The Cold War, Alfred Hitchcock, and the advancement of television are ingeniously interconnected in this collage of space-race news footage, hilarious coffee ads, and excerpts from Hitchcock's thrillers. Was the Cold War just one huge MacGuffin? Double Take is a cinematic elaboration of the installation "Looking for Alfred," which features a series of Hitchcock lookalikes. As television hijacks cinema, and the Khruschev and Nixon kitchen debate rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and Alfred himself emerges in a dandy new role on TV, blackmailing housewives with brands they can't refuse. Director Johan Grimonprez (who caused a furor with his documentary Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y) uses this elegantly composed essay to say a great deal about the influence of television, the way we view historical events, and the global rise of "fear as a commodity."