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From: cn@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Needham)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 07:06:30 GMT
Subject: The Hitchcock Information File
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Since there's been a lot of discussion of Hitchcock's films recently, I'm
posting the latest version of "The Hitchcock Information File". This release
now includes short plot summaries for most of Hitchcock's movies and a vastly
expanded cast and chacter names section.
Col
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HITCHCOCK INFORMATION FILE (updated 24th March 1993)
==========================
[Comments and suggestions are welcome and should be directed to me
at: cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
This file contains:
* A chronological list of all the movies directed by Hitch
* The above list sorted by average rating from the movie ratings report
* A list of all his cameo appearances
* Details of the cast and crew of each film taken from the various lists
posted to r.a.movies.
* Details of all Hitchcock's work available on NTSC LaserDisc
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HITCHCOCK FILMOGRAPHY
=====================
Number 13 (1922) [unfinished]
Pleasure Garden, The (1925)
Mountain Eagle, The (1925) [no known surviving prints]
Lodger, The (1926)
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1927)
Ring, The (1927)
Farmer's Wife, The (1928)
Champagne (1928)
Manxman, The (1929)
Blackmail (1929)
Elstree Calling (1930) [some sketches]
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Murder! (1930)
Skin Game, The (1931)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Rich and Strange (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1935)
Secret Agent (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940) [AAN]
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1943) [AAN]
Bon Voyage (1944) [WWII propaganda film]
Aventure Malgache (1944) [WWII propaganda film]
Spellbound (1945) [AAN]
Notorious (1946)
Paradine Case, The (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1953)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954) [AAN]
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
Wrong Man, The (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960) [AAN]
Birds, The (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)
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HITCHCOCK FILMS SORTED BY RATINGS
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00.0001321 247 8.2 Rear Window
0...001331 205 8.1 North by Northwest
.0.0002221 251 8.0 Psycho
0..0001311 189 7.9 Vertigo
0.0.011221 93 7.8 Notorious (1946)
000.011221 66 7.8 Rebecca
0..0001310 62 7.7 Strangers on a Train
0...001221 31 7.6 Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
00.0.11220 51 7.6 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
0...012220 93 7.6 To Catch a Thief
.000012211 88 7.3 39 Steps, The (1935)
00.0012220 102 7.3 Dial M for Murder (1954)
..00012310 49 7.3 Spellbound
0.00012210 215 7.2 Birds, The
..00013210 48 7.2 Suspicion (1941)
....10330. 26 7.1 I Confess
00.0023110 80 7.0 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
....01501. 16 7.0 Secret Agent
..00023200 85 7.0 Trouble with Harry, The
0.00012210 85 6.9 Rope
0..011311. 28 6.8 Foreign Correspondent
.000013210 65 6.8 Frenzy (1972)
...1124.2. 10 6.7 Rich and Strange
0...02320. 19 6.7 Wrong Man, The
0000012100 71 6.6 Lifeboat
0.0.02120. 27 6.5 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
..01123000 64 6.5 Marnie
.000023100 28 6.5 Torn Curtain
..0..422.. 15 6.5 Young and Innocent
0..00241.. 23 6.3 Saboteur
....2330.. 12 6.2 Blackmail (1929)
.1..133..1 9 6.2 Lodger, The (1926)
...2222.2. 5 6.2 Manxman, The
0..00341.. 20 6.2 Sabotage
0000022100 64 6.1 Family Plot
...01600.. 13 5.9 Jamaica Inn (1939)
0.0.2140.. 15 5.9 Mr. and Mrs. Smith
.00010300. 13 5.9 Paradine Case, The
0.00022.1. 14 5.9 Stage Fright (1950)
0.0122010. 33 5.7 Topaz
1.1.142.1. 10 5.6 Murder!
.1..2211.. 7 5.6 Number Seventeen
.002212... 13 5.0 Under Capricorn
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CAMEO APPEARANCES
=================
THE LODGER (1926): At a desk in a newsroom and later in the crowd watching
an arrest.
EASY VIRTUE (1927): Walking past a tennis court, carrying a walking stick.
BLACKMAIL (1929): Being bothered by a small boy as he reads a book in
the subway.
MURDER (1930): Walking past the house where the murder was committed, about
an hour into the movie.
THE 39 STEPS (1935): Tossing some litter while Robert Donat and Lucie
Mannheim run from the theater, seven minutes into the movie.
YOUNG AND INNOCENT (1938): Outside the courthouse, holding a camera.
THE LADY VANISHES (1938): Very near the end of the movie, in Victoria
Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
REBECCA (1940): Walking near the phone booth in the final part of the film
just after George Sanders makes a call.
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940): Early in the movie, after Joel McCrea
leaves his hotel, wearing a coat and hat and reading a newspaper.
MR. AND MRS. SMITH (1941): Midway through, passing Robert Montgomery in front
of his building.
SUSPICION (1941): mailing a letter at the village postbox about 45 minutes in.
SABOTEUR (1942): Standing in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the
saboteur's car stops, an hour in.
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943): On the train to Santa Rosa, playing cards.
LIFEBOAT (1944): In the "before" and "after" pictures in the newspaper ad
for Reduco Obesity Slayer.
SPELLBOUND (1945): Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel,
carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, 40 minutes in.
NOTORIOUS (1946): At a big party in Claude Rains's mansion, drinking
champae and then quickly departing, an hour after the film begins.
THE PARADINE CASE (1947): Leaving the train and Cumberland Station,
carrying a cello.
ROPE (1948): His trademark can be seen briefly on a neon sign in the view
from the apartment window.
UNDER CAPRICORN (1949): In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue
coat and brown hat, in the first five minutes. Ten minutes later, he is one
of three men on the steps of Government House.
STAGE FRIGHT (1950): Turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as
Marlene Dietrich's maid.
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951): Boarding a train with a double bass fiddle as
Farley Granger gets off in his hometown, early in the film.
I CONFESS (1953): Crossing the top of a staircase after the opening credits.
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954): On the left side of the class-reunion photo,
thirteen minutes into the film.
REAR WINDOW (1954): Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment, a half
hour into the movie.
TO CATCH A THIEF (1955): Ten minutes in, sitting to the left of Cary Grant
on a bus.
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955): Walking past the parked limousine of an old
man who is looking at paintings, twenty minutes into the film.
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1956): Watching acrobats in the Moroccan
marketplace (his back to the camera) just before the murder.
THE WRONG MAN (1956): Narrating the film's prologue.
VERTIGO (1958): In a gray suit walking in the street, eleven minutes in.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959): Missing a bus during the opening credits.
PSYCHO (1960): Four minutes in, through Janet Leigh's window as she returns
to her office. He is wearing a cowboy hat.
THE BIRDS (1963): Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers as Tippi
Hedren enters.
MARNIE (1964): Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi
Hedren passes by, five minutes in.
TORN CURTAIN (1966): Early in the film, sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre
lobby with a blond baby.
TOPAZ (1969): Being pushed in a wheelchair in an airport, half an hour in.
Hitchcock gets up from the chair, shakes hands with a man, and walks off to
the right.
FRENZY (1972): In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, three
minutes into the film; he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
FAMILY PLOT (1976): In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of
Births and Deaths, 41 minutes into the movie.
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DETAILS ON EACH MOVIE
=====================
This section was generated by version 2.6 of the movie database package (to
be released soon) using the full list databases (also to be released soon).
Version 2.5 of the database package and the main list databases are available
via anonymouse FTP from boulder.colorado.edu [128.138.240.1] in the
directory: pub/tv+movies/lists.
KEY:
(d) = director
(w) = writer
(m) = music
(ph) = cinematographer
(AA) = academy award
(AAN) = academy award nomination
(S:AAN) = academy award nomination for supporting actor/actress
(GG) = golden globe award winner
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Title:
.000012211 88 7.3 39 Steps, The (1935)
Aka Titles:
Thirty-Nine Steps, The (1935)
Summary:
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to 1930's London. After a disturbance
at a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is on the run from foreign
agents. He takes her back to his appartment, but they are followed and
later that night Annabella is murdered. Hannay goes on the run to break the
spy ring and thus prove his innocence.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Spy Road
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Charles Bennett
John Buchan (novel)
Alma Reville
Composer:
Hubert Bath
Director of Photography:
Bernard Knowles
Cast:
Peggy Ashcroft...................Margaret
Madeleine Carroll................Pamela
Frank Cellier....................Sheriff
Robert Donat.....................Richard Hannay
Helen Haye.......................Mrs. Jordan
John Laurie......................John
Gus MacNaughton..................Commercial Traveler
Lucie Mannheim...................Annabella Smith
Peggy Simpson....................Maid
Godfrey Tearle...................Professor Jordan
Jerry Verno......................Commercial Traveler
Wylie Watson.....................Memory
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 7 minutes in, tossing some litter as
Robert Donat and Lucie Manheim run from the music hall.
- The film was remade in 1959 and 1978.
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Title:
Aventure Malagache (1944)
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (WWII propaganda film)
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Title:
0.00012210 215 7.2 Birds, The (1963)
Summary:
Spoilt socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping
in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking
to buy a pair of love birds for his young sister's birthday; he recognises
Melanie but pretends to mistake her for an assistant. She decides to get her
own back by buying the birds and driving up to the quiet coastal town of
Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends his weekends with his sister and mother.
Shortly after she arrives, Melanie is attacked by a gull, but this is just
the start of a series of attacks by an increasing number of birds.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Horror
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Daphne Du Maurier (story)
Evan Hunter
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann (as consultant)
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Malcolm Atterbury................Al Malone
Morgan Brittany
Veronica Cartwright..............Cathy Brenner
Lonny Chapman....................Deke Carter
Richard Deacon...................Man in Elevator
Ethel Griffies...................Mrs. Bundy
Tippi Hedren.....................Melanie Daniels
Don Johnson
Doreen Lang......................Mother in Cafe
Joe Mantell......................Traveling Salesman
Ruth McDevitt....................Mrs. MacGruder
John McGovern....................Postal Clerk
Charles McGraw...................Sebastian Sholes
Suzanne Pleshette................Annie Hayworth
Bill Quinn
Karl Swenson.....................Drunk
Jessica Tandy....................Lydia Brenner
Rod Taylor.......................Mitch Brenner
Doodles Weaver...................Fisherman
Elizabeth Wilson.................Helen Carter
Trivia:
- Hitchcock make his cameo appearance at the start of the film walking two
dogs past the pet shop (the dogs were actually his own).
- Hitchcock tried to hire Joseph Stefano (writer of Psycho) to write the
script, but he wasn't interested in the story.
- Hitchcock spotted Tippi Hedren in a diet drink commercial.
- The scene where Tippi Hedren is ravaged by birds near the end of the movie
took a week to shoot. The birds were attached to Tippi's clothes by long
nylon threads so they could not get away.
- The film does not finish with the usual "THE END" title because Hitchcock
wanted to give the impression of unending terror.
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Title:
....2330.. 12 6.2 Blackmail (1929)
Summary:
Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend,
Frank Webber is a Scotland Yard detective who seems more interested in
police work than in her. Frank takes Alice out one night, but she has
secretly arranged to meet another man. Later that night Alice agrees to go
back to his flat to see his studio. The man has other ideas and as he tries
to rape Alice, she defends herself and kills him with a bread knife. When
the body is discovered, Frank is assigned to the case, he quickly
determines that Alice is the killer, but so has someone else and blackmail
is threatened.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Blackmail Murder
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Charles Bennett (also play)
Alfred Hitchcock
Benn W. Levy
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Sara Allgood.....................Mrs. White
Joan Barry (voice)...............Voice of Alice White
Harvey Braban....................Chief Inspector
Donald Calthrop..................Tracy
Hannah Jones.....................The Landlady
Phyllis Konstam
John Longden.....................Frank Webber
Anny Ondra.......................Alice White
Charles Paton....................Mr. White
Cyril Ritchard...................The Artist
John Stuart
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance being bothered by a small boy on the
subway.
- The film was Hitchcock's and England's first talking picture.
- Anny Ondra's voice was dubbed by Joan Barry because she had a thick German
accent. Barry had to stand just of the set and read Ondra's lines into a
microphone as the film was shot.
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Title:
......*... 2 7.0 Bon Voyage (1944)
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (WWII propaganda film)
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Title:
....5.5... 2 6.0 Champagne (1928)
Summary:
A spoilt rich girl leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father's
champagne business. To bring her back down to earth he tells her that all
the money has been lost so she goes to seek her fortune.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Comedy Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Eliot Stannard
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Betty Balfour....................Betty
Jean Bradin......................The Boy
Gordon Harker....................The Father
Phyllis Konstam
Jack Trevor
Marcel Vibert
Theo Von Alten...................The Man
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Title:
00.0012220 102 7.3 Dial M for Murder (1954)
Summary:
Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and
because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college
associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn
events to his advantage.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Mystery
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Frederick Knott (also play)
Composer:
Dmitri Tiomkin
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
George Alderson..................First Detective
Patrick Allen....................Pearson
Leo Britt........................The Storyteller
Sanders Clark....................Detective
Robert Cummings..................Mark Halliday
Anthony Dawson...................Captain Lesgate
Robert Dobson....................Police Photographer
Guy Doleman......................Detective
Sam Harris.......................Man in Phone Booth
Robin Hughes.....................Police Sergeant
Grace Kelly......................Margot Wendice
George Leigh.....................Williams
Ray Milland......................Tony Wendice
Thayer Roberts...................Detective
John (I) Williams................Inspector Hubbard
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 13 minutes into the film, on the left
side of the reunion photograph.
- The movie was shot in 3-D although it was never released that way until
after Hitchcock's death.
- Hitchcock arranged to have Grace Kelly dressed in bright colours at the
start of the film and made them progressively darker as time goes on.
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Title:
....55.... 2 5.5 Downhill (1927)
Summary:
Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the
blame for a friend's theft and his life falls apart in a series of
misadventures.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Constance Collier (play)
Ivor Novello (play)
Eliot Stannard
Director of Photography:
Claude McDonnell
Cast:
Annette Benson
Lilian Braithwaite...............Lady Berwick
Violet Farebrother
Alfred Goddard
Barbara Gott
Ian Hunter.......................Archie
Robin Irvine.....................Tim Wakely
Isabel Jeans.....................Julia
Hannah Jones
Norman McKinnel
Ivor Novello.....................Roddy Berwick
Sybil Rhoda......................Sybil Wakely
Jerrold Robertshaw
Ben Webster......................Doctor Dowson
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Title:
..3..33... 3 5.3 Easy Virtue (1927)
Summary:
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She
escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker.
They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's
secret.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Noel Coward (play)
Eliot Stannard
Director of Photography:
Claude McDonnell
Cast:
Dorothy Boyd
Darcia Deane
Franklin Dyall
Frank Elliot
Violet Farebrother...............Mrs. Whittaker
Benita Hume
Ian Hunter.......................Council for the Plaintiff
Robin Irvine.....................John Whittaker
Isabel Jeans.....................Larita Filton
Bessie Love
Eric Bransby Williams............The Artist
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance walking past a tennis court carrying
a walking stick.
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Title:
.5..5..... 2 3.5 Elstree Calling (1930)
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (some sketches)
Cast:
John Stuart
Jameson Thomas
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Title:
0000022100 64 6.1 Family Plot (1976)
Summary:
Fake medium Madam Blanche and her taxi driver boyfriend make a living from
her phoney powers. They are hired by an aging widow, Julia Rainbird to find
her nephew who was given away for adoption many years earlier following a
family scandal. Meanwhile, an extremely clever couple are behind a series of
kidnappings in the San Francisco area. The two couples path's cross and
chaos results in Hitchcock's last film.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Comedy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Ernest Lehman
Composer:
John (II) Williams
Director of Photography:
Leonard J. South
Cast:
Edith Atwater....................Mrs. Clay
Karen Black......................Fran
Nicholas Colasanto...............Constantine
Bruce Dern.......................George Lumley
William Devane...................Arthur Adamson
Barbara Harris...................Blanche Tyler
Katherine Helmond................Mrs. Maloney
Warren J. Kemmerling.............Grandison
Ed Lauter........................Joseph Maloney
John Lehne.......................Andy Bush
Alexander Lockwood...............Pastor
Cathleen Nesbitt.................Julia Rainbird
William Prince...................Bishop
Marge Redmond....................Vera Hannagan
Charles Tyner....................Wheeler
Martin West......................Sanger
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in silhouette 45 minutes into the film
behind the door at the registrar of births and deaths.
- Roy Thinnes was originally hired to play William Devane's character, but
Hitchcock was dissatisfied with his performance and fired him one month
into the filming.
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Title:
...33...3. 3 6.0 Farmer's Wife, The (1928)
Summary:
Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again
and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the
local single women.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Comedy Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Leslie Arliss
Alfred Hitchcock
J.E. Hunter
Norman Lee
Eden Philpotts (play)
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Antonia Brough
Maud Gill........................Thirza Tapper
Lillian Hall-Davies
Gordon Harker....................Churdles Ash
Louise Pounds
Olga Slade
Jameson Thomas...................Farmer Sweetland
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Title:
0..011311. 28 6.8 Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Summary:
Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor
appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry,
reports he currently gets. Jones' first assignment is to get the inside
story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the
famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don't go to plan and Jones
enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Spy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Robert Benchley
Charles Bennett (SO:AAN)
Joan Harrison (SO:AAN)
James Hilton
Composer:
Alfred Newman
Director of Photography:
Rudolph Mate (AAN)
Cast:
Albert Basserman (S:AAN).........Van Meer
Robert Benchley..................Stebbins
Barry Bernard....................Steward
John Burton......................English Announcer
Frances Carson...................Mrs. Sprague
Edward Ciannelli.................Mr. Krug
E.E. Clive
Edward Conrad....................Latvian
Harry Davenport..................Mr. Powers
Laraine Day......................Carol Fisher
Roy Gordon.......................Mr. Brood
Edmund Gwenn.....................Rowley
Charles Halton...................Bradley
Holmes Herbert...................Asst. Commissioner
Gertrude Hoffman.................Mrs. Benson
Martin Kosleck...................Tramp
Martin Lamont....................Plane Captain
Eily Malyon
Herbert Marshall.................Stephen Fisher
Joel McCrea......................Johnny Jones/Huntley Haverstock
Leonard Mudie....................McKenna
Emory Parnell....................Mohican Captain
Barbara Pepper...................Dorine
George Sanders...................Scott ffolliott
Charles Wagenheim................Assassin
Ian Wolfe........................Stiles
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the movie walking past Joel
McCrea's hotel reading a newspaper.
- Albert Basserman who played the Dutch diplomat Van Meer couldn't speak a
word of English and learnt all his lines phonetically.
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Title:
.000013210 65 6.8 Frenzy (1972)
Summary:
London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie
murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck
Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on
the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Serial_Killer
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (GGN)
Writers:
Arthur La Bern (novel)
Anthony Shaffer
Composers:
Ron Goodwin
Henry Mancini
Directors of Photography:
Leonard J. South
Gilbert Taylor
Cast:
Michael Bates....................Sergeant Spearman
John Boxer.......................Sir George
Bernard Cribbins.................Felix Forsythe
June Ellis.......................Barmaid
Jon Finch........................Richard Blaney
Barry Foster.....................Bob Rusk
Jimmy Gardner....................Hotel Porter
Noel Johnson.....................Man at Bar
Robert Keegan....................Hospital Patient
Barbara Leigh-Hunt...............Brenda Blaney
Jean Marsh.......................Monica Barling
Anna Massey......................Babs Milligan
Bunny May........................Barman
Alec McCowen.....................Inspector Oxford
Vivien Merchant..................Mrs. Oxford
Elsie Randolph...................Gladys
Madge Ryan.......................Mrs. Davison
Gerald Sim.......................Man at Bar
Clive Swift......................Johnny Porter
George Tovey.....................Mr. Salt
Rita Webb........................Mrs. Rusk
Billie Whitelaw..................Hettie Porter
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the first moments of the film in
the crowd - he is the only one not applauding the speaker.
- Elsie Randolph who plays a worker at the hotel last appeared in a Hitchcock
film 40 years earlier as the old maid in 1932's Rich and Strange.
- This was the first film Hitchcock shot in England since 1950's Stage Fright.
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Title:
....10330. 26 7.1 I Confess (1953)
Summary:
Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a
Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works
as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he
heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto
confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan he
cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Paul Anthelme (play)
William Archibald
George Tabori
Composer:
Dmitri Tiomkin
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Brian Aherne.....................Willy Robertson
Charles Andre....................Father Millars
Anne Baxter......................Ruth Grandfort
Montgomery Clift.................Father Michael Logan
Roger Dann.......................Pierre Grandfort
Dolly Haas.......................Alma Keller
O.E. Hasse.......................Otto Keller
Ovila Legare.....................Villette
Karl Malden......................Inspector Larrue
Gilles Pelletier.................Father Benoit
Judson Pratt.....................Murphy
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance crossing the top of a staircase during
the opening credits.
- Anne Baxter was one of the actresses tested by Hitchcock for the leading
role in Rebecca (she was 16 at the time).
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Title:
...01600.. 13 5.9 Jamaica Inn (1939)
Summary:
Irish orphan girl Mary is sent to stay with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss in
Cornwall. Joss is the landlord of Jamaica Inn and also the head of a
gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. Mary soon
finds herself in trouble when she discovers the truth.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Daphne Du Maurier (novel)
Sidney Gilliat
Joan Harrison
J.B. Priestley
Composer:
Eric Fenby
Director of Photography:
Harry Stradling Sr.
Cast:
Leslie Banks.....................Joss Merlyn
George Curzon
William Devlin
Morland Graham
Edwin Greenwood
Clare Greet
Stephen Haggard
Horace Hodges....................Butler
Mervyn Johns.....................Thomas
Charles Laughton.................Sir Humphrey Pengallan
Mabel Terry Lewis
Herbert Lomas
Robert Newton
Marie Ney........................Patience
Maureen O'Hara...................Mary
Hay Petrie.......................Groom
Frederick Piper..................Broker
Basil Radford
Wylie Watson.....................Salvation
Emlyn Williams...................Harr
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Title:
...3.33... 3 5.7 Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Aka Titles:
Shame of Mary Boyle, The
Summary:
A poor Dublin family gets into trouble during the uprising of the 1920s
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Alfred Hitchcock
Sean O'Casey (play)
Alma Reville
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Sara Allgood.....................Juno
Edward Chapman...................Captain Boyle
John Laurie
John Longden
Sidney Morgan....................Joxer
Dave Morris
Maire O'Neill....................Mrs. Madigan
Kathleen O'Regan
Fred Schwartz
Dennis Wyndham
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Title:
0...001221 31 7.6 Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
Summary:
Travellers on a trans-European train are delayed for a night due to bad
weather in an unnamed country. The passengers cram into the small village
hotel where socialite Iris Henderson meets an old governess called Miss
Froy. Shortly after the journey restarts, Miss Froy disappears.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Railway
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Sidney Gilliat
Frank Launder
Ethel Lina White (novel)
Composer:
Louis Levy
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Emile Boreo......................Hotel Manager
Mary Clare.......................Baroness
Catherine Lacey..................The Nun
Phillip Leaver...................Signor Doppo
Margaret Lockwood................Iris Henderson
Paul Lukas.......................Dr. Hartz
Charles Oliver...................The Officer
Cecil Parker.....................Mr. Todhunter
Basil Radford....................Charters
Michael Redgrave.................Gilbert
Sally Stewart....................Julie
Linden Travers...................Margaret
Kathleen Tremaine................Anna
Zelma Vas Dias...................Signora Doppo
Naunton Wayne....................Caldicott
May Whitty.......................Miss Froy
Josephine Wilson.................Madame Kummer
Googie Withers...................Blanche
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance near the end of the movie at Victoria
Station wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette.
- The movie was remade in 1979.
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Title:
0000012100 71 6.6 Lifeboat (1944)
Summary:
In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a
battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the
boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist,
a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor 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.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller War
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
Writers:
John Steinbeck (story) (StO:AAN)
Jo Swerling
Composer:
Hugo Friedhofer
Director of Photography:
Glen MacWilliams (AAN)
Cast:
Mary Anderson....................Alice MacKenzie
Heather Angel....................Mrs. Higgins
Tallulah Bankhead................Constance Porter
William Bendix...................Gus
Hume Cronyn......................Stanley Garrett
John Hodiak......................John Kovac
Henry Hull.......................Charles "Ritt" Rittenhouse
Canada Lee.......................George "Joe" Spencer
Walter Slezak....................Willy: the German
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in "before" and "after" pictures in a
newspaper advert for Reduco the Obesity slayer. The pictures were genuine
as Hitch had just been on a crash diet (although not with the fictional
Reduco).
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Title:
.1..133..1 9 6.2 Lodger, The (1926)
Summary:
A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering
blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting
looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's daughter is a blonde model and
is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes
jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect he may be the avenger.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Serial_Killer Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Marie Belloc-Lowndes (novel)
Alfred Hitchcock
Eliot Stannard
Director of Photography:
Baron Ventimiglia
Cast:
Marie Ault.......................Mrs. Bunting
Arthur Chesny....................Mr. Bunting
June.............................Daisy Bunting
Malcolm Keen.....................Joe Betts
Ivor Novello.....................The Lodger
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance at a desk in the newsroom early in the
film. Some people claim he also appears later in the crowd watching the
arrest.
- Hitchcock wanted an ambiguous ending to the film, but the studio wouldn't
allow it to be implied that Ivor Novello might actually be the murderer.
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Title:
0.0.02120. 27 6.5 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
Summary:
Bob and Jill Lawrence are on a winter sports holiday with their teenage
daughter Betty. When their friend Louis Bernard is shot whilst dancing with
Jill, he tells Bob of an assassination about to take place in London.
Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Betty in
order to keep the Lawrence's quiet. Bob and Jill return to London and take
matters into their own hands.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Kidnap Assassination
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Charles Bennett
Edwin Greenwood
A.R. Rawlinson
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Composer:
Arthur Benjamin
Cast:
Leslie Banks.....................Bob Lawrence
Edna Best........................Jill Lawrence
George Curzon
Pierre Fresnay...................Louis Bernard
Peter Lorre......................Abbott
Cicely Oates.....................Nurse Agnes
Nova Pilbeam.....................Betty Lawrence
Frank Vosper.....................Ramon
Hugh Wakefield...................Clive
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Title:
00.0023110 80 7.0 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
Summary:
Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of
Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day
Bernard is murdered in the local marketplace, but before he dies he manages
to reveal details of an assassination about to take place in London.
Fearing that their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap Hank in order
to keep the McKenna's silent. Ben and Jo go to London and take matters into
their own hands.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Kidnap Assassination
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
John Michael Hayes
Angus MacPhail
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Patrick Aherne...................Handyman
Betty Bascomb....................Edna
Yves Brainville
Hillary Brooke...................Jan Peterson
Doris Day........................Jo McKenna
Brenda De Banzie.................Mrs. Drayton
Daniel Gelin.....................Louis Bernard
Leo V. Gordon....................Chauffer
Carolyn Jones....................Cindy Fontaine
Lewis Martin
Louis Mercier
Bernard Miles....................Mr. Drayton
Alan Mowbray.....................Val Parnell
Reggie Nalder....................The assassin
Christopher Olsen................Hank McKenna
James Stewart....................Dr. Ben McKenna
Alix Talton
Ralph Truman.....................Buchanan
Anthony Warde
Richard Wattis
Magens Wieth.....................Ambassador
Noel Willman
Richard Wordsworth
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance in the Moroccan marketplace watching
the acrobats with his back to the camera just before the murder.
- Bernard Herrmann (the composer of the score) can be seen conducting the
orchestra during the Albert Hall sequence.
- The Albert Hall sequence lasts 12 minutes without a single word of dialogue
and consists of 124 shots.
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Title:
...2222.2. 5 6.2 Manxman, The (1929)
Summary:
Despite their differing backgrounds, fisherman Pete and lawyer Philip have
been life long friends on the Isle of Man. Pete wants to marry Kate, the
landlord's daughter at the local inn, however Kate's father doesn't think
he is good enough. Pete leaves the island to seek his fortune abroad and
entrusts Kate to Philip, but they start to be attracted to each other.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Romance Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Hall Caine (novel)
Eliot Stannard
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Randle Ayrton....................Kate's Father
Carl Brisson.....................Pete
Clare Greet
Malcolm Keen.....................Philip
Anny Ondra.......................Kate
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Title:
..01123000 64 6.5 Marnie (1964)
Summary:
Marnie Edgar is an ice-cold habitual thief. She uses her looks to gain the
confidence of her employers, robs them, and changes her identity. Her only
loves are her horse and her mother, although she has problems with the
latter relationship. Marnie applies for a job at Mark Rutland's Philadelphia
publishing company. Mark recognises her since he is a client of her last
employer, but instead of turning her in, he decides to watch her.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Psychoanalysis
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Jay Presson Allen
Winston Graham (novel)
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Diane Baker......................Lil Mainwaring
Henry Beckman....................First Detective
Morgan Brittany
Sean Connery.....................Mark Rutland
Bruce Dern.......................Sailor
Edith Evanson....................Rita
Martin Gabel.....................Sidney Strutt
Mariette Hartley.................Susan Clabon
Tippi Hedren.....................Marnie Edgar
Louise Latham....................Bernice Edgar
S. John Launer...................Sam Ward
Alan Napier......................Mr. Rutland
Milton Selzer....................Man at Track
Bob Sweeney......................Cousin Bob
Meg Wyllie.......................Mrs. Turpin
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 5 minutes into the film, in the hotel
corridor as Tippi Hedren walks by.
- The production company created for the film, "Geoffrey Stanley" was named
after Hitchcock's pet dogs.
- Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren had a major falling out during the filming and
by the end he directed her through intermediaries.
- Bruce Dern can be seen briefly as the sailor in Marnie's flashback.
- Hitchcock wanted Grace Kelly to make her screen come back in the title role,
but the people of Monaco were not happy with the idea of their princess
playing a compulsive thief.
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Title:
....5.5... 2 6.0 Mountain Eagle, The (1925)
Summary:
In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent
schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Eliot Stannard
Director of Photography:
Baron Ventimiglia
Cast:
Bernard Goetzke..................Pettigrew
John Hamilton....................Edward
Malcolm Keen.....................Fear o' God
Nita Naldi.......................Beatrice
Trivia:
- No prints of this film (Hitchcock's second) are known to have survived and
no one has seen it since the late 1920s.
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Title:
0.0.2140.. 15 5.9 Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Summary:
Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage
with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them
to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer
completely honestly. Annie asks David if he would marry her again if he
could have the time over again and David confides that he misses his freedom
and so probably wouldn't. Later that day, an official from the town where
they got married calls to see David. He explains that owing to a state
boundary dispute, all couples married between 1936 and 1939 in the county
where not legally married. David decides to have fun with this fact, but
unbeknown to him, the county official calls to see Annie too and disaster
results.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Comedy Screwball
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Norman Krasna
Composer:
Edward Ward
Director of Photography:
Harry Stradling Sr.
Cast:
Murray Alper
Jack Carson......................Chuck Benson
Betty Compson....................Gertie
Esther Dale......................Mrs. Krausheimer
Emma Dunn........................Martha
William Edmunds..................Proprietor
Patricia Farr....................Gloria
James Flavin
Charles Halton...................Mr. Deever
Sam Harris
Carole Lombard...................Ann Krausheimer Smith
Philip Merivale..................Mr. Custer
Robert Montgomery................David Smith
Adele Pearce.....................Lily
Gene Raymond.....................Jeff Custer
William Tracy....................Sammy
Lucile Watson....................Mrs. Custer
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about half way through the movie passing
Robert Montgomery in front of his building
- Hitchcock's only screwball comedy. He was talked into directing it by Carole
Lombard.
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Title:
1.1.142.1. 10 5.6 Murder! (1930)
Summary:
An actress in a travelling theatre group is murdered and Diana Baring,
another member of the group is found suffering from amnesia standing by
the body. Diana is tried and convicted of the murder, but Sir John Menier
a famous actor on the jury is convinced of her innocence. Sir John sets out
to find the real murderer before Diana's death sentence is carried out.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Mystery
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Clemence Dane (novel)
Alma Reville
Helen Simpson (novel)
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Nora Baring......................Diana Baring
Matthew Boulton
Donald Calthrop..................Ian Stewart
Esme V. Chaplin
Edward Chapman...................Ted Markham
Robert Easton
Violet Farebrother
William Fazan
Clare Greet
Ross Jefferson
R.E. Jeffrey
Hannah Jones
Phyllis Konstam..................Dulcie Markham
Kenneth Kove
Miles Mander.....................Gordon Druce
Herbert Marshall.................Sir John Menier
Una O'Connor
Guy Pelham
Esme Percy.......................Handel Fane
Joynson Powell
George Smythson
Alan Stainer
Amy Brandon Thomas
Drusilla Vills
S.J. Warmington
Marie Wright
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance an hour into the movie walking past the
house where the murder was committed.
- A German version called "Mary" was filmed at the same time using German
actors, but the same sets.
- The scene where Herbert Marshall thinks out loud in front of a mirror had to
be filmed with a recording of Marshall's lines and an orchestra hidden
behind the set as it was not possible to dub the soundtrack later.
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Title:
0...001331 205 8.1 North by Northwest (1959)
Summary:
Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is
mistaken for a government agent by a gang of spies. He gets involved in a
series of misadventures and is pursued across the States by both the spies
and the government whilst being helped by a beautiful blonde.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Comedy Road
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Ernest Lehman (SSS:AAN)
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Malcolm Atterbury
Edward Binns
Leo G. Carroll...................The Professor
Philip Coolidge..................Dr. Cross
Robert Ellenstein................Licht
Ned Glass
Cary Grant.......................Roger Thornhill
Josephine Hutchinson.............Handsome Woman
Martin Landau....................Leonard
Jessie Royce Landis..............Clara Thornhill
Doreen Lang
Nora Marlowe
James Mason......................Phillip Vandamm
Pat McVey
Philip Ober......................Lester Townsend
Edward Platt.....................Victor Larrabee
Eva Marie Saint..................Eve Kendall
Olon Soule.......................Assistant Auctioneer
Les Tremayne.....................Auctioneer
Adam Williams....................Valerian
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance missing a bus at the end of the opening
credits.
- Jessie Royce Landis played Cary Grant's mother, yet he was 10 months
older than her.
- The shot of Cary Grant entering the UN building had to be filmed with a
hidden camera as Hitchcock wasn't able to get permission to shoot there.
- At one point the movie's title was to be "The Man in Lincoln's Nose",
referring to the final chase sequence on Mount Rushmore.
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Title:
0.0.011221 93 7.8 Notorious (1946)
Summary:
Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S.,
Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government
agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi
friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia
and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Romance Spy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Ben Hecht (SO:AAN)
Composer:
Roy Webb
Director of Photography:
Ted Tetzlaff
Cast:
Fay Baker........................Ethel
Bernice Barrett..................Clerk
Bea Benadaret....................Clerk
Ingrid Bergman...................Alicia Huberman
Candido Bonsato..................Waiter
Charles D. Brown.................Judge
Wally Brown......................Mr. Hopkins
Eddie Bruce......................Reporter
Paul Bryan.......................Reporter
Louis Calhern....................Paul Prescott
Aileen Carlyle...................Woman
Beulah Christian.................Woman
Richard Clark....................Man
Tom Coleman......................Court Stenographer
Ricardo Costa....................Dr. Barbosa
Lester Dorr......................Motorcycle Police
Ben Erway........................Reporter
Alameda Fowler...................Woman
Gavin Gordon.....................Ernest Weylin
William Gordon...................Adams
Cary Grant.......................T.R. Devlin
Virginia Gregg...................Clerk
Harry Hayden.....................Defence Council
Warren Jackson...................District Attorney
Ted Kelly........................Waiter
Don Kerr.........................Reporter
Leopoldine Konstantin............Madame Sebastian
Eberhard Krumschmidt.............Hupka
Frederick Ledebur................Knerr
James Logan......................Reporter
Leota Lorraine...................Woman
George Lynn......................Photographer
Frank Marlow.....................Photographer
Frank McDonald...................Man
Tina Menard......................Maid
Charles Mendl....................Commodore
Alex Minotis.....................Joseph
Howard Mitchell..................Bailiff
Antonio Moreno...................Senor Ortiza
Howard Negley....................Photographer
Roman Nomar......................Dr. Silva
Fred Nurney......................Huberman
Moroni Olsen.....................Walter Beardsley
Garry Owen.......................Motorcycle Police
Claude Rains (S:AAN).............Alexander Sebastian
Reinhold Schunzel................Dr. Anderson
Luis Serrano.....................Dr. Silva
Patricia Smart...................Mrs. Jackson
Ivan Triesault...................Eric Mathis
Dink Trout.......................Court Clerk
John Vasper......................Reporter
Emmett Vogan.....................Reporter
Peter Von Zerneck................Rossner
Alan Ward........................Reporter
Lillian West.....................Woman
Frank Wilcox.....................F.B.I. agent
Herbert Wyndham..................Mr. Cook
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about an hour in, drinking champagne
at the party in Claude Rains' mansion
- Hitchcock claimed that the FBI had him under surveillance for three months
because the film dealt with Uranium for the A-bomb.
- The films producer, David O. Selznick had originally wanted Vivien Leigh
for Ingrid Bergman's role.
- The original story, "The Song of the Dragon" was first published in the
Saturday Evening Post in November 1921.
- It was remade in 1992 as a TV-movie.
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Title:
.....5.5.. 2 7.0 Number 13 (1922)
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (unfinished)
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Title:
.1..2211.. 7 5.6 Number Seventeen (1932)
Summary:
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a
detective is on their trail.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Jefferson Farjeon (novel)
Alfred Hitchcock
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Henry Caine
Donald Calthrop
Ann Casson
Anne Grey........................The Girl
Barry Jones
Leon M. Lion.....................Ben
Garry Marsh
John Stuart......................The Detective
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Title:
.00010300. 13 5.9 Paradine Case, The (1947)
Summary:
The beautiful Mrs. Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind
husband. She hires married Anthony Keane as her lawyer and when he begins to
fall in love with her, she encourages him.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama Courtroom
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Robert Hichens (novel)
David O. Selznick
Composer:
Franz Waxman
Director of Photography:
Lee Garmes
Cast:
Patrick Aherne
Ethel Barrymore (S:AAN)..........Lady Horfield
Leo G. Carroll...................Council for the Prosecution
Charles Coburn...................Sir Simon Flaquer
Isobel Elsom
John Goldsworthy
Colin Hunter
Louis Jourdan....................Andre Latour
Charles Laughton.................Lord Horfield
Lester Matthews
Gregory Peck.....................Anthony Keane
Ann Todd.........................Gay Keane
Alida Valli......................Mrs. Paradine
John (I) Williams
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance getting off a train at the Cumberland
station carrying a cello (see also his cameo in Strangers on a Train).
- An exact replica of the Old Bailey courtroom was constructed for
the court scenes.
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Title:
.5..5..... 2 3.5 Pleasure Garden, The (1925)
Summary:
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets
Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill
meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels
out of the country, she begins to play around.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Oliver Sandys (novel)
Eliot Stannard
Director of Photography:
Baron Ventimiglia
Cast:
C. Falkenburg
Carmelita Geraghty...............Jill Cheyne
Florence Helminger
Miles Mander.....................Levett
Frederick Martini
Nita Naldi.......................Native
George Snell
John Stuart......................Hugh Fielding
Virginia Valli...................Patsy Brand
Trivia:
- Hitchcock's first film was almost doomed when Austrian customs officials
confiscated the film stock on the journey to do some location shooting.
- Although shot a year before, the film wasn't actually released until
after "The Lodger" was a massive hit.
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Title:
.0.0002221 251 8.0 Psycho (1960)
Summary:
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated
her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get
married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One
Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the
opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and
heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught
in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel.
The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be
dominated by his mother.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Horror Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
Writers:
Robert Bloch (novel)
Joseph Stefano
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann
Director of Photography:
John L. Russell (AAN)
Cast:
Frank Albertson..................Tom Cassidy
John Anderson....................California Charlie
Martin Balsam....................Milton Arbogast
John Gavin.......................Sam Loomis
Virginia Gregg...................Voice of mother
Patricia Hitchcock...............Caroline
Paul Jasmin......................Voice of Mother
Ted Knight.......................Prison Guard
Janet Leigh (S:AAN) (S:GG).......Marion Crane
John McIntire....................Sheriff Chambers
Vera Miles.......................Lila Crane
Mort Mills.......................Highway Patrolman
Jeanette Nolan...................Voice of Mother
Simon Oakland....................Dr. Richmond
Anthony Perkins..................Norman Bates
Vaughn Taylor....................George Lowery
Lurene Tuttle....................Mrs. Chambers
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 4 minutes in wearing a cowboy hat
outside Janet Leigh's office.
- The film only cost $800,000 to make yet has earned more than $40,000,000.
Hitchcock used the crew from his TV series to save time and money. In
1962 exchanged the rights to the film and his TV-series for a huge block
of MCA's stock (he became their third largest stockholder).
- Robert Bloch's original novel was inspired by the notorious serial killer
Ed Gein who was also one of the inspirations for the character of Hannibal
Lector (The Silence of the Lambs/Manhunter).
- Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for
just $9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to
keep the ending a secret.
- The shower scene has over 90 splices in it, and was not directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. The production designer [?] had such a good idea for the scene
that Hitchcock let him direct it.
- During the shooting of the shower scene, Hitchcock arranged for the water to
suddenly go ice-cold when the attack started.
- Hitchcock originally envisioned the shower sequence as completely silent,
but Bernard Herrmann went ahead and scored it anyway and Hitch immediately
changed his mind.
- The blood in the shower scene is actually chocolate sauce.
- The shot of Janet Leigh flushing the toilet is believed to be the first
such shot in American cinema history.
- Hitchcock tested the "fear factor" of mother's corpse by placing it in
Janet Leigh's dressing room and listening to how loud she screamed when
she discovered it.
- There is a rumor that the MPAA refused to pass this film because they
claimed to be able to see Janet Leigh's nipple during the shower scene.
Hitchcock didn't edit it out, but merely sent it back, (correctly, it seems)
assuming that they either wouldn't bother to watch it, or miss it the second
time.
- Hitchcock insisted that audiences should only be allowed to see the film
from the start so as not to ruin the surprise. This was unheard of back
then as people were used to just coming in at any point during a movie.
- After the film's release Hitchcock received an angry letter from the
father of a girl who refused to have a bath after seeing Diabolique and now
refused to shower after seeing Psycho. Hitch sent a note back simply
saying "Send her to the dry cleaners".
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Title:
00.0001321 247 8.2 Rear Window (1954)
Summary:
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while
getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York
apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing
the neighbours. He begins to suspect that the man opposite may have
murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his society model girlfriend
Lisa Freemont and his nurse Stella to investigate.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Mystery
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
Writers:
John Michael Hayes (S:AAN)
Cornell Woolrich (novel)
Composer:
Franz Waxman
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks (AAN)
Cast:
Ross Bagdasarian.................Songwriter
Denny Bartlett
Sara Berner......................Woman on Fire Escape
Raymond Burr.....................Lars Thorwald
Frank Cady.......................Man on Fire Escape
Wendell Corey....................Thomas J. Doyle
Georgine Darcy...................Miss Torso
Havis Davenport
Marla English....................Party Girl
Judith Evelyn....................Miss Lonely Hearts
Jesslyn Fax......................Sculptress
Fred Graham
Kathryn Grant....................Party Girl
Rand Harper......................Honeymooner
Len Hendry
Grace Kelly......................Lisa Fremont
Harry Landers....................Young Man
Alan Lee
Mike Mahoney
Edwin Parker
Thelma Ritter....................Stella
Dick Simmons
James Stewart....................Jeff (L. B. Jeffries)
Anthony Warde
Irene Winston....................Mrs. Thorwald
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance an hour into the film, winding the
clock in the songwriter's apartment.
- At the time the set was the largest indoor set built at Paramount Studios.
- The film was unavailable for many years owing to a dispute with Cornell
Woolrich's estate over the rights to the original story.
- Hitchcock supposedly hired Raymond Burr to play the villain because he
looked like his old producer David O. Selznick.
- Other than a couple of shots near the end and the discovery of the dead
dog all the shots in the movie originate from Stewart's apartment
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Title:
000.011221 66 7.8 Rebecca (1940)
Summary:
A shy ladies companion is staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer
when she meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. Max is still troubled by the
death of his wife, Rebecca in a boating accident the year before. She and
Max fall in love, get married and return to Manderlay, his large country
estate in Cornwall. The second Mrs. de Winter meets the housekeeper Mrs.
Danvers and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at
Manderlay.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Romance Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
Writers:
Daphne Du Maurier (novel)
Joan Harrison (S:AAN)
Robert E. Sherwood (S:AAN)
Composer:
Franz Waxman (O:AAN)
Director of Photography:
George Barnes (AA)
Cast:
Judith Anderson (S:AAN)..........Mrs. Danvers
Florence Bates...................Mrs. Van Hopper
Nigel Bruce......................Major Giles Lacy
Leonard Carey....................Ben
Leo G. Carroll...................Dr. Baker
Gladys Cooper....................Beatrice Lacy
Melville Cooper..................Coroner
Reginald Denny...................Frank Crawley
Edward Fielding..................Frith
Joan Fontaine (AAN)..............Mrs. de Winter
Gladys George....................Beatrice Lacey
Lumsden Hare.....................Tabbs
Forrester Harvey.................Chalcroft
Laurence Olivier (AAN)...........Maxim de Winter
George Sanders...................Jack Favell
C. Aubrey Smith..................Colonel Julyan
Philip Winter....................Robert
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance walking past a phone booth just after
George Sanders makes a call in the final part of the movie.
- The first film Hitchcock made in Hollywood and the only one that won a
best picture Oscar (and even that went to the film's producer).
- Just as in the original novel, Joan Fontaine's character has no first
name.
- Over 20 actresses were tested for the role that eventually went to Joan
Fontaine.
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Title:
...1124.2. 10 6.7 Rich and Strange (1932)
Summary:
Fred and Emily Hill lead a boring life in the London suburbs. They decide
to escape from it all by writing to a rich relative and asking for their
inheritance in advance. Using the money they go on a world cruise and get
into a series of misadventures.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Comedy Romance
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Alfred Hitchcock
Alma Reville
Val Valentine
Composer:
Hal Dolphe
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Betty Amann......................The Princess
Joan Barry.......................Emily Hill
Henry Kendall....................Fred Hill
Percy Marmont....................Commander Gordon
Elsie Randolph...................The Old Maid
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Title:
...2222... 4 5.5 Ring, The (1927)
Summary:
Jack Saunders and Bob Corby are two boxers in love with Nellie. Jack and
Nellie are married but their marriage is flat so she starts to look to
Bob for comfort.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama Boxing Silent
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Alfred Hitchcock
Alma Reville
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
Carl Brisson.....................Jack Sanders
Lillian Hall-Davies..............Nelly
Gordon Harker
Forrester Harvey.................Harry
Tom Helmore
Ian Hunter.......................Bob Corby
Harry Terry
Billy Wells
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Title:
0.00012210 85 6.9 Rope (1948)
Summary:
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York appartment. They
consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley
and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David
with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a
small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancee Janet and their
old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As
Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Suspense Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Patrick Hamilton (play)
Arthur Laurents
Composer:
Leo F. Forbstein
Director of Photography:
Joseph A. Valentine
Cast:
Joan Chandler....................Janet
Constance Collier................Mrs. Atwater
John Dall........................Brandon
Douglas Dick.....................Kenneth
Edith Evanson ..................Mrs. Wilson
Farley Granger...................Philip
Cedric Hardwicke.................Mr. Kentley
Dick Hogan.......................David Kentley
James Stewart....................Rupert Cadell
Trivia:
- Hitchcock's trademark can be seen on a neon sign in the view from the
apartment window.
- The film was shot in a series of 8 minute continuous takes (the maximum
amount of film that a camera could hold). At the end of each segment the
camera zooms in on a dark object, ready to zoom out for the start of the
next segment. Most of the props were on castors and the crew had to wheel
them out of the way as the camera moved around the set.
- Hitchcock only managed to shoot roughly one segment per day. The last 4 or 5
segments had to be completely re-shot because Hitch wasn't happy with the
colour of the sunset.
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Title:
0..00341.. 20 6.2 Sabotage (1936)
Aka Titles:
Woman Alone, A
Summary:
Mr. Verloc is part of a gang of foreign saboteurs operating out of London.
He manages a small cinema with his wife and her teenage brother as a cover,
but they know nothing of his secret. Scotland Yard assign an undercover
detective to work at the shop next to the cinema in order to observe the
gang.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Charles Bennett
Joseph Conrad (novel)
E.V.H. Emmett
Ian Hay
Helen Simpson
Composer:
Louis Levy
Director of Photography:
Bernard Knowles
Cast:
Sara Allgood
Joyce Barbour....................Renee
Pamela Bevan
Matthew Boulton..................Superintendent
Peter Bull
William Dewhurst.................Professor
Clare Greet
Oscar Homolka....................Mr. Verloc
Martita Hunt
John Loder.......................Ted
Sylvia Sidney....................Mrs. Verloc
Desmond Tester...................Her Brother
Torin Thatcher
Austin Trevor
S.J. Warmington..................Hollinghead
Sam Wilkinson
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Title:
0..00241.. 23 6.3 Saboteur (1942)
Summary:
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the States when
he is wrongly accused of starting a fire which killed his best friend.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Road
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Joan Harrison
Alfred Hitchcock (story)
Dorothy Parker
Peter Viertel
Composer:
Frank Skinner
Director of Photography:
Joseph A. Valentine
Cast:
Kathryn Adams
Murray Alper
Alan Baxter......................Mr. Freeman
Oliver Blake
Anita Bolster
Frances Carson
Robert Cummings..................Barry Kane
Billy Curtis
Pedro De Cordoba
Vaughn Glaser
Alma Kruger......................Mrs. Van Sutton
Otto Kruger......................Charles Tobin
Priscilla Lane...................Patricia Martin
Anita LeDeaux
Norman Lloyd.....................Fry
Dorothy Peterson
Jeanne Roher
Lynn Roher
Ian Wolfe
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about an hour in standing in front of
Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the saboteur's car stops.
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Title:
....01501. 16 7.0 Secret Agent (1936)
Summary:
British soldier and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home during WWI to
find that a government agency has faked a report of his death. They get
him to change his name to Richard Ashenden and travel to Switzerland to
track down a German agent.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Spy Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Charles Bennett
Campbell Dixon
Ian Hay
Jesse Lasky Jr.
W. Somerset Maugham
Composer:
Louis Levy
Director of Photography:
Bernard Knowles
Cast:
Madeleine Carroll................Elsa
Charles Carson...................R
John Gielgud.....................Ashenden
Tom Helmore
Florence Kahn....................Mrs. Caypor
Peter Lorre......................The General
Percy Marmont....................Caypor
Lilli Palmer.....................Lilli
Michael Redgrave
Michel Saint-Davis
Robert Young.....................Marvin
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Title:
00.0.11220 51 7.6 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Summary:
The Newton family lead a quiet life in the North California town of Santa
Rosa. The Newton's eldest daughter, Charlotte, decides that things need
brightening up and resolves to contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she
is named) and invite him to stay. On arrival at the telegraph office she
discovers he is already on his way. However, Uncle Charlie is being pursued
by a couple of detectives who suspect him of being "The Merry Widow
Murderer", an evil strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several
rich East coast widows.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Sally Benson
Gordon McDonell (story) (StO:AAN)
Alma Reville
Thornton Wilder
Composer:
Dmitri Tiomkin
Director of Photography:
Joseph A. Valentine
Cast:
Irving Bacon.....................Station Master
Charles Bates....................Roger Newton
Virginia Brissac.................Mrs. Phillips
Macdonald Carey..................Jack Graham
Frances Carson...................Mrs. Poetter
Patricia Collinge................Emma Newton
Joseph Cotten....................Charlie Oakley
Hume Cronyn......................Herbie Hawkins
Earle S. Dewey...................Mr. Norton
Sarah Edwards....................Doctor's wife on Train
Edward Fielding..................Doctor on Train
Wallace Ford.....................Fred Saunders
Vaughn Glaser....................Dr. Phillips
Estelle Jewell...................Girlfriend
Ruth Lee.........................Mrs. MacCurdy
Eily Malyon......................Librarian
John McGuire.....................Detective
Shirley Mills....................Young Girl
Clarence Muse....................Railroad Porter
Constance Purdy..................Mrs. Martin
Isabel Randolph..................Mrs. Green
Grandon Rhodes...................Reverand MacCurdy
Janet Shaw.......................Louise
Byron Shores.....................Detective
Edwin Stanley....................Mr. Green
Henry Travers....................Joseph Newton
Minerva Urecal...................Mrs. Henderson
Edna Mae Wonacott................Ann Newton
Teresa Wright....................Young Charlie
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance on the train to Santa Rosa playing
cards. He has the entire suit of spades in his hand, including the symbolic
ace.
- It was remade as "Step Down to Terror" in 1958 and as a TV movie in 1991.
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Title:
....3.3.3. 3 7.0 Skin Game, The (1931)
Summary:
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small
English village and almost destroy each other.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
John Galsworthy (play)
Alfred Hitchcock
Alma Reville
Director of Photography:
Jack Cox
Cast:
George Bancroft..................Second Stranger
Edward Chapman...................Dawker
Jill Esmond......................Jill
C.V. France......................Mr. Hillcrest
Ronald Frankaus..................Auctioneer
Dona Gregory.....................Mrs. Jackman
Edmund Gwenn.....................Mr. Hornblower
Helen Haye.......................Mrs. Hillcrest
R.E. Jeffrey.....................First Stranger
Phyllis Konstam..................Chloe
Frank Lawton.....................Rolf
John Longden.....................Charles
Herbert Ross.....................Mr. Jackman
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Title:
..00012310 49 7.3 Spellbound (1945)
Summary:
The head of the Green Manors mental asylum Dr. Murchison is retiring to be
replaced by Dr. Edwards, a famous psychiatrist. Edwards arrives and is
immediately attracted to the beautiful but cold Dr. Constance Petersen.
However, it soon becomes apparent that Dr. Edwards is in fact a paranoid
amnesiac imposter. He goes on the run with Constance who tries to help his
condition and solve the mystery of what happened to the real Dr. Edwards.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Romance Psychoanalysis Mystery
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock (AAN)
Writers:
Francis Beeding (novel)
Ben Hecht
Angus MacPhail
Composer:
Miklos Rozsa (D:AA)
Director of Photography:
George Barnes (AAN)
Cast:
Jean Aker........................Matron
Art Baker........................Lt. Cooley
Richard Bartell..................Ticket Man
Ingrid Bergman...................Dr. Constance Peterson
Harry (II) Brown.................Gateman
Leo G. Carroll...................Dr. Murchison
Michael Chekhov (S:AAN)..........Dr. Brulov
Donald Curtis....................Harry
Joel Davis.......................John Ballantine (younger)
John Emery.......................Dr. Fleurot
Edward Fielding..................Dr. Edwardes
Rhonda Fleming...................Mary Carmichael
Wallace Ford.....................Hotel Stranger
Steven Geray.....................Dr. Graff
Bill Goodwin.....................House Detective
Paul Harvey......................Dr. Hanish
Teddy Infuhr.....................Ballantine's Brother
Victor Kilian....................Sheriff
Norman Lloyd.....................Garmes
George Meader....................Railroad Clerk
Matt Moore.......................Policeman
Gregory Peck.....................John Ballantine
Addison Richards.................Police Captain
Erskine Sanford..................Dr. Galt
Janet Scott......................Norma
Clarence Straight................Secretary at Police Station
Regis Toomey.....................Sergeant Gillespie
Dave Willock.....................Bellboy
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 40 minutes in, coming out of the
elevator at the Empire hotel carrying a violin.
- One of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis.
- The dream sequence was designed by Salvador Dali, and was originally
supposed to run to 20 minutes. It included a scene with Ingrid Bergman
covered in ants. Only part of it was filmed, and even less of it ended up in
the release version.
- The shot where the audience sees the killer's view down a gun barrel
pointing at Ingrid Bergman was filmed using a giant hand holding a giant
gun to get the perspective correct.
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Title:
0.00022.1. 14 5.9 Stage Fright (1950)
Summary:
Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his
lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan
explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real
murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the
detective in charge of the case, she starts to fall in love.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Mystery
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Whitfield Cook
Selwyn Jepson (novel)
Composer:
Leighton Lucas
Director of Photography:
Wilkie Cooper
Cast:
Ballard Berkeley
Marlene Dietrich.................Charlotte Inwood
Joyce Grenfell...................Shooting Gallery Attendant
Patricia Hitchcock...............Chubby Banister
Hector MacGregor.................Freddie
Miles Malleson...................Bibulous gent
Andre Morell.....................Inspector Byard
Alastair Sim.....................Commodore Gill
Sybil Thorndike..................Mrs. Gill
Richard Todd.....................Jonathan Cooper
Kay Walsh........................Nellie
Michael Wilding..................Inspector Wilfred Smith
Jane Wyman.......................Eve Gill
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance turning to look at Jane Wyman in her
disguise as Marlene Dietrich's maid.
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Title:
0..0001310 62 7.7 Strangers on a Train (1951)
Summary:
Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy
Haines on a train. Guy wants to move into a career in politics and has
been dating a senator's daughter (Ann Morton) while awaiting a divorce from
his wife. Bruno wants to kill his father, but knows he will be caught
because he has a motive. Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme whereby he and Guy
exchange murders. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes
things into his own hands.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Raymond Chandler
Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Czenzi Ormonde
Composer:
Dmitri Tiomkin
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks (AAN)
Cast:
Joel Allen.......................Policeman
Murray Alper.....................Boatman
Monya Andre......................Dowager
John Brown.......................Professor Collins
John Butler......................Blind Man
Leonard Carey....................Butler
Leo G. Carroll...................Senator Morton
Edward Clark.....................Mr. Hargreaves
John Doucette....................Hammond
Laura Elliot.....................Miriam Haines
Roy Engel........................Policeman
Tommy Farrell....................Miriam's Boyfriend
Sam Flint........................Man
Robert Gist......................Hennessy
Farley Granger...................Guy Haines
Jonathan Hale....................Mr. Antony
Eddie Hearn......................Sgt. Campbell
Harry Hines......................Man Under Merry-Go-Round
Patricia Hitchcock...............Barbara Morton
Mary Alan Hokanson...............Secretary
Edna Holland.....................Mrs. Joyce
J. Louis Johnson.................Butler
Louis Lettieri...................Boy
Marion Lorne.....................Mrs. Antony
Charles Meredith.................Judge Dolan
Ralph Moody......................Seedy Man
Rolland Morris...................Miriam's Boyfriend
Odette Myrtil....................Madame Darville
Minna Phillips...................Dowager
George Renevant..................Monsieur Darville
Ruth Roman.......................Anne Morton
Howard St. John..................Captain Turley
Janet Stewart....................Girl
Shirley Tegge....................Girl
Laura Treadwell..................Mrs. Anderson
Norma Varden.....................Mrs. Cunningham
Robert Walker....................Bruno Antony
Howard Washington................Waiter
Dick Wessel......................Bill
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film boarding a train
carrying a double bass fiddle as Farley Granger gets off the train (see
also his cameo in The Paradine Case).
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
to keep the price down and got them for just $7,500
- Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was
almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author.
- The movie was remade as "Once you Kiss a Stranger" in 1969.
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Title:
..00013210 48 7.2 Suspicion (1941)
Summary:
Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money
from friends. He meets shy Lina McLaidlaw on a train whilst trying to travel
in a first class carriage with a third class ticket. He begins to court
Lina and before long they are married. It is only after the honeymoon that
she discovers his true character and she starts to become suspicious when
Johnny's friend and business partner, Beaky is killed mysteriously.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Mystery
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Joan Harrison
Francis Iles (novel)
Samson Raphaelson
Alma Reville
Composer:
Franz Waxman (D:AAN)
Director of Photography:
Harry Stradling Sr.
Cast:
Heather Angel....................Ethel
Billy Bevan......................Ticket Taker
Nigel Bruce......................Beaky
Leo G. Carroll...................Captain Melbeck
Joan Fontaine (AA)...............Lina McLaidlaw
Cary Grant.......................Johnnie Aysgarth
Cedric Hardwicke.................Mr. McLaidlaw
Lumsden Hare.....................Inspector Hodgson
Gertrude Hoffman.................Mrs. Wetherby
Isabel Jeans.....................Mrs. Newsham
Auriol Lee.......................Isobel Sedbusk
Hilda Plowright..................Postmistress
Reginald Sheffield...............Reggie Wetherby
Ben Webster......................Registrar
May Whitty.......................Mrs. McLaidlaw
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 45 minutes in, mailing a letter at
the village post office.
- In the scene where Cary Grant brings a glass of milk up to Joan Fontaine,
Hitch had a light hidden in the glass to make it appear more sinister.
- Hitchcock originally wanted Grant to be guilty, but the studio insisted
that the public wouldn't accept him as a murderer.
- It was remade as a British TV movie in 1987
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Title:
0...012220 93 7.6 To Catch a Thief (1955)
Summary:
A series of ingenious jewelry robberies takes place on the French Riviera.
The police suspect John Robbie - an expert thief who was known as "The Cat"
before he retired from crime. Robbie enlists the help of an insurance man
to guess where the real thief will strike next. He befriends wealthy
widow Jessie Stevens and her attractive daughter Frances.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Romance
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
David Dodge (novel)
John Michael Hayes
Composer:
Lyn Murray
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks (AA)
Cast:
John Alderson....................Detective
Georgette Anys...................Germaine
Brigitte Auber...................Danielle
Rene Blancard....................Lepic
Lewis Charles
Guy De Vestel....................Detective
Russell Gaige....................Mr. Sanford
Cary Grant.......................John Robie
Jean Hebey.......................Mercier
Grace Kelly......................Frances Stevens
Bela Kovacs......................Detective
Jessie Royce Landis..............Jessie Stevens
Roland Lesaffre..................Claude
Jean Martinelli..................Foussard
Don Megowan......................Detective
Paul Newlan......................Vegetableman
Leonard Penn.....................Monaco Policeman
Marie Stoddard...................Mrs. Sanford
Charles Vanel....................Bertani
John (I) Williams................H. H. Hughson
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 10 minutes in, sitting next to Cary
Grant on a bus.
- The road where Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are pursued by the police is
the same one where Kelly died in a car crash 27 years later.
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Title:
0.0122010. 33 5.7 Topaz (1969)
Summary:
A high ranking Russian official defects to the United States, where he is
interviewed by US agent Michael Nordstrom. The defector reveals that a
French spy ring codenamed "Topaz" has been passing NATO secrets to the
Russians. Michael calls in his French friend and counterpart Andre
Devereaux to expose the spies.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Spy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Samuel Taylor
Leon Uris (novel)
Composer:
Maurice Jarre
Director of Photography:
Jack Hildyard
Cast:
Per-Axel Arosenius...............Boris Kusenov
Lew Brown........................American Official
Roscoe Lee Browne................Philippe Dubois
Lewis Charles....................Mr. Mendoza
Roberto Contreras................Munoz
Karin Dor........................Juanita de Cordoba
John Forsythe....................Michael Nordstrom
Tina Hedstrom....................Tamara Kusenov
Claude Jade......................Michele Picard
Sonja Kolthoff...................Mrs. Kusenov
Anna Navarro.....................Mrs. Mendoza
Philippe Noiret..................Henri Jarre
Michel Piccoli...................Jacques Granville
Don Randolph.....................Luis Uribe
Carlos Rivas.....................Hernandez
Dany Robin.......................Nicole Devereaux
John Roper.......................Thomas
Edmond Ryan......................McKittreck
George Skaff.....................Rene d'Arcy
Frederick Stafford...............Andre Devereaux
Michel Subor.....................Francois Picard
Sandor Szabo.....................Emile Redon
Roger Til........................Jean Chabrier
John Van Dreelen.................Claude Martin
John Vernon......................Rico Parra
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance 30 minutes in at the airport getting
out of a wheelchair.
- The film was Hitchcock's biggest flop, costing over $4M to make, but taking
less than $1M
- Leon Uris wrote the first draft of the screenplay, but Hitch declared it
unshootable at the last minute and called in Samuel Taylor (writer of
Vertigo) to rewrite it from scratch. Some scenes were written just hours
before they were shot.
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Title:
.000023100 28 6.5 Torn Curtain (1966)
Summary:
U.S. rocket scientist Michael Armstrong and his assistant/fiancee Sarah
Sherman are attending a convention in Norway. Michael is acting very
suspiciously and Sarah follows him to East Germany when he apparently tries
to defect to the other side.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller Spy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer:
Brian Moore
Composers:
John Addison
Bernard Herrmann (rejected)
Director of Photography:
John F. Warren
Cast:
Julie Andrews....................Sarah Sherman
Carolyn Conwell..................Farmer's Wife
Ludwig Donath....................Professor Gustav Lindt
Hans-Joerg Felmy.................Heinrich Gerhard
Gisela Fischer...................Dr. Koska
Gloria Gorvin
Arthur Gould-Porter..............Freddy
Lila Kedrova.....................Countess Luchinska
Wolfgang Kieling.................Hermann Gromek
Mort Mills.......................Farmer
Paul Newman......................Michael Armstrong
David Opatoshu...................Jakobi
Gunter Strack....................Professor Karl Manfred
Tamara Toumanova ...............Ballerina
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film sitting in a hotel
lobby with a baby on his knee.
- The scene where agent Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult
it really can be to kill a man.
- Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall did extensive (uncredited) rewrites on the
script.
- Bernard Herrmann wrote the original score, but Universal executives convinced
Hitch that they needed a more upbeat score. Hitch and Herrmann had a major
disagreement, the score was dropped and they never worked together again.
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Title:
..00023200 85 7.0 Trouble with Harry, The (1955)
Summary:
Trouble erupts in a small, quiet New England town when a man's body is
found in the woods. The problem is that almost everyone in town thinks that
they had something to do with his death.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Black_Comedy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
John Michael Hayes
Jack Trevor Story (novel)
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Ernest Curt Bach
Royal Dano.......................Calvin Wiggs
Mildred Dunnock..................Mrs. Wiggs
Parker Fennelly..................Millionaire
John Forsythe....................Sam Marlowe
Edmund Gwenn.....................Captain Albert Wiles
Shirley MacLaine.................Jennifer Rogers
Barry Macollum...................Tramp
Dwight Marfield..................Dr. Greenbow
Jerry Mathers....................Arnie Rogers
Mildred Natwick..................Miss Gravely
Philip Truex
Leslie Wolff
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about 20 minutes in, walking past the
limousine of a man looking at the paintings.
- Bernard Herrmann's score was the first of a long collaboration with
Hitchcock that lasted nearly nine years.
- Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously
for just $11,000.
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Title:
.002212... 13 5.0 Under Capricorn (1949)
Summary:
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life
with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he
arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict Sam Flusky, who wants
to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's
house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child
back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of
madness.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
James Bridie
Helen Simpson (novel)
Composer:
Richard Addinsell
Director of Photography:
Jack Cardiff
Cast:
Ronald Adam
Ingrid Bergman...................Henrietta Flusky
Joseph Cotten....................Sam Flusky
Francis De Wolff
Maureen Delaney
Julia Lang
Margaret Leighton................Milly
Roderick Lovell
Victor Lucas
Betty McDermot
G.H. Mulcaster
Denis O'Dea......................Corrigan
Cecil Parker.....................Governor
John Ruddock
Bill Shine
Olive Sloan
Jack Watling.....................Winter
Michael Wilding..................Charles Adare
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance five minutes into the movie in the
town square wearing a coat and a brown hat. Ten minutes later he is one of
three men on the steps of government house.
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Title:
0..0001311 189 7.9 Vertigo (1958)
Summary:
San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson develops a fear of
heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during
a chase. An old college friend (Gavin Elster) hires Scottie to watch his
wife Madeleine who has become obsessed with the past. Scottie follows her
around San Francisco and is drawn into a complex plot.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Mystery Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Pierre Boileau (novel)
Alec Coppel
Thomas Narcejac (novel)
Samuel Taylor
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Raymond Bailey...................Doctor
Barbara Bel Geddes...............Midge
Ellen Corby......................Manageress
Tom Helmore......................Gavin Elster
Henry Jones......................Official
Kim Novak........................Madeleine/Judy
Lee Patrick......................Older Mistaken Identification
Konstantin Shayne................Pop Leibel
James Stewart....................Scottie Ferguson
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance about 11 minutes in wearing a gray
suit walking past Gavin Elster's shipyard.
- The film is based upon the novel "D'Entre les Morts" which was written
specifically for Hitchcock after the authors heard that he tried to
buy the rights to their previous novel "Diabolique".
- San Juan Batista, the Spanish mission which features in key scenes in the
movie doesn't actually have a bell tower - it was added with trick
photography. The mission originally had a steeple but it was demolished
following a fire.
- The screenplay is credited to Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor, but Coppel
didn't write a word of the final draft. He is credited for contractual
reasons only. Taylor read neither Coppel's script nor the original novel,
he worked solely from Hitchcock's outline of the story.
- Hitchcock reportedly spent a week filming a brief scene where Kim Novak
stares at a portrait in the Palace of the Legion of Honor just to get the
lighting right.
- Hitchcock invented the famous combination of forward zoom and reverse
tracking shot to convey the sense of vertigo to the audience. The view
down the mission stair well cost $19,000 for just a couple of seconds of
screen time.
- Hitchcock originally wanted Vera Miles to play Madeleine, but she got
pregnant and was therefore unavailable.
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Title:
.....*.... 2 6.0 Waltzes from Vienna (1933)
Summary:
The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Musical Comedy
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Guy Bolton (also play)
Alma Reville
Composer:
Johann Strauss
Cast:
Marcus Barron....................Drexter
Fay Compton......................The Countess
Bertram Dench
Hindle Edgar.....................Leopold
Sybil Grove
Edmund Gwenn.....................Strauss the Elder
Robert Hale......................Ebezeder
Charles Heslop
Betty Huntley Wright
Esmond Knight....................Strauss the Younger
B.M. Lewis
Jessie Matthews..................Rasi
Billy Shine Jr.
Cyril Smith
Frank Vosper.....................The Prince
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Title:
0...02320. 19 6.7 Wrong Man, The (1957)
Summary:
Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork
Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the
local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office
mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the
police are called. The film tells the true story of what happened to Manny
and his family.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Drama
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Maxwell Anderson
Angus MacPhail
Composer:
Bernard Herrmann
Director of Photography:
Robert Burks
Cast:
Charles Aidman...................Jail Medical Attendant
Sammy Armaro.....................Suspect
Barry Atwater....................Mr. Bishop
Laurinda Barrett.................Constance Willis
Michael Ann Barrett..............Miss Daily
John C. Becher...................Liquor Store Proprietor
Henry Beckman....................Prisoner
Ray Bennett......................Policeman
Harold Berman....................Court Stenographer
Mary Boylan......................Curious Customer
Paul Bryar.......................Interrogation Officer
Ed Bryce.........................Court Officer
John Caler.......................Soldier
Kippy Campbell...................Robert Balestrero
Leonard Capone...................Court Clerk
Paul Carr........................Young Man
Gordon Clark.....................Police Attendant
Norma Connelly...................Betty Todd
Charles Cooper...................Detective Matthews
William Crane....................Juror
Lola D'Annunzio..................Olga Conforti
Spencer Davis....................Prisoner's Lawyer
Mel Dowd.........................Nurse
Josef Draper.....................Juror
Richard Durham...................Department of Correction Guard
Robert Essen.....................Gregory Balestrero
Olga Fabian......................Mrs. Mank
Henry Fonda......................Manny Balestrero
Bonny Franklin...................Young Girl
Chris Gampel.....................Department of Correction Guard
Earl George......................Delicatessen Proprietor
Charles J. Guiotta...............Court Officer
Cherry Hardy.....................Waving Woman
Will Hare........................McKaba
John Heldabrand..................Tomasini
Rhodelle Heller..................Stork Club Customer
Bill Hudson......................Police Lieutenant from the 110th precinct
Anna Karen.......................Miss Duffield
Barbara Karen....................Giggly Girl
Mike Keene.......................Department of Correction Guard
David Kelly......................Policeman
Werner Klemperer.................Dr. Bannay
Walter Kohler....................Manny's Felony Court Attorney
Doreen Lang......................Ann James
William LeMassena................Sang
Alexander Lockwood...............Emmerton
Dayton Lummis....................Judge Groat
Maurice Manson...................District Attorney
Donald May.......................Arresting Patrolman
Marc May.........................Tomasini's Assistant
Don McGovern.....................Waving Man
John McKee.......................Police Attendant
Dallas Midgette..................Customer at Bickford's
Vera Miles.......................Rose Balestrero
Silvio Minciotta.................Mr. Balestrero
Esther Minciotti.................Manny's Mother
Pat Morrow.......................Young Girl
Thomas J. Murphy.................Court Officer
Daniel Ocko......................Felony Court Judge
Nehemiah Persoff.................Gene Conforti
Natalie Priest...................Delicatessen Proprietor's Wife
Anthony Quayle...................Frank O'Connor
Allan Ray........................Suspect
Frances Reid.....................Mrs. O'Connor
Maria Reid.......................Spanish Woman
Richard Robbins..................Daniell
Rossana San Marco................Mrs. Ferraro
Penny Santon.....................Spanish Woman
Frank Schofield..................Department of Correction Guard
Elizabeth Scott..................Waving Woman
Helen Shields....................Receptionist
Otto Simanek.....................Mr. Mank
Oliver Stacey....................Stork Club Customer
Harry Stanton....................Department of Correction Guard
John Stephen.....................Stork Club Customer
Harold J. Stone..................Lt. Bowers
Clarence Straight................Policeman
Dino Terranova...................Mr. Ferraro
Emerson Treacy...................Mr. Wendon
John Truax.......................Suspect
Don Turner.......................Detective
John Vivyan......................Detective Holman
Peggy Webber.....................Miss Dennerly
Tuesday Weld.....................Giggly Girl
Maurice Wells....................Department of Correction Guard
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance narrating the film's prologue. The only
time he actually spoke in any of his films.
- Although based on a true story, Hitchcock deliberately left out some of the
information that pointed to Manny's innocence to heighten the tension.
- The "right" man (the real culprit) can be seen several times during the
film: outside the Stork Club, in the Victor Moore arcade and near one of
the liquor stores where the police take Manny.
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Title:
..0..422.. 15 6.5 Young and Innocent (1937)
Summary:
A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all
her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to
be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the
police, however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer.
Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and
goes on the run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to
prove his innocence.
Summary by:
Colin Needham <cn@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Genres:
Thriller
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:
Charles Bennett
Alma Reville
Josephine Tey (novel)
Composer:
Louis Levy
Director of Photography:
Bernard Knowles
Cast:
Frank Atkinson
Clive Baxter
Pamela Bevan
Pamela Carme.....................Christine
Albert Chevalier
Mary Clare.......................Erica's Aunt
George Curzon....................Guy
Derrick De Marney................Robert Tisdall
William Fazan
Gerry Fitzgerald
Richard George
Anna Konstam
John Longden.....................Det. Insp. Kent
H.F. Maltby
Percy Marmont....................Col. Burgoyne
George Merritt
John Miller
Fred O'Donovan
Nova Pilbeam.....................Erica Burgoyne
Basil Radford....................Erica's Uncle
Edward Rigby.....................Old Will
J.H. Roberts
Peggy Simpson
Torin Thatcher
Beatrice Varley
Jerry Verno
Jack Vyvian
Humberston Wright
Trivia:
- Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance outside the courthouse holding a camera
as Derrick de Marney escapes.
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HITCHCOCK ON LASERDISC
======================
This section gives details of all Hitchcock's work available on NTSC LaserDisc
in the USA. Many thanks to Dave Radcliffe <radcliff@apple.com> for this
information.
Title Year Format Sides Price Distrib. Catalog Extras
----- ---- ------ ----- ----- -------- ------- ------
39 Steps, The 1935 CLV 2 39.95 Criterion CC1103L
Alfred Hitchcock Presents CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40009 (1)
Birds, The 1963 CLV 3 39.98 MCA 11007 (2)
Blackmail 1929 CLV 2 49.95 Criterion CC1297L (0)
Dial M for Murder 1953 CLV 2 34.98 Warner 11156
Family Plot 1976 CLV/CAV 3 39.98 MCA 11005 (3)
Foreign Correspondent 1940 CLV/CAV 3 39.98 Warner 35080
Frenzy 1972 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 11006 (4)
I Confess 1952 CLV 2 34.98 Warner 11063
Lady Vanishes, The 1938 CLV 2 34.95 Criterion CC1108L
Lifeboat 1943 CLV 2 39.98 CBS/Fox 1393-80
Man Who Knew Too Much, The 1934 CLV/CAV 2 29.95 Image ID7462FP
Man Who Knew Too Much, The 1956 CLV 2 29.95 MCA 40129
Marnie 1964 CLV 3 39.95 MCA 40156 (5)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith 1941 CLV 2 39.98 Image ID6405TU
North by Northwest 1959 CLV 3 69.95 Criterion CC1226L
North by Northwest 1959 CLV/CAV 3 29.95 MGM/UA (6)
North by Northwest 1959 CAV 6 124.95 Criterion CC1145L (7)
Notorious 1946 CLV 2 44.95 Criterion CC1204L (8)
Notorious 1946 CAV 4 99.95 Criterion CC1203L (9)
Psycho 1960 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 11003 (10)
Rear Window 1954 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40081
Rebecca 1940 CLV 3 69.95 Criterion CC1199L (11)
Rebecca 1940 CAV/CLV 6 124.95 Criterion CC1198L (12)
Rope 1948 CLV 2 34.98 MCA 40110
Sabotage 1936 CLV 2 34.95 Criterion CC1117L
Saboteur 1942 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40111 (13)
Secret Agent 1936 CLV 2 29.95 Criterion CC1118L
Shadow of a Doubt 1943 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40112 (14)
Spellbound 1945 CLV 2 39.98 CBS/Fox 8035-80
Stage Fright 1950 CLV 2 34.98 Warner 11380
Strangers on a Train 1951 CLV 2 24.95 Warner 11062
Suspicion 1941 CLV 2 34.95 Image ID6404TU
To Catch A Thief 1955 CLV 2 29.95 Paramount LV 6308
Topaz 1969 CLV/CAV 3 34.95 MCA 40473 (15)
Torn Curtain 1966 CLV/CAV 3 39.95 MCA 40472 (16)
Trouble With Harry, The 1956 CLV 2 34.95 MCA 40130
Under Capricorn 1949 CLV 2 39.95 Image ID8171VA
Vertigo 1958 CLV 2 39.98 MCA 40082
Wrong Man, The 1957 CLV 2 34.95 Warner 11155
Young and Innocent 1937 CLV 2 34.95 Criterion CC1116L
Note:
For dual format discs, the final side is in the second format listed.
Extras information:
(0) Audio commentary by Charles Bennett, screentests, outtakes
(1) Four half hour episodes from the TV series:
Lamb to the Slaughter/The Case of Mr. Pelham/Banquo's Chair/
Back for Christmas
(2) Trailers for: The Birds, Vertigo, Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much,
Rear Window, Psycho
(3) Theatrical trailers, production stills
(4) Theatrical trailer
(5) Theatrical trailer
(6) Theatrical trailer
(7) Theatrical trailer, publicity stills, production photos, interviews,
storyboards, discussion of VistaVision
(8) Audio commentary by Rudi Behlmer
(9) Audio commentary by Rudi Behlmer, publicity stills, production info &
techniques, possible alternate endings, radio version, theatrical trailer
(10) Theatrical trailer
(11) Audio commentary by Leonard J. Leff
(12) Audio commentary by Leonard J. Leff, screen tests, interviews, publicity
stills, radio version
(13) Theatrical trailer
(14) Theatrical trailer
(15) Theatrical trailer, two alternate endings
(16) Theatrical trailer
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