Midnight Lace (1960)

Filled with Hitchcock alumni - Doris Day from The Man Who Knew Too Much and John Williams from Dial M For Murder, but alongside Rex Harrison, not James Stewart or Cary Grant - and about an American woman (Day), newly married and in London, in distress after she starts being stalked by a disembodied voice - first in a pea soup London fog, atmospherically, and then over a series of phone calls - this thriller directed by David Miller really feels like a classic Hitchcock: London, too, with its double deckers, phone boxes, opera performances, and pubs, and while thriller fans will know where it's heading, there are a few well-handled surprises in the end.

★★★★☆

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Dial M For Murder (1954)

Generally, I'm not mad on murder mysteries or thrillers that hinge on logistical matters like times and places, alibis, who was where when, and so I don't get excited about the logic problem of keys and doors at the heart of this classic Hitchcock, but watching the visciously cool Ray Milland pitting wits with John Williams' Inspector Hubbard is thrilling, and especially enjoyable if you are lucky enough to see this in a cinema in its intended 3D.

★★★★★

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