Need a little something to get you through April, the hump day of Spring?
Come join Marc Strauss, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in the College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University, and co-host Wellfleet Preservation Hall, and experience via Zoom four atypical Hitchcock films and get to know another side of Alfred Hitchcock. Complete with historically contextualized Introductions, showing of the film, and post-film discussion led by Marc.
Wednesday, March 31, 7 pm:
Jamaica Inn (1939; 1 hour, 48 minutes) is a British adventure thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Daphne du Maurier's 1936 novel of the same name. It stars Charles Laughton, Robert Newton, and Leslie Banks, and features Maureen O'Hara in her first major screen role. The film is a period costume piece set in Cornwall in 1819 in the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists, a pub on the edge of Bodmin Moor.
Free registration, donations gratefully accepted
Register HERE for 3/31
Among a host of masterpieces and just plain ripping-good stories, film director Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) remains primarily known as the Master of Suspense in movies that cleverly manipulate audiences through horror (Psycho, 1960; The Birds, 1963), spy “dramedies” (The Lady Vanishes, 1938; Notorious, 1946), and picaresque innocent-man-on-the-run thrillers (The 39 Steps, 1935; North by Northwest, 1959). Unbeknownst to most fans, Hitchcock explored other genres, too, including two Period Costume Dramas that took place in 1820 Cornwall and 1840s Australia, and two comedies, one Screwball and one dark tongue-in-cheek.
Here’s the rest of the series lineup:
Wednesday, April 7, 7 pm: Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), Hitchcock's only Screwball Comedy starring Robert Montgomery & Carole Lombard.
REGISTER HERE FOR 4/7
Wednesday, April 14, 7 pm: Under Capricorn (1949), a period costume drama set in 1840s Australia starring Ingrid Bergman & Joseph Cotten.
Wednesday, April 28, 7 pm: The Trouble with Harry (1955), a dark comedy during a Vermont autumn, stars Shirley MacLaine (in her first film), John Forsythe, Edmund Gwenn, and Jerry Mathers (years before he played the Beav on Leave it to Beaver).
