Tuesday, May 5, 7:00 pm - North by Northwest
Tuesday, May 12, 7:00 pm - Dial M for Murder
Tuesday, May 19, 7:00 pm - The Birds
Tuesday, May 26, 7:00 pm - Vertigo
Throughout a career spanning over 50 years and more than 50 movies, director Alfred Hitchcock returned time and again to a single figure: the "Hitchcock Blonde."
Cool and composed, icy and elegant, she became his favorite obsession. Under Hitchcock's gaze, she is desired, pursued, and reshaped.
Join us at the Lincoln Theatre for four films which spotlight the quintessential Hitchcock Blonde archetype.
May 5: North by Northwest
When New York advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for a government spy, he's thrust into a cross-country chase involving spies, false identities, and ever-present danger.
As he struggles to clear his name, he meets Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint), an enigmatic blonde whose loyalties remain mysterious.
In Alfred Hitchcock's visually iconic film -- the crop duster! Mount Rushmore! -- Eve stands out not just as the Hitchcock Blonde ideal to be pursued but as an active participant in a world of deception.
"[Cary] Grant's technique, so well established, shines brightly under Hitchcock's guidance. The two seem completely en rapport in movie making. Miss Saint, effective in her former sweet or drab roles, makes the switch to glamour as a lovely Mata Hari type." —John L. Scott, Los Angeles Times, 1959
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Walter Landau
United States | English | 1959 | Thriller | 136 minutes | Approved
May 12: Dial M for Murder
The marriage between former tennis star Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) and his wealthy wife Margot (Grace Kelly) is the perfect union except for one little thing: Tony is plotting to kill Margot and take her fortune for his own.
When the plan goes awry, what follows is a tense battle of wits, as suspicion shifts and the truth proves elusive.
Margot is the Hitchcock Blonde at her most imperiled: poised, elegant, and in a tremendous amount of danger.
Projected in 3-D, as Hitchcock intended!
"Grace Kelly reaches out into the audience for murder scissors; foreground tea tables all but clonk your knees; a tell-tale door key - how many Hitchcock revelation moments feature those! - is brandished inches from your nose." —Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings
United States | English | 1954 | Thriller | 105 minutes | Approved
May 19: The Birds
A chance visit turns into a nightmare when Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) finds herself trapped in a coastal town under seige by The Birds. With no explanation or escape, the attacks only grow more relentless.
Tippi Hedren, as the Hitchcock Blonde, begins the film as composed as any other, but terror quickly erodes that surface as she's confronted by a threat that can't be reasoned with or controlled.
"Few films depict so eerily yet so meticulously the metaphysical and historical sense of a world out of joint." —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy
United States | English | 1963 | Horror | 119 minutes | PG-13
May 26: Vertigo
Hired to follow an old friend's wife, retired policeman Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) becomes dangerously entangled with Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak), a mysterious woman haunted by the past.
What begins as simple surveillance soon spirals into something far more consuming.
Kim Novak's blonde is the ultimate Hitchcock illusion: elegant, distant, and impossibly controlled image onto which desire is projected.
"Alfred Hitchcock tops his own fabulous record for suspense with Vertigo, a super-tale of murder, madness and mysticism." —Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
United States | English | 1958 | Psychological Thriller | 128 minutes | PG
Film Prices
Lincoln Theatre Members get $3.00 off on the following prices when buying tickets at-the-door:
General: $12.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $11.00
Children 12 and under: $9.50
All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs.