North by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

North by Northwest: New York Sour Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Arguably Hitchcock’s popular and critical masterpiece, this film has it all. Cary Grant is magnificent as the wrongly accused man on the run, handling his dire straights with dry humor and nonchalance. The action set pieces are riveting and so superior to the CGI we typically get today. While the romantic banter has a verbal wit we seem to have forgotten on screen.

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Catch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Catch Me If You Can: Catch Me If You Can Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Remember when going to the movies was a welcome escape from times of turbulence and trouble instead of a nosedive into them? Well, Steven Spielberg did when he made this sunny film that is laugh out loud at times. It’s the perfect medicine, and Leonardo DiCaprio administers it with professional expertise.

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Gloomy Sunday: Hungarian Beef Roll Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁 1/2

Hungary in the 1930s, and Laszlo Szabo’s Budapest restaurant, as well as the man himself, stands as a last bastion of elegance, civility and grace in a world that is slowly spiraling into chaos. While his beautiful Ilona, like her Greek namesake Helen, is the center of her own small circle of adulation and destruction.

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The Lady Vanishes: Absolutely Ultimate Potato Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Treat yourself to one of Hitchcock’s early classics, complete with international intrigue, slightly wacky cricket fans, and a Miss Marple like lady who suddenly vanishes without a trace from her train compartment as it meanders through the Swiss Alps. With the sole exception of a young Englishwoman, however, no one else will even admit to having seen her in the first place.

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Charade: French Alpine Tartiflette Casserole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2

Charade: French Alpine Tartiflette Casserole Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2

“The best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made.”  And no wonder.  We have Hitchcock favorite Cary Grant with echoes of North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief. As well as ever elegant Audrey Hepburn exquisitely beautiful and rivaling the tailored loveliness of Grace Kelly in Rear Window.

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The Ipcress File with *Update on New Series: Champignon Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

This classic British thriller has the nitty gritty stuff of Cold War spy stories – tedious stakeouts, dark hallways, rain-polished streets, and a bureaucracy almost as deadly as the enemy. Meet Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer, the anti-James Bond, who even with his cockney accent and horn-rimmed glasses is every bit as sexy as his better-known rival. And did I mention that he can cook, too?

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