Getting Hitched
A Hitchcock Retrospective
Thursdays & Sundays • January 1–June 14, 2026
The Hi-Pointe rings in 2026 by celebrating Alfred Hitchcock with a 16-film retrospective that commences on New Year’s Day and continues through mid-June. Hopscotching across the Master of Suspense’s long and storied career, which stretched from the silent era through the New Hollywood of the 1970s, the series includes a trio of his precedent-setting British works but focuses on Hitchcock’s absurdly fertile American period.
The Thursday matinees for six of the films – Blackmail, The 39 Steps, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Rear Window, and Vertigo – will feature introductions and post-film discussions by Cliff Froehlich, former Riverfront Times film critic and retired executive director of Cinema St. Louis. These discussion screenings are generously sponsored by St. Louis Oasis. Froehlich will likely make surprise appearances at a few additional screenings – we’ll keep you in suspense – and he also contributes the synopses for the entire film series.
The Wrong Man
- Thu, Jan 22
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1956
Starring: Anthony Quayle, Charles Cooper, Harold J. Stone, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles
HITCHCOCK'S FIRST REAL-LIFE THRILLER!
Rope
- Thu, Feb 5
- Sun, Feb 8
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 81 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1948
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Farley Granger, James Stewart, John Dall
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s occasional cinematic experiments – Lifeboat, shot entirely on the titular watercraft, another is – Rope is famous primarily for unfolding in what appears to be one uninterrupted take.
Strangers on a Train
- Thu, Feb 12
- Sun, Feb 15
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 101 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1951
Starring: Farley Granger, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s first novel, Strangers on a Train features one of the finest and most winningly flamboyant acting turns in the director’s oeuvre: Robert Walker as grinning psychopath Bruno Antony.
The 39 Steps
- Thu, Feb 19
- Sun, Feb 22
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 86 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1935
Starring: Godfrey Tearle, Lucie Mannheim, Madeleine Carroll, Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Donat
Part of the St. Louis Oasis Screening & Discussion Series — intro and discussion at the Thursday screening only.
Dial M for Murder (3D)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 105 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1954
Starring: Anthony Dawson, Grace Kelly, John Williams, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings
Although it shares DNA with both Rope and Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder is something...
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 120 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1956
Starring: Bernard Miles, Brenda De Banzie, Doris Day, James Stewart, Ralph Truman
Alfred Hitchcock obsessively returned to favorite genres, themes, and tropes throughout his career, but 1956’s The Man Who...
Shadow of a Doubt
- Thu, Mar 12
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 107 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1943
Starring: Henry Travers, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Teresa Wright
Part of the St. Louis Oasis Screening & Discussion Series — intro and discussion at the Thursday screening only.
To Catch a Thief
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 106 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1955
Starring: Cary Grant, Charles Vanel, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Far more a romantic comedy than a suspense thriller, To Catch a Thief ranks as Alfred Hitchcock’s most...
Notorious
- Thu, Apr 9
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 103 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1946
Starring: Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern
Part of the St. Louis Oasis Screening & Discussion Series — intro and discussion at the Thursday screening only.
Torn Curtain
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 127 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1966
Starring: Hansjörg Felmy, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Paul Newman, Tamara Toumanova
The first of Alfred Hitchcock’s Cold War thrillers – it was followed by Topaz – Torn Curtain tells...
Psycho
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 109 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1960
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles
Arguably the last of Hitchcock’s masterworks – some will champion The Birds – Psycho approaches perfection. Although flawed...
Rear Window
- Thu, May 14
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 112 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1954
Starring: Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey
Part of the St. Louis Oasis Screening & Discussion Series — intro and discussion at the Thursday screening only.
The Birds
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 120 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1963
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright
...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!
North by Northwest
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 136 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1959
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Writer Ernest Lehman’s sophisticated, inexhaustibly witty scenario for Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is a relative rarity in...
Vertigo
Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 128 min. Format: 4K DCP Release Year: 1958
Starring: Barbara Bel Geddes, Henry Jones, James Stewart, Kim Novak, Tom Helmore
Part of the St. Louis Oasis Screening & Discussion Series — intro and discussion at the Thursday screening only.