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3.9/5EXECUTIONER "ACE"
Stage Fright (1950)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
3.9/5EXECUTIONER "ACE"Quick Hit
Performance, lying, and murder folded into one backstage package.
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Stage Fright has a lighter touch than Hitchcock's darkest noirs, but its interest in performance makes it more than a breezy whodunit. Everyone is acting for survival, desire, or vanity, and the movie enjoys peeling those masks back. Shifty and satisfying.
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