Release Dates
9/15/2025
Podcast 101 is our first release, The subject is The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, which is the first film in which Alfred Hitchcock made a cameo appearance. It was released in 1927 and is a silent film. It stars Ivor Novello and Marie Ault in a Jack the Ripper influenced tale. There is a possibility of second Hitchcock sighting late in the film.
10/15/2025
Podcast 102 : The subject is Hitchcock's 1948 film Rope starring John Dall and Farley Granger as a pair of thrill killers and James Stewart as their former teacher invited their party. This film was done in extremely long takes giving an illusion of a real time elapsing. Will Hichcock attend the party? You will have to listen to find out.
11/15/2025
Podcast 103 : The subject is Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat starring Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak as two of the survivors of a submarine attack. The entire film takes place on a lifeboat. How will Hitchcock make his cameo in such a confined space?
12/15/2025
Podcast 104 : Our Christmas selection will be the original version of The Man Who Knew Too Much shot in 1934. A thriller with lots of British humor but no Que Sera Sera. Starring Leslie Banks and Edna Best as a couple trying to find their daughter who was kidnapped by the odious Peter Lorre complete with a skunk tail streak in his hair. Will they find their daugter in time?
1/15/2026
Podcast 105 : The new year starts with a Hitchcock' 1954 masterpiece Rear Window. Jimmy Stewart is an photographer healing from a broken leg filling his days watching the activities of his Greenwich Village neighbors . Is one a murderer? (Why does the phrase Peeping Tom come to mind?) Grace Kelly stars as his girlfriend . Which window will Hitch show up in?
2/15/2026
Podcast 106 : What are The 39 Steps? Find out the answer to that McGuffin, in Hitchcock's 1935 English thriller of the same name. The 39 Steps stars Robert Donat as the man accused of a murder as he makes his way through Scotland and England searching for clues to what are The 39 Steps, with Madeleine Carroll in tow. Find out what people did before the advent of search engines.
3/15/2026
Podcast 107 : The movie covered in March comes with the descriptive title The Lady Vanishes. This 1938 Hitchcock British thriller has Margaret Lockwood losing an elderly friend (Dame Mae Whitty) mid train ride that nobody seems to remember being there. Michael Redford supplies the love interest. It includes the hilarious subplot of two Englishman desperate to get to London from Eastern Europe for a cricket match( Nauton Wayne and Basil Radford). Hitchcock does love his trains.
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4/15/2026
Podcast 108 : Our April podcast features Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious . This movie stars Ingrid Bergman as the daughter of a traitorous American businessman that is recruited by G-Man Cary Grant to spy upon a group of expatriated Germans in Peru. Complications ensue when the two become romantically involved, while Bergman's assignment requires her to accept the marriage proposal of lead German Claude Rains. Party Hitch hits the bubbly.​