartime thriller following an innocent man who suddenly finds himself in a very deadly situation. After aircraft factory worker Barry Kane witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, he finds himself falsely accused of sabotage and killing his best friend. To clear his name, Kane begins a relentless cross-country chase that takes him from Los Angeles to Boulder Dam and New York's Radio City Music Hall. The suspense builds to a climactic...
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
15) Jamaica Inn
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this dark period drama set in 1819 in Cornwall, a young woman discovers her uncle heads a gang of ship-wreckers and murderers under the secret patronage of the local squire, wickedly played by Charles Laughton. Her efforts to stop their wicked ways leads her down a path filled with murder and betrayal.
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Suspicion: Well-to-do wallflower Lina McLaidlaw is in love, perhaps in danger. She suspects that Johnnie Aysgarth, the playboy who swept into her life and married her, is a murderer and that she may be his next victim.
I Confess: Father Michael Logan hears a killer's confession. Eyewitnesses then point to a priest as the murderer, and the sacrament of penance forbids Logan to speak out, even in his own defense, when circumstantial evidence targets...
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A tough-talking former GI comes to a small New Mexico town to shake down a gangster who killed his best friend; events turn out neither as planned nor at all well.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Suspicion": A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her. "Strangers on a train": A psychotic socialite attempts to force a professional tennis star to prove a theory that two complete strangers can get away with murder. "I confess": A priest who comes under suspicion for murder cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional. "Dial M for murder": A tennis player frames...