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Sidney Gilliat has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1940s.
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On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
Dir. Sidney Gilliat · With Leo Genn, Alastair Sim, Trevor Howard

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton
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