Those of us who aren’t English know Covent Garden from two great British films: George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard, 1938) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972). It is the vast wholesale marketplace in London to which fresh produce—“boxes of lettuce and baskets of mushrooms”—and botanical plants and flowers are brought daily from diverse […]
Daily Archives: February 21, 2008
The prevalent fear that characterized American life during the McCarthy era: this is the theme of one of the most gripping crime films of the fifties, The Hitch-Hiker. Naturally, those in the motion-picture industry who made the film were especially sensitive to fear that had been generated by the HUAC investigation of Hollywood and by […]
Dennis Grunes 