Cards: Alfred Hitchcock who made 'Suspicion', 'Spellbound', 'Notorious', 'Rebecca'
to bring you a strange case of STAGEFRIGHT
Voice: (french voice lies over the english voice in the beginning of my dubbed trailer, then it follows like this)
"... a very heavenly body, a very suspicious body, and finally a very charming busy body. Who started out by getting tangled in the strings of a mystery and finished by getting tied up in the strings of his heart."
Cards: Jane WYMAN as a girl who led a Double life ... to expose a Double Cross !
Marlene DIETRICH, Michael WILDING, Richard TODD
(clips from film) "(?) all the trouble to protect my... reputation. Covering up the accident. Destroying that dreadful dress." "I didn't destroy it. So long as I have the dress, I'm the one who decides how long this show will run. Like anything else. Do you understand?" "You fool. There goes evidence that could have helped you." "We're not (?) against Charlotte. I'm doing all this for her, see. You're just jealous of her."
Marlene sings
(clips from film) "That sounds to me, remarkably like blackmail, I think I better call the police." "Yes, do call the police, Miss Inwood, we'll talk to them together." "Who are you ?"
Cards: The suspense-filled story of a back stage love affair, that led to a front page murder ! "STAGE FRIGHT"

37 STRANGERS ON A TRAIN		1951
Re-release Trailer	2.30  (on Warner Video)

Cards: A Speeding Train... A Chance Meeting... A Strange Toast... With these fibres of fate Alfred Hitchcock weaves the startling Adventure... that Marked one man´s Conscience with another man´s Evil!
(clip from film) "Two fellows meet, like you and I, no connection between them whatsoever. Each one has somebody that he´d liked to get rid of, so... they swop murders."
Voice: "Fantastic isn´t it? You didn´t know when Bruno, proposed this fact, that he was serious, dead serious. You had made the mistake of speaking to a stranger on a train. And now, wherever you go, whatever you do, you find yourself dominated by his evil presence. And you Bruno. To you, killing was the answer. Murder without clue, without motive. The perfect crime, too perfect. And Ann, life looked very attractive to you until the love in your heart became gripped by a terror that drew you deeper and deeper into this vortex of conspiracy."
Cards: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Re-release. With three striking personalities on an Exciting Journey into Suspense! Farley Granger. Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
(clips from film) "I don´t like to be double crossed, I have a murder on my conscience. But it´s not my murder, Mr. Haines." "I wonder if you know how much I love you." "B... woman, I´m the one to say that." "Hey hold it." (carousel)
Cards: STRANGER Than Any Fiction You Ever Read! STRANGER Than Any Picture You Ever Saw! STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. You´ll talk to your Friends about it! BUT you´ll Never talk to... STRANGERS ON A TRAIN!

38 I CONFESS			1953
Trailer		2.51

Alfred Hitchcock: (french voice lies over Hitchcock's voice in my dubbed trailer, then it follows like this)
Cards: (O.E. Hasse) "I Confess to a murder ... someone else must pay for!"
(Anne Baxter) "I Confess to a guilt ... that Shattered one man's LIFE - Another man's FAITH!"
(Karl Malden) "I Confess that I twisted the Evidence ... in order to twist a NOOSE!"
(clips from film) "Why were you being blackmailed?" "It don't care whom I hurt, as long as I answer all your questions." "I only want to clear a murder."
Voice: "Caught in a tangled web of murder, 3 people confessed to secrets that tortured their souls. But in the echoes and shadows of the ancient city of Quebec, Canada, walks a man who knows the whole terrifying truth but can never tell the strange things his ears have heard. For he... is sworn to silence, grim silence. That points the finger of suspicion at him. Crushing silence, that brings him the contempt of the people who loved and respected him. Deadly silence, that leads him to the 13 steps of the gallows."
Cards: Electrifying DRAMA, With the brand of Alfred Hitchcock burned into every scene. "I Confess"
Starring Montgomery CLIFT, Anne BAXTER, Karl MALDEN, Brian AHERNE
(clips from film) "Examining his stomach the doctors found that he could not have died before 11.30." "Doctor, who ?" "Madame Grandfort said that she left Father Logan at 11. A lot of things can happen in 30 minutes." "You're in love with me, you've always been in love with me, you haven't changed." "I have changed, Ruth, so have you." "You want me to protect that ?" "Do you understand, I chose to be what I am. I believe in what I am." "Well I'm not gonna talk about it now." "What do you want me to do ?" "Whatever you wish."
Cards: DARK - SO DARK the danger that engulfs these people...
STRANGE - SO STRANGE the conflict that grips their lives
Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess"

39 DIAL M FOR MURDER		1954
Trailer		2.33  (on Warner video)

(Close-up on telephone)
Cards: For Alfred Hitchcock´s Masterpiece of Mystery and Melodrama. DIAL M FOR MURDER.
From the stage play that held two continents spellbound with suspense! Listen... to the voice of critics´ praise...
Voice: The New York Times called it "King Lear with excitement."
Voice: The Detroit News said: "It´s the best crime play in years!"
Voice: The London Daily Mail headlined "A murder thriller with a difference."
Voice: The New York Daily Mirror wrote: "It holds your attention like a vice".
(clips from film) "Where´s the nearest policestation." "What could you tell them?" "I should simply tell them that you´re trying to blackmail me into..." "Into..." "Murdering your wife!
Voice: "Fantastic isn´t it? But you know he´s right, don´t you Tony? You´ve worked it out to the smallest detail. And this man is to be your murder weapon, for the perfect crime. And you Margot, you´ve been living dangerously, to dangerously, a married woman with a two-party line to your affections. And Mark, ironic isn´t it, that in this design for death, you should be selected to be the perfect alibi for the murder of the woman you love."
(clips from film) "Are you ever gonna tell Tony... about us" "No, I couldn´t possibly tell him, not now." "There is evidence however, that he was blackmailing you." "Blackmail?" "Yes, I´m afraid it´s true, Tony." "And you suggest that he came in by the window and we know that he came in by that door." "But he can´t have come in that way, that door was locked." "You could have let him in." (the murder scene)
Cards: "An experience in excitement that will twist your emotions into tight knots! Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson. DIAL M FOR MURDER. Color by WarnerColor.
A direct line to high tension drama you´ll never forget!

40 REAR WINDOW			1954
Re-release Trailer	2.38

(Hitchcock on the set) Voice: "This is the scene of the crime. A crime of passion filmed in a way you have never seen before and as no one else would dare attempt but the screen´s master of suspense. The producer director who shocked the world with... Psycho."
Cards: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart in Rear Window.
Voice: "This is the apartment of a man named Jeffries, a news photographer who´s (be.. ?) used to be the world. Right now his world has shrunk down to the size of this window. He´s been watching the people across the way. Nobody seems to pull their blinds during a hot spell like this. He knows a lot about them by now, too much perhaps. For instance, down there on the second floor, the woman pacing about. He calls her Miss Lonely Hearts, so lonely, that even death seems like a friend. These are the newlyweds, on a honeymoon no one will ever forget. He calls her Miss Hearing Aid, an artist of a very odd and strange art. The songwriter who plays the same melody over and over again. A genius or insane? This is the travelling salesman and his invalid wife. Out of their arguments and nagging comes a weird kind of love. Miss Torso, the body beautiful, that is, viewed from a safe distance."
James Stewart: "Those are just a few of my neighbors. First I watched them just to kill time, but then I couldn´t take my eyes off them, just as you won´t be able to..."
Voice: "And you won´t be able to take your eyes off the glowing beauty of Grace Kelly, who shares the heart and curiosity of James Stewart in this story of a romance shadowed by the terror of a horrifying secret."
Card: REAR WINDOW. The Suspense Masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock. The Screen´s Master of Suspense. Starring James Stewart. Co-starring Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter with Raymond Burr in REAR WINDOW. Technicolor. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A Paramount Re-release. See it! if your nerves can stand it after "PSYCHO" ... and see it from the beginning of course!

41 TO CATCH A THIEF		1955
Trailer 		1.54	(on SF Rush Video)

Cards: Invites You To Join, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on a Breathtaking Race. "To Catch A Thief".
Voice: "Cary Grant and this years Academy Award Winner Grace Kelly. Two exciting personalities who were made for each other and now Alfred Hitchcock brings them into very close contact in this perfect tale of romantic intrigue. Filmed on the beautiful French Riviera."
(clip from film) "You have a very strong grip, the kind a burglar needs." "That's why you came out here, isn't it ?"
Voice: "The scandalous romance that shocked even the blasé international set, between this restless, thrillhunting, american heiress and the notorious man of mystery the underworld called "The Cat". For the game they played was not for money, and the characters they played with, played for keeps. No one but Hitchcock could create such relentless excitement, filling the screen with fireworks as he matches the blazing talents of these two great stars, in the love affair of the year."
(clip from film) "Look John, hold them, diamonds. Have you ever had a better offer in your whole life. One with everything."
Cards: Who could ask for anything more? Cary Grant and Grace Kelly for Romance. Gorgeous Spectacle VistaVision and that Heart-stopping Hitchcock Suspense!
(clip from film) "Come down Robie, or we shall be forced to shoot."
Cards: "To Catch A Thief". Starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. With Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams. Photographed in VistaVision. Motion Picture High-Fidelity.

42 THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY	1956
Trailer 		2.38

Card: VistaVision. Motion Picture High-Fidelity.
Voice: "Come with us to beautiful New England as our VistaVision camera fills the screen with the gorgeous panorama of its scenic splendours. For this is that perfect moment in time when the magic wand of autumn touches its rolling historic hills and transforms them into a veritable wonderland of dazzling colours. Here we find the indian summer that the pilgrims gloried in. For now even as in that long distant day, mother nature offers its bounty for the thankful eyes of those fortunate enough to share it. In the charming little villages living with the heirlooms of their storied past. The azure waters of the tranquil lakes, a covered bridge spanning the lazy waters of a rippling stream, the golden boughs of a majestic maple shading the deep blue skies. And here in the peaceful woods every little boy is the monarch of all he surveys. His trusty space gun a deadly weapon to defend himself against the dangers of the unknown. A child at play. While all around him the countryside slumbers as quietly as... as this wayfaring stranger who is paused in this lovely glade for a restful nap in the sun. But wait a moment. Something´s wrong here. This man isn´t sleeping. He´s dead."
Cards: and Alfred Hitchcock did it... in a completely different way, for you´ve never seen anything like, THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY.
Voice: "The trouble with Harry is that he´s dead and one of these real nice people could have caused that trouble. Perhaps the sweet old sea-captain who actually wasn´t a very good shot, or the New England spinster, who would go to any lengths to defend her honor, or the enchanting red-head who had been Harry´s unkissed bride, or the unconventional artist who was mad about Harry´s widow, or the bum who needed a new pair of shoes, or the nearsighted surgeon who liked to read poetry out loud. Yes the unconventional Mr. Hitchcock has done it again, just as he did with Rear Window. Playing a most unusual story against a new and different background. And the only trouble is, you won´t stop laughing at THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY.
Cards: THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY. Starring Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, with Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock and Introducing Shirley MacLaine.
Alfred Hitchcock´s Comedy About A Body.

43 THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH	1956
Trailer		2.07

The Ambassador: "Ladies and gentleman, the famous Miss Doris Day has gladly consented to sing a few songs for us tonight."
Doris Day: "Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be, will be. The future´s not ours to see, Que Sera, Sera."
(clip from film) (gunshot)
James Stewart: "You´re right. That was a gunshot you heard. That was the signal that brought all the trouble out in the open. It´s a scene from our new picture THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. As you know, Alfred Hitchcock has a uncanning knack for coming up with the unusual in entertainment. Well, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH can certainly be put in that category. I play the part of an American doctor, Doris Day is my wife. And the story is about our trip abroad that started out as a holiday and ended up as a nightmare. And to film it Hitchcock took us thousands of miles away from Hollywood to Marrakesh, which is right in the centre of the North African trouble area. And that was just the beginning, from there we flew to London, for backgrounds of a whole strange series of events that ended up that final night in the great concert hall, where the cue for murder was one single crash of the cymbals."
(clips from film with music from Storm Cloud Cantata)
Cards: Alfred Hitchcock Strikes... The Highest Note of SUSPENSE... The Screen Has Yet ACHIEVED! "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Starring James Stewart, Doris Day in VistaVision.

44 THE WRONG MAN		1957
Prologue	0.34  (not really a trailer)

Alfred Hitchcock: This is Alfred Hitchcock speaking. In the past, I have given you many kinds of suspense pictures but this time, I would like you to see a different one. The difference lies in the fact, that this is a true story. Every word of it. And yet it contains elements that are stranger than all the fiction that has gone into many of the thrillers that I have made before.

Theatrical Trailer	2,26

Alfred Hitchcock: This is Alfred Hitchcock speaking. In the past I have introduced you to many kinds of people: Murderers, thieves, swindlers. Many of them geniuses of the business of crime. Now I'd like you to meet an entirely different person. An average sort of fellow who leads a very normal life. The big difference is that his story is true.
This is Manny Balestrero. Tucked away at the rear of the bandstand at the Stork Club in New York. He lived in a simple routine world. When the lights went out, the fiddler was put away. Then the same subway, the newspaper, home to Rose and the kids. Yes Manny's life was straight and narrow until the night of January the 14th, 1953, when ...
(clips from film)
"Are your name Christopher Emanuel Balestrero ?" "Yes it is." "We wanna speak to you, we're policeofficers." "What about?" "How do you explain it?" "I made a mistake" "So did the hold-up man, and it happens to be the same mistake." "Do you see the man who was in your office on July the 9th in this courtroom?" "Yes." "Can you step down and point him out to us?" "Right there"
Alfred Hitchcock: What twist of fate could take the quiet soul of a simple man, and wring it into a shape like this.
Cards: Every step a journey in Darkness. Every moment an eternity of Suspense. The WRONG MAN. Starring: HENRY FONDA as Manny Balestrero. VERA MILES as Rose Balestrero. "The WRONG MAN" Alfred Hitchcock's powerful portrait of a man... Drawn From Life!

45 VERTIGO			1958
Original Trailer	2.22  (on laserdisc)

Voice: "VERTIGO. a feeling of dizziness... a swimming in the head... figuratively a state in which all things seem to be engulfed in a whirlpool of terror. As created by Alfred Hitchcock in a story that gives new meaning to the word suspense."
Cards: VERTIGO. Starring James Stewart. Kim Novak.
(clip from film) "I don´t wanna die. There´s someone inside me and she says I must die. Oh Scottie, don´t let me go."
Voice: "A beautiful girl haunted by the desperate unexplainable urge to destroy herself. A man possessed by the paralysing vertigo that made him afraid of high places."
(clip from film) "Easy now" "I know, I know, it´s a cinch. I look up, I look down, I look up, I look ..."
Voice: "What was the strange attraction that brought these two together in spite of the dark forces that tore them apart. The spectre from the past that drew her to the ancient headstone in the mission graveyard. The compulsion that drove her relentlessly to the point of no return. The story of a love so powerful it broke down all barriers between past and present, between life and death. Between the golden girl in the dark tower and the tawdry redhead that he tried to remake in her image."
(clip from film) "If I let you change me, will that do it?. If I do what you tell me, will you love me?" "Yes" "Allright, I´ll do it. I don´t care anymore about me."
Cards: James Stewart as you´ve never seen him before. Kim Novak playing two amazing roles. Co-starring Barbara Bel Geddes, with Tom Helmore, Henry Jones. Only Hitchcock could weave this tangled web of terror!
Alfred Hitchcock´s VERTIGO. Technicolor. VistaVision.

Short Trailer		1.26  (on SF Rush Video)

Cards: VERTIGO. Starring James Stewart. Kim Novak.
Voice: "A beautiful girl haunted by the desperate unexplainable urge to destroy herself. A man possessed by the paralysing vertigo that made him afraid of high places. What was the strange attraction that brought these two together in spite of the dark forces that tore them apart. The spectre from the past that drew her to the ancient headstone in the mission graveyard. The compulsion that drove her relentlessly to the point of no return. The story of a love so powerful it broke down all barriers between past and present, between life and death. Between the golden girl in the dark tower and the tawdry redhead that he tried to remake in her image."
Cards: James Stewart. Kim Novak playing two amazing roles. Co-starring Barbara Bel Geddes, with Tom Helmore, Henry Jones. Only Hitchcock could weave this tangled web of terror!
Alfred Hitchcock´s VERTIGO. Technicolor. VistaVision.

Restoration Trailer	1.15  (on laserdisc)

(voice from film) "I wake up at night seeing that man fall from the roof and I try to reach out to him." "It wasn´t your fault."
Card: A Mystery Revisited.
(voice from film) "Do you believe that someone out of the past, someone dead, can enter and take possession of a living deed."
Card: A Master Remembered.
(clips from film) "You jumped into the bay, you didn´t know where you were. You guessed but you didn´t know" "I didn´t jump, I didn´t jump, I tell you" "Why did you jump?, why did you jump?" "Please don´t ask me, please don´t ask me."
Cards: A Masterpiece Restored. VERTIGO.
(clips from film) "What is this? What do you want?" "Just wanna know who you are?"
Card: Presented for the first time in 70 mm and DTS Digital Stereo.
(clips from film) "I remind you of her." "I need you to be Madeleine for a while"
Cards: James Stewart. Kim Novak. In Alfred Hitchcock´s VERTIGO. Exclusive engagement this fall in selected cities.

46 NORTH BY NORTHWEST		1959
Trailer		2.12  (on laserdisc)
All cards can be seen in the trailer at the top of this page

Cards: The Master of suspense weaves his greatest tale. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock´s North By Northwest. It´s a deadly game of "TAG" and Cary Grant is "IT".
(clip from film) "I´m a advertising man, not a red herring. I´ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders depended upon me and I don´t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed"
Voice: "You can´t fight it Cary, someone´s out to get you. By violence or by abduction, they´ll even frame you for murder. So run for your life. Search for a man who doesn´t exist. A secret nobody knows and start a love affair in an upper berth."
(clip from film) "Hello there" "Tell me, why are you so good to me?" "Shall I climb up and tell you why?"
Voice: "A train may be an old fashioned way to make a get away but who wants to get away from an exquisite inquisitive blonde."
(clip from film) "How do I know you aren´t a murderer" "You don´t"
Voice: "Eva Marie Saint seems to enjoy Carys romantic performance, but her companion James Mason has other ideas. Ask him Cary."
(clip from film) "Appearantly, the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead" "Your very next role, you´ll be quite convincing I assure you"
Voice: "One surprise after another. Adventurous Cary, romanced by the kind of blonde that gets into a man´s blood even if she has to shoot her way in."
Cards: Hitchcock Suspense. Each staggering sight and sound is real. Cary Grant. Eva Marie Saint. James Mason. Alfred Hitchcock´s North By Northwest. An M-G-M Picture. In the magnitude of VistaVision and Technicolor. That ONLY the big theatre screen can bring you!

Trailer		2.03  (on SF Rush Video)
Only voice off screen, changed from first trailer

Cards: The Master of suspense weaves his greatest tale. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock´s North By Northwest. It´s a deadly game of "TAG" and Cary Grant is "IT".
(clip from film) "I´m a advertising man, not a red herring. I´ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders depended upon me and I don´t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed"
Voice: "Cary Grant becomes a secret agent against his will. Propelled at gunpoint onto the highest level of international intrigue and framed for murder. Cary Grant, running for his life, searching for a man who doesn't exist. And a secret nobody knows and finding a blonde who has all the answers."
(clip from film) "Hello there" "Tell me, why are you so good to me?" "Shall I climb up and tell you why?"
Voice: "At breakneck speed they race together toward the excitement that lies, dead ahead, North By Northwest."
(clip from film) "How do I know you aren´t a murderer" "You don´t"
Voice: "Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason as the man of sinister surprises."
(clip from film) "Appearantly, the only performance that will satisfy you is when I play dead" "Your very next role, you´ll be quite convincing I assure you"
Voice: "The perfect setup for suspense. With the perfect woman and the perfect crime. As Alfred Hitchcock takes you North By Northwest"
Cards: Hitchcock Suspense. Each staggering sight and sound is real. Cary Grant. Eva Marie Saint. James Mason. Alfred Hitchcock´s North By Northwest. An M-G-M Picture. In the magnitude of VistaVision and Technicolor. That ONLY the big theatre screen can bring you!

Travel Agency Trailer 	3.12

Card: A guided tour with Alfred Hitchcock.
Alfred Hitchcock: "Have you planned your vacation yet? You have a choice between sand and sunburn or mountainclimbing and the Charlie-horse. I find it all very (elevating?) but we should all have some kind of holiday. So my suggestion is a quiet little tour, say about 2000 miles. I have just made a motion picture, North By Northwest, to show you some of these delights. And the ideal place to start our holiday fun trip is New York where Cary Grant can go places and do things. You don´t find a taste for little murder on every guided tour, now do you? But this means we must leave Manhattan."
(clips from film) "Hello there." "Tell me, why are you so good to me?" "Shall I climb up and tell you why." "How do I know you aren´t a murderer?" "You don´t."
Alfred Hitchcock: "A train may be an oldfashioned way to travel, but an upper berth can be a lovely place to go, when it´s your time to go. After an uneventful fine nights rest, we arrive in Chicago. We seek out culture in a great art gallery. We can´t leave Chicago without a visit to the great plain, the people are all so friendly in the great outdoors. Now for the climax of our tour. The inspiration of a great American monument, the serene nobility of Mount Rushmore. On this tour you are sure of charming companions by Cary Grant, entirely relaxed, and a bit on the reticent side.
(clip from film) "I´m a advertising man, not a red herring. I´ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders depended upon me and I don´t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself slightly killed."
Alfred Hitchcock: "And for vacation romance, how about an amourous blonde like Eva Marie Saint. She´s the kind of girl that gets in to a man´s blood, even if she has to shoot her way in. Now for the best news of all, you can enjoy this wonderful vacation while seated comfortably in this theatre. I promise you nothing but entertainment. A vacation from all your problems. As it was for me."
Cards: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason. Alfred Hitchcock´s North By Northwest. An M-G-M Picture. In the magnitude of VistaVision and Technicolor. That only the big theatre screen can bring you!

Transcripts of trailers to films by Alfred Hitchcock
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