Senses of Cinema (2007) - The Sixties, the Thriller and the Judge

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The Sixties, the Thriller and the Judge

• by Richard Franklin

The word “thriller” has a different meaning in the US than it does elsewhere in the English-speaking world. And an English expatriate director and a psychopathic mass-murderer are to blame.

In Alfred Hitchcock’s native England, the word “thriller” still means anything that thrills. A mystery or a whodunit is definitely still a thriller and Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has been running in the West End for 54 years and, even in Canada, was the longest-running show in Toront...

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Richard Franklin is an Australian director, writer, producer of Patrick, Roadgames, Psycho II, Hotel Sorrento and Visitors. He also teaches filmmaking at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

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