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Identifying Hitchcock’s most ‘Hitchcockian’ film is largely a matter of personal preference, butMGM’s glorious epitaph to cinema’s silent era remains the purest kind of serotonin rush. Its tiercé of dancers—rubber-faced Donald O’Connor, sparkling newcomer Debbie Reynolds and co-director and headline act Gene Kelly—are a triple th