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Celebrate Alfred Hitchcock Day with streaming

    




    In honor of Alfred Hitchcock Day, let’s explore the top 5 Hitchcock classics (according to me) available for streaming, and as always if you need help with anything streaming or smart home related you can contact us at 309-778-8611 or by emailing us at OneSource@midcentury.com


1. Psycho

streaming on: Peacock

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

2. Rear Window

streaming on: Peacock

A photographer in a wheelchair spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.

3. Vertigo

streaming on: Peacock

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

4. North by Northwest

streaming on: Max

A New York advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies and falls for a woman whose loyalties he beings to doubt.

5. The Birds

streaming on: Peacock

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.









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