Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Keywords: Mystery, Thriller, Cold War

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Julie Andrews	Actor	1-Oct-1935		Mary Poppins
Lila Kedrova	Actor	9-Oct-1918	16-Feb-2000	Zorba the Greek
Paul Newman	Actor	26-Jan-1925		Salad dressing magnate

REVIEWS

Review by anonymous (posted on 30-Jan-2007)

Definitely one of Alfred Hitchcock's more underrated films, probably because of the suspect casting of Paul Newman as a physics professor and Julie Andrews as his rather one-dimensional assistant-scientist fiancee. (In my view, both gave creditable performances.) But this film shines magnificent in two areas: Hitchcock's use of suspense (quiet, relentless murder in a farmhouse; bad guys creeping ever closer in a crowd; professor at a chalk board oblivious to ... well, I won't give it away), and stellar character acting by Wolfgang Kieling (KGB agent Gromek), Ludwig Donath (Professor Lindt), and Carolyn Conwell (farmer's wife). But among these outstanding performances, who stole the show? Lila Kedrova in a cameo as the eccentric Countess Kuchinska. Thirty years after I saw this film at a theater, I had to track it down on and buy it on VHS just to watch her performance again. During the cafe sequence, Newman has a reaction shot in which it is just as likely that HE is expressing awe at Kedrova's performance as his character is registering amazement at the Countess's eccentricities. After writing this, I just gotta go home and watch it again. -JHC

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