Alberto Cavalcanti Articles
Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA, Gene Tierney's DRAGONWYCK, Horror Omnibus DEAD OF NIGHT on TCM
Michael Redgrave in the "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" segment in Dead of Night (top); Gene Tierney in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Dragonwyck (middle); Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (bottom) Turner Classic Movies' horror/mystery/suspense Halloween marathon kicks off this evening with a showing of the 1945 British classic Dead of Night, which, 65 years later, remains one of the best efforts in the psychological-horror genre. [...]
Best Films – 1947

Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, David Farrar in Black Narcissus FILM Black Narcissus d, scr: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Cheyenne d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Alan Le May, Thames Williamson Crossfire d: Edward Dmytryk; scr: John Paxton Down to Earth d: Alexander Hall; scr: Edwin Blum, Don Hartman The Ghost and Mrs. Muir d: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; scr: Philip Dunne Life with Father d: Michael Curtiz; [...]
Best Films – 1945

Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter FILM Blithe Spirit d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward Boule de suif / Angel and Sinner d: Christian-Jaque; scr: Henri Jeanson Brief Encounter d: David Lean; scr: Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame Dead of Night d: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer; scr: John Baines, Angus MacPhail Les Enfants du paradis / Children [...]