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Alfred  Hitchcock
[1899-1980]

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         Alfred Hitchcock 'profile sketch' silhouette logo, originally drawn for a Christmas card


Movie director Alfred Hitchcock constitutes his own genre: his aim was to produce fear and guilt in his audience,
and his films deliver that effect - earning him the title 'Master of Suspense'.

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”

“Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement
and, occasionally, a hearty meal.”

“Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.”

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”

“I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.”

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.”

“Disney has the best casting. If he doesn’t like an actor he just tears him up.”

“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission, and the babysitter were worth it.”

“In many of the films now being made, there is very little cinema: they are mostly what I call 'photographs of people talking'.
When we tell a story in cinema we should resort to dialogue only when it's impossible to do otherwise. I always try
to tell a story in the cinematic way, through a succession of shots and bits of film in between.”

— Alfred Hitchcock


     B I O
     h e r e
became an American citizen in 1956
appears on a 32-cent U.S. postage stamp released 8/3/98 in Los Angeles, California
appears on a 44¢ USA commemorative postage stamp, issued 11 August 2009

Alfred Hitchcock entry at Wikipedia
Alfred Hitchcock credits [1921-76] at Internet Movie Database


star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Movies  star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television  received the Irving Thalberg Award from the Academy in 1968       Alfred Hitchcock received
the Irving Thalberg Award from the Academy in 1968
and 5 Oscar nominations for Best Director

He also received
Kinema Junpo Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1948
eight D.G.A. Best Director nominations, 1952-61
twelve Golden Laurel Awards, 1958-71
D.G.A. Lifetime Achievement Award in 1968
BAFTA Academy Fellowship in 1971
Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1974
American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1979
Honorary Knighthood, C.B.E. from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in 1980
listing by The Atlantic Monthly among America's Most Influential Filmmakers [Dec 2006]
and two Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (for Movies & for TV)



Films  of  Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock credits [1921-76] at Internet Movie Database
browse DVDs at the Alfred Hitchcock Store on Amazon

Hitchcock First Forty-Four Films book by Eric Rohmer & Claude Chabrol  "Hitchcock: The First Forty-Four Films" [1979]
by Eric Rohmer & Claude Chabrol, Translated by Stanley Hochman

Roundhouse Publng pb [10/92] out of print/used
Ungar Publng 8½x5¼ hardcover [5/79] out of print/used
Hitchcock's Films Revisited book by Robin Wood  "Hitchcock's Films Revisited" [1989]
by Robin Wood

Columbia Univ Press 9x6½ pb [5/2002] for $26.10
Columbia Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/89] out of print/many used
Columbia Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/89] out of print/used
Films of Alfred Hitchcock book by David Sterritt  "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" [1993]
by David Sterritt

Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [1/93] for $24.99
Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/93] for $54.95
Alfred Hitchcock Filmography & Bibliography book by Jane E. Sloan  "Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography" [1993]
by Jane E. Sloan

Univ CA Press 9x6¼ pb [3/95] for $26.95
G.K. Hall & Co. 9¾x6¾ hardcover [1/93] out of print/used
Hitchcock Poster Art book edited by Tony Nourmand & Mark H. Wolff  "Hitchcock Poster Art: From The Mark H. Wolff Collection" [1999]
Edited by Tony Nourmand & Mark H. Wolff

Overlook Trade 11¾x8¾ pb [10/2000] out of print/used
Aurum Press, Ltd. 11¾x8¾ pb [7/99] out of print/used
Overlook 12x10 hardcover [9/99] out of print/used
Complete Films Of Alfred Hitchcock book by Robert Harris & Michael Lasky  "The Complete Films Of Alfred Hitchcock" [orig 1976, rev 2002]
by Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky,
new Foreword by Patricia Hitchcock

Citadel Press 11x8¼ pb [12/2002] for $16.48
Carol Publng 11x8¼ pb [9/93] out of print/used
Alfred Hitchcock's London Locations book by Gary Giblin  "Alfred Hitchcock's London: A Reference Guide To Locations" [2006]
by Gary Giblin

Midnight Marquee Press 8¾x6 pb [7/2006] for $22.50

Alfred Hitchcock Collection on DVD  "Alfred Hitchcock: The Collection" DVD Box Set [1999]
Delta b&w DVD set [7/99] 7 disks - out of prodn/used
contains 2 silent feature films, 7 sound feature films, and one half-hour TV episode: "The Ring" [1927 silent], "The Manxman" [1929 silent], "Skin Game" [1931], "Number 17" [1932], "The 39 Steps" [1935], "Secret Agent" [1936], "Young and Innocent" [1937], "Jamaica Inn" [made in USA 1939], and "The Cheney Vase"
[1955 episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents']; extras include introductions by Tony Curtis & theatrical trailers
Best of Hitchcock Collection DVD box sets  "The Alfred Hitchcock Collection: The Best of Hitchcock" DVD Box Sets [2001]
Volume 1: Universal Studios DVD [3/2001] 8 disks - out of prodn/used
contains 7 feature films & 4 half-hour TV episodes: "Shadow of A Doubt" [1943], "Rope" [1948], "Rear Window" [1954] Special Edition, "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956], "Psycho" [1960] Special Edition, "Topaz" [1969], "Family Plot" [1976], and four 1955-56 episodes of the TV series 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'
Volume 2: Universal Studios DVD [3/2001] 8 disks - out of prodn/used
contains 7 feature films & 4 half-hour TV episodes: "Saboteur" [1942], "The Trouble With Harry" [1955], "Vertigo" [1958] Special Edition, "The Birds" [1963] Special Edition, "Marnie" [1964], "Torn Curtain" [1966], "Frenzy" [1972], and four 1957-58 episodes of the TV series 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'

Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection DVD box set  "The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection" DVD Box Set [2004]
Warner Home Video DVD set [9/2004] 9 disks for $46.49
includes "Dial M For Murder" [1954; originally filmed in 3-D]; "Foreign Correspondent" [1940]; "I Confess"
[1953]; "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" [1941]; "North By Northwest" [1959] starring Cary Grant; "Stage Fright"
[1950]; "Strangers On A Train" [1951] 2-disc edition; "Suspicion" [1941]; and "The Wrong Man" [1956]; with eight 'Making of..." docufilms, newsreels, trailers, featurettes, and commentary
Alfred Hitchcock Collection DVD 5-disk set  "Alfred Hitchcock Collection: 13 Films on 5 Disks" [2005]
Diamond Ent. b&w DVD set [8/2005] 5 disks for $9.95
contains 13 features: "Blackmail" [1929 sound]; "Juno and The Paycock" [1930]; "Murder!" [1930]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; "Rich and Strange" [1931]; "Number 17" [1932]; "The 39 Steps" [1935]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Secret Agent" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "The Lady Vanishes" [1938]; "Jamaica Inn" [1939]; and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]
Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection DVD box set  "Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection" DVD Box Set [2005]
Universal Studios Home Ent. color/b&w Blu-ray set [10/2012] 15 disks for $294.99 {sic}
Universal Studios Home Ent. color/b&w Blu-ray set [undated] 14 disks - out of prodn/used
Universal Studios Home Ent. color/b&w DVD set [10/2005] 15 disks for $84.14
contains 14 feature films: "Saboteur" [1942]; "Shadow of A Doubt" [1943]; "Rope" [1948]; "Rear Window" [1954]; "The Trouble With Harry" [1955]; "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]; "Vertigo" [1958]; "Psycho" [1960]; "The Birds" [1963]; "Marnie" [1964]; "Torn Curtain" [1966]; "Topaz" [1969]; "Frenzy" [1972]; and "Family Plot" [1976]

Alfred Hitchcock The Legend Begins DVD box set  "Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins - 20 Movie Classics" DVD Box Set [2007]
Mill Creek Ent. b&w DVD set [9/2007] 4 disks for $9.49
contains 18 b&w feature films & 2 TV episodes: "The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog" [1927 silent]; "The Ring" [1927 silent]; "The Farmer's Wife" [1928 silent]; "Champagne" [1928 silent]; "Easy Virtue" [1928 silent]; "The Manxman" [1929 silent]; "Blackmail" [1929 sound]; "Juno and The Paycock" [1930]; "Rich and Strange"
[1931]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; "Number Seventeen" [1932]; "The 39 Steps" [1935]; "Secret Agent" [1936]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "The Lady Vanishes" [1938]; "Jamaica Inn" [1939]; "The Chaney Vase" [1955 TV episode]; "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]; "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
[1962 TV episode]; and bonus 55 minutes of Hitchcock trailers


Ultimate Hitchcock Collection DVD box set  "The Ultimate Hitchcock Collection" DVD Box Set [2007]
St. Clair Vision b&w/color DVD set [11/2007] 6 disks for $22.49
contains 18 b&w feature films & 2 TV episodes: "The Ring" [1927 silent]; "The Lodger" [1927 silent]; "Champagne" [1928 silent]; "The Farmer's Wife" [1928 silent]; "Easy Virtue" [1928 silent]; "The Manxman"
[1929 silent]; "Blackmail" [1929 sound]; "Juno and The Paycock" [1930]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; "Rich and Strange" [1931]; "Number 17" [1932]; "The 39 Steps" [1935]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Secret Agent" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "The Lady Vanishes" [1938]; "Jamaica Inn" [1939]; and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]; extras include posters, trailers, two radio shows & documentary "About Hitchcock"
The Alfred Hitchcock Early Years collection on DVD  
"Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years of The Master of Suspense" DVD Box Set [2007]
LionsGate DVD set [2/2007] 3 disks for $20.99
contains 5 b&w feature films: "The Ring" [1927 silent]; "The Manxman" [1929 silent]; "Murder!" [1930]; "The Skin Game" [1931]; and "Rich and Strange" [1931]

Legends of Horror 50 Movie Pack DVD box set  "Legends of Horror 50 Movie Pack" DVD Box Set [2008]
Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [8/2008] 12 disks for $28.95
The Hitchcock slash horror movies mix makes no sense, but for 60 cents per movie, the set is a bargain for fans of either genre.
contains 48 feature films and two TV episodes: not all are horror, some are of the noir or standard suspense genres: the 30 NON-Hitchcock films are: "A Scream In The Night" [1935] starring Lon Chaney, Jr.; "The Ape Man" [1943] starring Bela Lugosi; "Bowery At Mid-night" [1942] starring Bela Lugosi; "Dracula: The Satanic Rites" [1973] starring Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing; "Crimes At The Dark House" [1940]; "The Crimes of Stephen Hawke [1936]; "The Demon" [1981]; "The Devil Bat" [1940] starring Bela Lugosi; "The Devil's Messenger" [1961] starring Lon Chaney, Jr.; "End of The World" [1977] starring Christopher Lee & Sue Lyon; "The Face At The Window" [1939]; "The Fury of The Wolfman" [Spain 1972] starring Paul Naschy; "The Ghost (Lo Spettro)" {Italy 1963] starring Barbara Steele; "Horror Express" [1972] starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing & Telly Savalas; "The Incredible Petrified World" [1957] starring John Carradine; "The Island
Monster" [Italy 1954] starring Boris Karloff; "It's Never Too Late To Mend" [1937]; "Legacy of Blood" [1971] starring John Carradine; "The Long Hair of Death" [Italy 1964] starring Barbara Steele; "Manfish" [1956] based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe, starring Lon Chaney Jr., Victor Jory & Barbara Nichols ; "Maria Marten, or Murder In The Red Barn" [1936]; "The Nightmare Never Ends" [Troma 1980]; "The Phantom Creeps" feature based on serial [1939] starring Bela Lugosi; "Shadow of Chinatown" [1936] starring Bela Lugosi & Bruce Bennett; "The Shadow of Silk Lennox" [1935] starring Lon Chaney, Jr.; "The She Beast" [1966] starring Barbara Steele; "Shock" [1946] starring Vincent Price; "Silent Night, Bloody Night"
[1972] starring Patrick O'Neal, Mary Woronov & John Carradine; "The Ticket of Leave Man" [1937]; and "The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman" [Spain 1971] starring Paul Naschy;
the 18 feature films and two TV episodes directed by Alfred Hitchcock are: "Blackmail" [1929]; "Champagne" [1928 silent]; "The Cheney Vase" [1955] episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV Series; "Easy Virtue" [1928 silent]; "The Farmer's Wife" [1928 silent]; "Jamaica Inn" [1939] starring Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara & Robert Newton; Sean O'Casey's "Juno and The Paycock" [1929]; "The Lady Vanishes" [1938]; "The Lodger" [1927 silent] starring Ivor Novello; "The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1934] starring Peter Lorre; "The Manxman" [1929 silent]; "Number Seventeen" [1932]; "Rich and Strange / East of Shanghai" [1931]; "The Ring" [1927 silent] written & directed by Hitchcock; "Sabotage" [1936] starring Sylvia Sidney & Oskar Homolka; "Secret Agent" [1936] starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre & Madeleine Carroll; "The Skin Game" [1931]; "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" [1962] episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV Series; "The Thirty-Nine Steps" [1935] starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll; and "Young and Innocent / The Girl Was Young" [1937]

Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection DVD box set  "Alfred Hitchcock: Premiere Collection" DVD Box Set [2008]
M.G.M. Video b&w DVD set [10/2008] 8 disks for $78.99
contains 8 b&w feature films: "The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog" [1927 silent]; "Sabotage" [1936]; "Young and Innocent" [1937]; "Rebecca" [1940]; "Lifeboat" [1944]; "Spellbound" [1945]; "Notorious" [1946]; and "The Paradine Case" [1947]; extras include featurettes, trailers, still photos & commentary
TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Hitchcock Thrillers DVD box set  "T.C.M. Greatest Classic Films Collection: Hitchcock Thrillers" [2009]
Warner Home Video DVD set [11/2009] 2 disks for $15.99
contains four feature films: "Suspicion" [1941]; "Strangers On A Train" [1951]; "I Confess" [1953] starring Montgomery Clift; and "The Wrong Man" [1956] starring Henry Fonda; extras include trailers, commentaries & four featurettes
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Hitchcock's  films  made  in  England

"Number 13" [1922 uncompleted feature; all footage lost]

"White Shadows" silent feature [U.K. May 1924]
Long believed lost; Hitchcock was writer & assistant director; directed by Graham Cutts; starring Betty Compson
{dual role}, Clive Brook & Henry Victor; first three reels of six were discovered in a New Zealand film archive
in 2011 • DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb

"The Ring" [1927 silent] written by Alfred Hitchcock & Alma Reville

"The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog" [1927 silent]

"Champagne" [1928 silent]

"The Farmer's Wife" [1928 silent]

"Easy Virtue" [1928 silent]

"The Manxman" [1929 silent]

"Blackmail" [1929 sound]

"Elstree Calling" musical sound feature [British Intl. Pictures Feb 1930]
1930 talking, singing, dancing sound film 'Elstree Calling'  Very successful early talkie; filmed at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England; a series of nineteen musical & comedy vaudeville/music hall sketches presented in the form of a live TV broadcast to movie theaters; there are two running gags which connect the sketches: in one, an actor wants to perform Shakespeare, but is repeatedly denied air-time; the other gag has an inventor trying to view the broadcast on television. Four of the sketches are in Pathécolor (in shades of yellow & brown only) • Produced by John Maxwell; co-written & directed by Adrian Brunel; sketches directed by André Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray & Alfred Hitchcock; co-written by Walter C. Mycroft, Val Valentine; cinema-tography by Claude Friese-Greene; sound recording by R.C.A. Photophone; hosted by Tommy Handley; featuring The Aldelphi Girls, The Balalaika Choral Orchestra, Gordon Begg {as Shakespeare}, The Berkoffs, Teddy Brown on xylophone & on snaredrum, Helen Burnell singing & dancing {in color}, Donald Calthrop, The Charlot Girls singing & dancing {in color}, Bobbie Comber, Cicely Courtneidge singing & dancing {in color}, Scottish comedian Will Fyffe, Lawrence Green, Gordon Harker, {co-director} Jack Hulbert {several sketches}, Hannah Jones, John Longden, Ivor McLaren, Lily Morris singing & dancing, Nathan Shacknovsky, John Stuart, Jameson Thomas, The Three Eddies blackface tap-dance trio, Anna May Wong {as Katherina in 'Taming of The Shrew' spoof}
Region 1 Blu-ray/DVD not available • Network b&w/color DVD [4/2014] for $9.10  in PAL format only
full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipediawatch full movie [11/2020 upload; 1:27:01] online at YouTube

"Murder!" [1930] = bilingual

"Juno and The Paycock" [1930]
"Mary" [Germany March 1931] /tt0021128/
German-language simultaneous bilingual version directed by Alfred Hitchcock

"The Skin Game" [1931]

"Rich and Strange" [1931]

"Number 17" [1932]

"The 39 Steps" [U.K. 1935]
based on the 1915 book by John Buchan [1875-1940] /B00124P1UM/

"The 39 Steps" remake [1959] /tt0053354/
"The Thirty Nine Steps" remake [1978] /tt0078389/
"The 39 Steps" remake [TV 2008] /tt1282016/

"The 39 Steps" London West End & Broadway comedy stageplay
based on the book by John Buchan (not on Hitchcock's movie)
http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=469215 Bdwy Jan 2008 - Jan 2010
Tony Award for Best Play
http://www.spencertheater.com/win11/steps.html
"39 Steps: Music From & Inspired By West End" [Soundtrack] /B0011NT4U2

"The 39 Steps" remake [2011] /tt0393017/  
Written & directed by Robert Towne

"Sabotage" [1936]

"Secret Agent" [1936]

"Young and Innocent"
[Gaumont British Pictures Nov 1937]
Young and Innocent 1937 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock  USA Title "The Girl Was Young"; a writer finds the body of his ex-lover, a married film actress, on the beach and is arrested for the murder. He escapes with the help of the police constable's infatuated daughter, and they set out to prove his innocence • Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; based on Josephine Tey's 1936 novel "A Shilling For Candles"; starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, George Curzon, Basil Radford, Pamela Carme & George Merritt
M.G.M. Home Video b&w DVD [2/2009] for $17.99
Diamond Ent. b&w VHS [5/95] for $19.98
full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia
11"x17" "The Girl Was Young" poster available for $14.99 at AllPosters.com

"The Lady Vanishes" [Gaumont/M.G.M. Nov 1938]
The Lady Vanishes 1938 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock  Train scenes filmed in Hampshire, England; when a train is forced to stay overnight at a small station in the mountains of Europe, a young woman talks to a nice old lady; in the morning, she realizes that the old woman is missing, and when everyone tries to convince her that there never was such a woman on board, she is determined to find out the truth. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; based on a novel by Ethel Lina White; starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parke, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford & Mary Clare
Criterion b&w DVD [11/2007] 2 disks - out of prodn/many used
Criterion b&w DVD [5/98] out of prodn/many used
Public Domain Flicks b&w DVD [12/2008] for $19.95
U.A.V. Corp. b&w VHS [7/97] out of prodn/used
11"x17" poster {as at left} from Amazon for $3.66
full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia
The Wheel Spins / The Lady Vanishes novel by Ethel Lina White  
"The Wheel Spins" [1936 novel] by Ethel Lina White [1876-1944]
I Books / Otto Penzler mass pb [8/2004] out of print/used
Zebra / Otto Penzler mass pb [2/87] out of print/many used
Bloomsbury Publng 7½x5 pb [5/97] out of print/used
Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. hardcover [6/69] out of print/used

Hitchcock's  films  made  in  the  U.S.A.

"Jamaica Inn" [1939]

   "Rebecca" [Selznick/United Artists March 1940]
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; based on the Daphne Du Maurier novel; starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny & C. Aubrey Smith; won Oscars for Best Picture & Best B&W Cinematography, Oscar noms for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor [LO], Best Actress [JF], Best Supporting Actress [JA], Best B&W Art Direction, Best Music Score, Best Special Effects & Best Film Editing
full credits from IMDb

Announced 2/2012: DreamWorks will remake the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Rebecca" with screenwriter
Steven Knight, who will apparently go back to the Daphne Du Maurier source novel for his adaptation,
and not work directly off Hitchcock’s moody thriller • not yet listed at IMDb

"Foreign Correspondent" [1940]

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" [1941]

"Suspicion" [1941]

"Saboteur" [1942]

"Shadow of A Doubt" [1943 noir]
starring Teresa Wright & Joseph Cotten

"Lifeboat" [Fox Jan 1944]
Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" 1944 movie poster  A freighter and a German U-boat do battle in mid-Atlantic and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the lifeboats: a female journalist, a wealthy industrialist, the radio operator, a nurse, a Negro steward, a sailor, a hysterical Englishwoman, and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat • Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; script by Jo Swerling, based on a story by John Steinbeck; starring Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee & Heather Angel; Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Original Story (JS), Best B&W Cinematography
Fox Special Edition b&w DVD [10/2005] for $9.99
Fox b&w VHS [12/97] out of prodn/many used
11"x17" poster from Amazon for $19.99
full credits from IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia

"Notorious" [1946]

"Rope" [1948]

"Stage Fright" [1950]

"Strangers On A Train" [Warner Bros. July 1951]
Strangers On A Train movie   Two men meet on a train and discuss swapping murders: the police will find no connection and each murder will remain unsolved. One man dismisses the conversation as idle banter. But when he travels to Mexico, and is notified by police that his estranged wife has indeed died under suspicious circumstances, he feels trapped – and then the stranger makes demands for the reciprocal murder. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; script by Raymond Chandler & others from the Highsmith novel; starring Farley Granger & Robert Walker
Warner b&w widescreen DVD [9/98] for $10.99
Warner b&w British version VHS [6/2001] for $14.95
Warner b&w Hollywood version VHS [8/2000] for $14.95
full credits on IMDb
Strangers On A Train novel  
"Strangers On A Train" [1950 novel] by Patricia Highsmith [1921-95]
W.W. Norton pb [8/2001] for $11.16
Penguin mass pb [6/79] out of print/many used

"I Confess" [1953]

"Dial M For Murder"  [1954]
originally filmed in 3-D by Alfred Hitchcock + http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046912/

"Rear Window" [1954] starring James Stewart
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcocks-Window-Cambridge-Handbooks/dp/0521564530/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Looking-Hitchcocks-Rear-Window/dp/0879100877/

"The Trouble With Harry" [1955]

"To Catch A Thief" [1955]

"The Wrong Man" [1956 noir] with Henry Fonda

"The Man Who Knew Too Much" [1956]

"Vertigo" [1958]
http://www.amazon.com/Vertigo-Hitchcock-Classic-Dan-Auiler/dp/0312169159/
http://www.amazon.com/Vertigo-Film-Classics-Charles-Barr/dp/0851709184/

Hitchcock spoof "High Anxiety" [1977] with Mel Brooks and his stock company

"Slavica Perkovic: Vertigo" [2012] by Lewis Baltz, Gus Blaisdell & Jean-Claude Moineau, Photographs by Slavica Perkovic
http://www.amazon.com/Slavica-Perkovic-Vertigo-Lewis-Baltz/dp/3863351320/

"North By Northwest" [1959] starring Cary Grant
North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition - DVD & Blu-ray

"Psycho" [1960]
"To me 'Psycho' was a big comedy. Had to be." — Alfred Hitchcock
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005)
"Psycho 50th Anniversary Edition" on [Blu-ray
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Making-Stephen-Rebello/dp/0714530034/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcocks-Psycho-Casebooks-Criticism/dp/0195169204/
http://www.amazon.com/Psycho-Robert-Bloch/dp/088411077X/

"Psycho II" [1983] /tt0086154/
Anthony Perkins makes a terrifying homecoming in his role as the infamous Norman Bates, who, after years of treatment in a mental institution for the criminally insane, has come home to run the Bates Motel. Vera Miles returns as the woman who is still haunted by her sister’s brutal murder and the ominous motel where it all occurred many years ago . . . in the outstanding sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film. Directed by Richard Franklin; starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz, Hugh Gillin, Claudia Bryar, Robert Browne, Ben Hartigan, Lee Garlington, Tim Maier, Jill Carroll, Chris Hendrie & Tom Holland

"Bates Motel" TV movie [1987] /tt0092622/

What You See In The Dark novel by Manuel Munoz  "What You See In The Dark: A Novel" [2011] by Manuel Munoz
Moves between events surrounding the making of the film "Psycho" - including
the search for a motel to serve as the exterior of the Bates Motel - and the story
of a doomed love affair that ends in murder

Algonquin Books 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2011] for $16.02

"Alfred Hitchcock and The Making of Psycho" [Fox Searchlight release Nov 2012?]
Announced 12/2011: After four years in 'development hell' at Paramount, Montecito Picture Co. has moved
the project to Fox. Sacha Gervasi will direct; Anthony Hopkins is attached to play Hitchcock, and Helen Mirren
just signed to portray Hitch's wife, Alma Reville; added 3/2012: Scarlett Johansson is signed to portray
Janet Leigh and James D’Arcy is signed to portray Anthony Perkins • latest info at IMDb

"Bates Motel" TV series [A&E March 2013 to 2015?]
poster for 'The Bates Motel' TV series  Announced 3/2012 as a ten-episode prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s "Psycho"; tagline "A boy's best friend is his mother"; after the death of Norma's husband, she buys a coastal motel and moves there with her teenage son to start a new life; filmed in British Columbia; ADDED 4/2014: The series is renewed for a third season. Series created by Anthony Cipriano, with Robert Bloch; co-produced by Anthony Cipriano, Mark Wolper & Roy Lee; starring Vera Farmiga {as Norma} & Freddie Highmore {as Norman Bates}
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available
partial credits at IMDbseries entry at Wikipedia

"The Birds" [1963]

"Marnie" [1964]

"Torn Curtain" [1966]

"Topaz" [1969]

"Frenzy" [1972]

"Family Plot" [1976]


Hitchcock  On  Television


"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series [1955-1962]
series credits at IMDbseries entry at Wikipedia
TV series theme music, from Gounod's "Funeral March of A Marionette" {60 seconds}

Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series   half-hour b&w series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock
Season 1 (1955-56): 39 b&w episodes & featurette "Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Look Back"
Universal color/b&w DVD [10/2005] 3 disks for $21.04
Season 2 (1956-57): 39 b&w episodes
Universal b&w DVD [10/2006] 5 disks for $23.05
Season 3 (1957-58): 39 b&w episodes
Universal b&w DVD [10/2007] 5 disks for $24.68
Season 4 (1958-59): 36 b&w episodes
Universal b&w DVD [11/2009] 4 disks for $25.77
Season 5 (1960-61): 38 b&w episodes
Universal b&w DVD [1/2012] 5 disks for $18.00
Season 6 (1961-62): 38 b&w episodes
Universal b&w DVD [11/2013] 5 disks for $40.48
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion book by Martin Grams & Patrik Wikstrom  
"The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion" [2001]
by by Martin Grams, Jr. & Patrik Wikstrom, Foreword by Patricia Hitchcock

O.T.R. Publng, LLC 9x6 pb [4/2001] out of print/used


"The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" TV series [1962-65]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alfred_Hitchcock_Hour


"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series [1985-89]
color remakes of 76 original episodes from 1955-62; series credits at IMDb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents_(1985_TV_series)


Other  Works  by  Alfred Hitchcock

Directed the 1942 pilot episode of the radio series "Suspense" [1942-62]
an adaptation of his 1927 silent film "The Lodger: A Story of The London Fog"

"Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators" book series [circa late 1960s-early 1970s]

Hitchcock on Hitchcock book edited by Sidney Gottlieb  "Hitchcock On Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews" [1995]
Edited by Sidney Gottlieb

Univ CA Press 8¾x6½ pb [11/97] for $22.46
Univ CA Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/used
Alfred Hitchcock Interviews book edited by Sidney Gottlieb  "Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)" [2003]
Edited by Sidney Gottlieb

Univ Press MS 9x6 pb [4/2003] for $19.80
Univ Press MS 9x6½ hardcover [4/2003] for $46.71

Printed  Publications  of  Alfred Hitchcock


http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Mystery-Stories-Suspense/dp/0883656442/
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Terror-Stories-Chosen-Suspense/dp/0883657104/
http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Murder-Suspense-Hitchcock-Mysteries/dp/0883657279/

Works  About  Alfred Hitchcock
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Selected-Writings-Interviews/dp/0520212223/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Revised-Helen-G-Scott/dp/0671604295/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-Notebooks-Authorized-Illustrated-Hitchcock/dp/0380799456/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-At-Work-Bill-Krohn/dp/0714843334/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Midsize-Paul-Duncan/dp/3822815918/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Master-Suspense-Pop-up/dp/0689875959/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-America-Jonathan-Freedman/dp/0195119061/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Centenary-Essays-Richard-Allen/dp/085170736X/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Philosophy-Popular-Culture/dp/0812696166/
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/0415973627/
http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Genius-Alfred-Hitchcock/dp/030680932X/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Life-Darkness-Light/dp/0060988274/
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Alfred-Hitchcock-Motion-Pictures/dp/0385418132/
William Rothman's Hitchcock: the murderous gaze (LJ 6/1/82
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Reader-Marshall-Deutelbaum/dp/0813808928/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-Motifs-Amsterdam-University-Press/dp/9053567720/
http://www.amazon.com/Framing-Hitchcock-Selected-Contemporary-Television/dp/0814330614/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Paula-Marantz-Cohen/dp/0813108500/
http://www.amazon.com/After-Hitchcock-Influence-Imitation-Intertextuality/dp/029271338X/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Romance-Lesley-Brill/dp/069100286X/
http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Story-New/dp/184576708X/
http://www.amazon.com/Eye-Hitchcock-Murray-Pomerance/dp/0813533953/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Murderous-Gaze-Harvard-Studies/dp/0674404114/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcocks-Romantic-Irony-Film-Culture/dp/0231135750/
http://www.amazon.com/Spellbound-Beauty-Alfred-Hitchcock-Leading/dp/0307351300/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitchcock-Twentieth-Century-Cinema-John-Orr/dp/190476455X/
http://www.amazon.com/Alma-Hitchcock-Woman-Behind-Man/dp/0425190056/
http://www.amazon.com/Year-Hitchcock-Weeks-Master-Suspense/dp/081086388X/

"The Men Who Made The Movies: Alfred Hitchcock" [1973 TV]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069686/

Raymond Durgnat's Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974)

Men Who Made The Movies interviews book by Richard Schickel  "The Men Who Made The Movies: Interviews With Frank Capra, George Cukor, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, King Vidor, Raoul Walsh & William A. Wellman" [1975] by Richard Schickel
Ivan R. Dee, Publr 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $19.95
Atheneum 10¼x7¼ hardcover [1975] out of print/used

Hitchcock spoof "High Anxiety" [1977] with Mel Brooks and his stock company

American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards 1979 Alfred Hitchcock  American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards 1979:
Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]

Republic color VHS [2/98] out of stock/used
show credits from IMDb
Alfred Hitchcock Quote Book by Laurent Bouzereau  "The Alfred Hitchcock Quote Book: What He Said, Memorable Lines From His Films, What Others Said About Him" [1993] by Laurent Bouzereau
Citadel/Carol Publng 8x5¼ pb [6/93] out of print/used
Hitch & Alma novel by Robert Schoen  "Hitch & Alma" [1998] by Robert Schoen
described as a novel in screenplay format
Xlibris 8½x5½ pb [11/98] out of print/used
official book site
Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock & Screenplay 'The Short Night'  "The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock: A Memoir of His Last Collaborator and The Final Unproduced Screenplay The Short Night" [orig 1984, rev 1999]
by screenwriter David Freeman

Overlook Trade 8¾x6 pb [8/99] out of print/used

screenplay entry at Wikipedia

French-language 'Le Film Noir' book by Patrick Brion  "Le Film Noir: L'Áge d'Or du Film Criminel Américain" [2004] by Patrick Brion
Subjects include Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Nicholas Ray & Orson Welles
Editions de la Martinière French-language hardcover [9/2004] for €42,75 at Amazon France
Patrick Brion's weblog (in French)
Art by Film Directors book by Karl French  "Art By Film Directors" [2004] by Karl French
includes chapters on Charlie Chaplin, Jean Cocteau, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Hopper, John Huston, Takeshi Kitano, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Fritz Lang, Alan Parker, Gordon Parks, Satyajit Ray, Martin Scorsese, Josef von Sternberg, Wim Wenders, and others
Mitchell Beazley 11½x9½ hardcover [11/2004] for $30.40
Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age  "Conversations With The Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age: At The American Film Institute" [2006] by George Stevens, Jr.
interviews with 32 major writers, directors & cinematographers, including Ingmar Bergman, writer Ray Bradbury, Richard Brooks, Frank Capra, William Clothier, Stanley Cortez, George Cukor, Federico Fellini, George Folsey, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, James Wong Howe, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Gene Kelly, Stanley Kramer, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Ernest Lehman, Mervyn LeRoy, Harold Lloyd, Rouben Mamoulian, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, George Stevens, King Vidor, Hal Wallis, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, William Wyler, and Fred Zinnemann
Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $23.10
Creating The Alfred Hitchcock Film book edited by Will Schmenner  
"Casting A Shadow: Creating The Alfred Hitchcock Film" [2007]
Edited by Will Schmenner & Corinne Granof

Northwestern Univ Press 10x9½ pb [10/2007] for $25.04
Double Take documentary film on Hitchcock by Johan Grimonprez  "Double Take" [festival circuit 2009, Kino Intl. June 2010]
Footage of Hitchcock in 1962 and in 1980 meet, with comparisons to the paranoia of the Cold War Era, as embodied by Nixon, Khrushchev & Kennedy • Co-written & directed by Johan Grimonprez; co-written by Tom McCarthy; featuring Ron Burrage & Mark Perry
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDbofficial movie site
Dial H for Hitchcock mystery novel by Susan Kandel  "Dial H For Hitchcock: A Cece Caruso Mystery Novel" [2009] by Susan Kandel
After a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", professional researcher Cece Caruso finds somebody else's cell-phone in her purse. She tries to return the phone to its owner in Beechwood Canyon, arriving just in time to witness the woman's murder.
HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [10/2009] for $13.99


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Alfred Hitchcock entry at Wikipedia
Alfred Hitchcock credits [1921-76] at Internet Movie Database
browse DVDs at the Alfred Hitchcock Store at Amazon
Alma & Alfred Hitchcock Chair For The Study of American Film [est. 1997] at U.S.C.
http://www.alfredhitchcockgeek.com/


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