Howard Smit

This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.

A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.

So how can a swinging bachelor learn a lesson about love? As magazine publisher Michael Green celebrates his big 4-0, he finds a bikini-clad Sandy Benson wrapped in a big bow as a birthday present supposedly courtesy of his drinking buddies. After trading barbs with the former beauty pageant winner, they find they have an attraction of sorts and she sticks around. Romance abounds as this country girl goes looking for romance in the big city in a typical television romantic comedy fashion.

When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts.

Una joven muere en un colegio privado. Parece un suicidio, pero su hermana descubre que el centro es la sede de macabros ritos satánicos. En el año 2000 se hizo un remake para televisión (Satan School) protagonizado por Shannen Doherty.

Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.

Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There, she must fight a battle on two fronts: against the medical conditions endangering her patients and against sexism toward a female doctor.

La familia de Paxtum sufre un atentado en su propio rancho, su hijo es asesinado y su hija es secuestrada. Paxton quiere encontrar al responsable de este horrible hecho y para ello contrata a Zeke Smith, un rastreador, un arrogante profesional, para ayudarle en su búsqueda y así saldar la cuenta pendiente...

The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.

En un oscuro futuro superpoblado, donde a cada pareja sólo se permite tener un niño y donde las personas mayores de 65 años tienen prohibida la atención médica bajo un conjunto muy draconiano de leyes, una pareja joven, embarazada de su segundo hijo (el primero murió poco después de nacer) intentan conseguir la ayuda de un anciano ex senador de los EE.UU. para ayudarles a escapar a Canadá.

La cómoda vida de un soltero se ve de repente interrumpida por la aparición de un adolescente que dice ser su hijo.

Dos razas diferentes de extraterrestres están en guerra. Representantes de cada raza han aterrizado en la Tierra para continuar luchando aquí, han tomado forma humana y solo pueden ver a otros extraterrestres mediante el uso de unas gafas especiales.

During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!

Marnie es una embustera y una ladrona compulsiva que se sirve de su trabajo como secretaria para robar. Cuando Mark Rutland la contrata, no sólo no abandona sus delictivos hábitos, sino que, además, se comporta de manera absolutamente desquiciada. A pesar de todo, Mark, cediendo a un impulso inexplicable, decide casarse con ella y averiguar las razones de su obsesivo comportamiento. Cuando un terrible accidente lleva a Marnie a una situación límite, Mark la obliga a enfrentarse a sus terrores cuyas raíces se hunden en el pasado.

Melanie, una joven rica y snob de la alta sociedad de San Francisco, conoce casualmente en una pajarería al abogado Mitch Brenner, que ha ido a comprar un regalo de cumpleaños para Kathy, su hermana pequeña. Mitch, que conoce por la prensa la alocada vida de Melanie, la trata despectivamente y se va de la tienda dejándola bastante irritada. Ella, que no está acostumbrada a que la traten así, encarga unos periquitos y los lleva a casa del abogado, pero Mitch se ha ido a pasar el fin de semana a casa de su madre. Entonces, Melanie decide ir a Bodega Bay y presentarse en casa de los Brenner con el pretexto de regalar los periquitos a Kathy. En cuanto ella llega, los pájaros, enloquecidos, empiezan a atacar salvajemente a los habitantes del lugar. La situación se agrava a medida que avanzan las horas.

A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.

Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of bigamy. She has an affair with gambler Gregg Delaney but marries his best friend, Johnny Hale, when she discovers Hale is the richest man in Texas. This loses her the respect of her sister, Janet, who loves Hale, and Delaney, who loves Violet. Meanwhile, town sheriff Bill Howard is working hard to get Delaney to confess to a murder.

A homicide detective suspects a playwright who bases his play on a murder.

Under the leadership of a cutthroat named Grif, a band of outlaws has systematically been robbing and murdering settlers bound for the large Chandler ranch which has been cut up into small parcels of land for purchase.

A singing cowboy proves his father is not a thief.

Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff but puts blanks in their guns. When they arrive someone else shoots the Sheriff and Chris is blamed and jailed. The Sheriff's brother then incites the mob to hang Chris.

A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.

Una noche, el matrimonio Palmer se dirige a una fiesta en su descapotable. A mitad de camino, Jane le ruega a su marido que vuelvan a casa. De regreso, se cruzan con un vehículo desde el que alguien lanza una maleta que cae en el asiento trasero del coche de los Palmer. La maleta está llena de dinero y los Palmer pretenden quedárselo, pero una serie de circunstancias hará que la suerte del matrimonio dure poco.

A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster.

An airplane carrying a pair of police officers escorting gangsters to prison crash-lands in the African jungle. They are rescued from an attack by savage natives by a white woman who appears out of nowhere, and it turns out she is a lost heiress who herself crash-landed in the jungle years before.

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.

Rocky Lane and his horse Black Jack must protect the gold which drought bedeviled ranchers have raised to build a dam from bad guy Smiling Jim.