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Part of Six by the Master of Suspense! The Films of Alfred Hitchcock.
By popular demand, we present a new series of Film Talks on the works of legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock! From March through May, join Jeff Bender as he takes you through six landmark films that not only defined the director’s personal style, but shaped and continue to shape the artistry of modern cinema as we know it today. See them all on our big screen as originally intended, and in the case of three of them, as they were shown at the Westdale throughout its 90-year history!
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill is thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man named George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him, but when he tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets beautiful blonde Eve Kendall, who helps him evade the authorities. His world is turned upside-down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Nothing is as it seems, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore.
Jeffrey Bender
Jeffrey Bender has hosted a number of in-person and online Film Talks with the Westdale, most recently 'The Age of Innocence: Growing Up in the Movies', a selection of films about depictions of childhood and adolescence in Hollywood and international cinema. He joins us this spring to host 'Six from the Master of Suspense!', a six-film survey of the films of Alfred Hitchcock spanning more than three decades of this master filmmaker's career in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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