We end the 2025 season on a high, with this glorious love-letter to screwball movies, which has more laughs in each of its many set pieces than most comedies do in their entire runtime. Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal are backed by a solid gold supporting cast.
Beautifully and inventively shot in sublime black and white, this film marked a new artistic height in Hitchcock’s career. Ingrid Bergman stars as the daughter of a German war criminal enlisted by Cary Grant’s U.S. government agent to infiltrate a nest of post-war Nazis — but at what cost?
Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster were never better — and that’s saying something — brilliantly cast against type as a desperate small-time press agent and the monstrous gossip columnist who can make or break lives with a line.
