We make our first visit to Hitchcock’s silent era with Champagne from 1928. It’s a star vehicle for British silent film star Betty Balfour. She plays an heiress who defies her father with an on-again-off-again romance. There’s
also a mysterious gentleman who keeps crossing her path. It’s a riches to rags to riches story of sorts. Hitchcock himself hated it, listen in to hear what we thought of it.
Details: Champagne released in 1928 by British
International Pictures. Produced by John Maxwell from a Screenplay by Eliot
Stannard, story by Walter C. Mycroft. Stars Betty Balfour, Jean, Bradin, Theo von Alten and Gordon Harker. Cinematography by John J. Cox.
Ranking: 50 out of 52. Ranking movies is a reductive parlor
game. It’s also fun. And it’s a good way to frame a discussion. We aggregated over 70 ranking lists from critics, fans, and magazines, and will be going
through Alfred Hitchcock’s films from “worst” to “best.” Champagne got 327 ranking points.

Number Seventeen (1932)

Welcome to Sibling Cinema!
Dennis and Bonnie are siblings and we're here to talk movies! Dennis is an obsessive cinephile and Bonnie is a super casual movie watcher.
 
In this series we are embarking on a countdown of the Academy Award Best Picture winners. We aggregated several different lists (our trailer goes into more detail on how) that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history.