Guide to the films of Alfred Hitchcock
“Suspense can be introduced in a simple love story as well as the mystery or ‘whodunit’ picture. Make the audience suffer as much as possible.” — Alfred Hitchcock
People love Hitchcock not only because he was such a pioneer in the field of film, but also because he began to think about the story and shooting techniques from the perspective of the audience, inserting them into his carefully designed psychological world and letting them “enjoy” it. This festival will not only commemorate Hitchcock’s great contribution to the film industry, but also mark his 130th birthday.
DIRECTOR Biography
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Filmography
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Awards
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Interview
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FILMS Rebecca
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Suspicion
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Shadow of a Doubt
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Spellbound
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Notorious
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The Paradine Case
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Strangers on a Train
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Psycho
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FESTIVAL About 2029
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About Title
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Schedule
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Location
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Event 2
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Filmography
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Awards
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Interview
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“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” — Alfred Hitchcock
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Biography
BIOGRAPHY
Known as “the Master of Suspense”, he directed over 50
The “Hitchcockian” style includes the use of camera
feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming
movement to mimic a person’s gaze, thereby turning
as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many
viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise
interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his
anxiety and fear. The film critic Robin Wood wrote
hosting and producing of the television anthology Alfred
that the meaning of a Hitchcock film “is there in the
Hitchcock Presents (1955–1965). His films garnered a
method, in the progression from shot to shot.
total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film
to the whole.”
industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph-cable
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s,
company. He made his directorial debut with the silent
Hitchcock returned to form with Strangers on a Train
film The Pleasure Garden (1925). His first successful
(1951) and Dial M For Murder (1954). By 1960 Hitchcock
film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927),
had directed four films often ranked among the greatest
helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film,
of all time: Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by
Blackmail, was the first British “talkie”.
Northwest (1959), and Psycho (1960), the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations. In 2012,
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international
Vertigo replaced Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) as
importance, and film producer David O. Selznick
the British Film Institute’s greatest film ever made based
persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of
on its world-wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
successful films followed, including Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and Notorious (1946). Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for Lifeboat (1944) and Spellbound (1945).
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FILMOGRAPHY
Silent films
Number 13 (1922, unfinished, lost) Always Tell Your Wife (1923, short) The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mountain Eagle (1926, lost) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) The Ring (1927) Downhill (1927) The Farmer’s Wife (1928) Easy Virtue (1928) Champagne (1928) The Manxman (1929)
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Filmography
Sound films
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
Rebecca (1940)
Murder! (1930)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Elstree Calling (1930)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
The Skin Game (1931)
Suspicion (1941)
Mary (1931)
Saboteur (1942)
Rich and Strange (1931)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Lifeboat (1944)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
Aventure Malgache (1944, short)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Bon Voyage (1944, short)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Spellbound (1945)
Secret Agent (1936)
Notorious (1946)
Sabotage (1936)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Rope (1948)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
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Stage Fright (1950)
Psycho (1960)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The Birds (1963)
I Confess (1953)
Marnie (1964)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Rear Window (1954)
Topaz (1969)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Frenzy (1972)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Family Plot (1976)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Wrong Man (1956) Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959)
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SELECTED AWARDS
Academy Award, USA 1941
Rebecca
13th Best Director (Nominate)
1945
Life Boat
17th Best Director (Nominate)
1946
Spellbound
18th Best Director (Nominate)
1955
Rear Window
27th Best Director (Nominate)
1961
Psycho
33th Best Director (Nominate)
1968
40th Irving Thalberg Memorial Award (won)
1979
Lifetime Achievement Award (Won)
Cannes Film Festiva 1946
Notorious
1st Grand Prix (Nominate)
1953
I Confess
6th Grand Prix (Nominate)
1956
The Man Who
9th Golden Palm (Nominate)
Knew Too Much
Venice Film Festival 1955
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To Catch a Thief
20th Golden lion (Nominate)
Selected Awards
Directors Guild of America
Outstanding Achievement Award
1951
Strangers on a Train
(Nominate)
1954
Dial M for Murder
(Nominate)
1957
The Trouble with Harry
(Nominate)
1958
Vertigo
(Nominate)
1959
North by Northwest
(Nominate)
1960
Psycho
(Nominate)
1968
Lifetime Achievement Award (Won)
San Sebastian International Film Festival 1958
North by Northwest
6th SSIFF / Silver Shells Award (Won)
1959
Psycho
7th SSIFF / Silver Shells Award (Won)
Golden Globe Awards 1972
29th Cecil B. DeMille Award (Won) 30th Best Director (Nominate)
1973
Frenzy
30th Best Director (Nominate)
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B: There was that two-minute necking scene in “Notorious” more than 20 years ago
INTERVIEW Remembrance of Murders Past: Conversation With Alfred Hitchcock
when Cary Grant was trying to talk on the telephone while Ingrid Bergman kept kissing him. Then more recently, in “North by Northwest,” you. . . H: Yes, Grant again. He was all over Eva Marie Saint in that train compartment. It’s always seemed to me that when two people embrace, they don’t want to let go. Interesting thing about that scene in “Notorious.” I distinctly
By H.E.F. Donohue
remember where I got the idea of not letting them go--of having the woman
New York Times. December 14, 1969
not let go of the man, even though he was on the telephone. It was long before I made the film. Before World War II, and I was on a train in France going from Boulogne to Paris and it was on a sunny Sunday afternoon when the train was going through the station of Etapes, moving quite slowly, when I saw a man and a woman, arm in arm, and he was urinating against a wall but the girl never let go of him. She was glancing around, looking at him and what he was doing now and then, but she would not move her arm away from his, she did not want to break that tension. B: Yet the nudity in current films. . . H: I’ve never had much nudity in my films. Even in “Topaz” when the Frenchman goes to bed with his mistress, I merely suggest that they are nude, because you have to leave something to the audience’s imagination. The same thing is true, I think, for violence. The whole design of “Psycho” was to reduce the violence on the screen as the film progressed and to increase the sense of violence in the audience’s mind. By the end of the film I wanted the audience to actually feel the violence that they would never see on the screen. As for all the sex these days, all the stag films I call them, parading about as feature films, what are we all waiting for? Everyone’s waiting for the one great scene on a super-sized Cinerama screen of the ultimate sexual scene where a man’s instrument enters a woman’s vagina.
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B: In “The Birds” you have a lot of people killed. H: Only four or five. Violence on the screen increases violence in people only if those people already have sick minds. I once read somewhere that a man admitted killing three women and he said he had killed the third woman after having seen “Psycho.” Well, I wanted to ask him what movie he had seen before he killed the second woman. And then we’d ban that movie, don’t you see? And then if we found out that he’d had a glass of milk before he killed the first woman, why then we’d have to outlaw milk, too, wouldn’t we? At a screening of “Psycho” a young boy came up to me--he was about 9 or 10--and he said to me, “What did you use for blood--chicken blood?” And I said, “No, I used chocolate sauce.” And he said, “Thank you.” The point is that he said what did you use. B: How’s your health? They say your weight is down from 290 to 190. H: Not quite. It’s about 225. I’m about 5 feet 8 inches, you know. It’s psychological with me. I have rather a placid personality and I think I take after my mother in that respect. We both have what used to be called the cottage-loaf figure--a big oval, and on top of that is stuck a smaller oval. B: What’s it all about, Mr. Hitchcock? Money? Power? Influence? H: As regards the money, you must remember I’ve been in the 91 per cent tax bracket for many years. I think the important thing is one’s work, using the mind, all of your talent, all of your experience. You find that as you go along one problem becomes more and more difficult: How do you avoid the cliché? As for the purpose of life, I’d say it is to lead the good life. My greatest pleasure is to arrive at home at 6 o’clock, with my wife waiting, and we have a drink together and I sit in the kitchen while she makes us some supper. And that’s the thing that keeps my weight up.
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FILMS Rebecca
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Suspicion
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Shadow of a Doubt
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Spellbound
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Notorious
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The Paradine Case
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Strangers on a Train
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Psycho
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“Those little bottles contain demons that have a way of popping out at you just as you’re trying most desperately to forget.” Rebecca
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— “Maxim” de Winter
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REBECCA
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Runtime:
2h 10min
Writers:
Daphne Du Maurier (celebrated novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screen play)
Stars:
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Release:
April 12, 1940
Color:
Black and White
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Rebecca
Plot Summary The film begins with a female voiceover: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley
The heroine rushes outside, where she hears that during the rescue a sunken boat
again”, to images of a ruined country manor. The heroine is a very young (and
has been found with Rebecca’s body in it. Maxim admits that he had earlier
nameless) woman (Joan Fontaine), a paid companion to the wealthy but obnoxious
misidentified another body as Rebecca’s, in order to conceal the truth. At the very
Edythe Van Hopper (Florence Bates). The heroine meets the aristocratic widower
beginning of their marriage Rebecca had told Maxim she intended to continue the
Maximilian (Maxim) de Winter (Laurence Olivier) in Monte Carlo. They fall in love,
promiscuous and perverse sex life she had led before the marriage. He hated her but
and within two weeks they are married.
they agreed to an arrangement: she would act as the perfect wife and hostess in public, and he would ignore Rebecca’s privately conducted affairs. Rebecca grew
Maxim takes his new bride to Manderley, his country house in Cornwall, England.
careless and complacent in her dealings, including an ongoing affair with her cousin
The housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), is domineering and cold, and is
Jack Favell. One night, Rebecca informed Maxim that she was pregnant with Favell’s
obsessed with the great beauty, intelligence and sophistication of the first Mrs. de
child. During the ensuing heated argument she fell, hit her head and died. Maxim
Winterthe eponymous Rebeccaand preserves her former bedroom as a shrine.
took the body out in a boat which he then scuttled.
Rebecca’s sleazy cousin Jack Favell (George Sanders) appears at the house when Maxim is away.
Shedding the remnants of her girlish innocence, Maxim’s wife coaches her husband on how to conceal the mode of Rebecca’s death from the authorities. In the police
The new Mrs. de Winter is intimidated by her responsibilities and begins to doubt her
investigation, deliberate damage to the boat points to suicide. Favell shows Maxim
relationship with her husband. The continuous reminders of Rebecca overwhelm
a note from Rebecca which seems to indicate she was not suicidal. Favell then tries to
her; she believes that Maxim is still deeply in love with Rebecca. She also discovers
blackmail Maxim, but Maxim tells the police. Maxim is now under suspicion of
that her husband sometimes becomes very angry at her for apparently innocent
murder. The investigation then focuses on Rebecca’s secret visit to a London doctor
actions.
(Leo G. Carroll), which Favell assumes was due to her illicit pregnancy. However, the
Trying to be the perfect wife, the young Mrs. de Winter convinces Maxim to hold a costume party as he did with Rebecca. The heroine tries to plan her own costume,
coroner’s interview with the doctor reveals that Rebecca was mistaken in believing herself pregnant; instead she had a late-stage cancer.
but Mrs. Danvers suggests she copy the beautiful outfit in the portrait of Caroline de
The doctor’s evidence persuades the coroner to render a finding of suicide. Only
Winter, an ancestor. At the party, when the costume is revealed to Maxim he is
Frank Crawley (Maxim’s best friend and manager of the estate), Maxim, and his wife
appalled; Rebecca wore the same outfit at their ball a year ago, shortly before she
will know the full story: that Rebecca lied to Maxim about being pregnant with
died. The heroine confronts Danvers, who tells her she can never take Rebecca’s
another man’s child in order to goad him into killing her, an indirect means of suicide.
place, and almost manages to convince her to jump to her death. A sudden
As Maxim returns home from London to Manderley, he finds the manor on fire, set
commotion reveals that a ship is sinking.
alight by the deranged Mrs. Danvers. The second Mrs. de Winter and the staff manage to escape the blaze, but Danvers dies in the flames.
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“You’re the first woman I’ve ever met who said yes when she meant yes.” — Johnnie Aysgarth
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Runtime:
1h 39min
Writers:
Samson Raphaelson (screen play) Joan Harrison (screen play)
Stars:
Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
Release:
November 14, 1941
Color:
Black and White
Suspicion
Plot Summary Lina McLaidlaw (Joan Fontaine) is a prim, proper English lady, and Johnnie
has indeed died mysteriously, and when Johnnie returns she finds she can no longer
Aysgarth (Cary Grant) is a suave, charming playboy. They’re as surprised as anyone
trust him. She cannot even stay in the same room at night with him, and when he
when they fall madly in love with each other, but since Lina’s stuffy parents would
brings a simple glass of milk to her before bed, Lina is filled with dread. She fears
never approve of her romance with a cad like Aysgarth, she must elope. Setting up a
that Johnnie now plots to poison her, and collect the money from her life insurance.
lovely home after a whirlwind honeymoon on the Continent, Lina begins to see another side of Johnnie; his charm and bonhomie hide the fact that he’s not only
Trying to get away while she still can, she tells Johnnie she must visit her Mother.
broke, but a very accomplished liar.
Johnnie is angry with her, but insists on driving her down the same dangerous coastal road, lined with its jagged cliffs.They speed along, Johnnie drives faster and faster,
Worried about their future, Lina presses Johnnie to find employment, and when
skirting the edge of the cliff, and veering at the last second down a “shortcut”. Lina
he comes home one day showering expensive gifts on her, she believes his story
can only ride along in terror of what Johnnie has planned.
of working for an obscure cousin, managing his estates. Dropping in one day at the office of this cousin, Lina is shocked to find that Johnnie was discharged
As he swerves around a curve, Lina’s door falls open and she nearly tumbles out over
weeks ago, and is told that she need not worry, as his former employee will
the edge of the cliff. Screaming, she clings to the car, as Johnnie’s hand reaches over.
not prosecute, at least not at this time.
Siezed with terror, she tries to avoid being pushed out, but he lunges at her, and at the last instant pulls her back into the car.
Johnnie always manages to allay Lina’s fears with his charm, but she trusts him less and less. One of his old school chums, ‘Beaky’ Thwaite (Nigel Bruce) has dropped in for a
Skidding to a stop, he demands to know what’s gotten into her. “How much can a
long visit, and Lina begins to suspect the the two of them are cooking up some scheme
man stand?” he asks. Gradually, understanding comes over her, and as Johnnie
to cover Johnnie’s gambling debts. Beaky has money but little business sense, while
explains, she realizes that he had nothing to do with Beaky’s death, and that his
Johnnie is always thinking about making money without actually working for it. They
fascination with poison is centered on himself. He meant to commit suicide
have a plan to buy some rocky coastline property and develop a seaside resort, but
rather than face his insurmountable debts, and spare his beloved Lina the shame of
Johnnie changes his mind at the last minute, so he and Beaky must go to London to
seeing him in prison. Clinging to him, she vows that they will face the future together,
dissolve their business arrangement.
and they turn the car around for home.
Lina’s suspicions get the better of her as she imagines Beaky meeting an untimely death on the dangerous road along the coast. Johnnie has been reading lots of murder mysteries, intrigued with the techniques of poisoning someone without leaving a trace. When the police come calling a day later, she learns that Beaky
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“And at night you sleep your untroubled ordinary little sleep, filled with peaceful stupid dreams. And I brought you nightmares.” — Charlie Oakley
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SHADOW OF A DOUBT
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Runtime:
1h 48min
Writers:
Thornton Wilder (screenplay), Sally Benson (screenplay)
Stars:
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Release:
January 15, 1943
Color:
Black and White
Shadow of a Doubt
Plot Summary The Newton family leads a quiet life in Santa Rosa, California. The Newton’s
At dinner, Charlotte keeps humming her tune and asks around whether anyone
eldest daughter, “young Charlie”, decides that things need brightening up and
recognizes it. Her father says it’s clearly a waltz, Oakley says he thinks it’s The Blue
resolves to contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she is named) and invite him to
Danube, but when she starts to say the right title, The Merry Widow, uncle Charlie
stay. On arrival at the telegraph office, she discovers he is already on his way. However,
spills a glass of wine onto the mantel. [NOTE: The tune is The Merry Widow]
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
Two men, Herbert “Herbie” Hawkins (Hume Cronyn) and Joe, young Charlie’s
of several rich east coast widows.
father, discuss what they would do if one of them would desire to kill somebody. One says that he would do it disguising the murder as a suicide.
Her mother Emma “Emmy” Oakley-Norton (Patricia Collinge) is radiant with pleasure at the prospect of seeing her youngest brother. She picks up
Oakley picks up the newspaper and begins reading. He notices a story that has
the humming of the tune. Neither she nor Charlotte are able to identify it.
special significance, takes out the pages, and calls the younger kids, Ann and Roger, to see how he can fold the double sheet so it looks like a house, tearing out
Oakley, on the train towards Santa Rosa, has kept out of sight behind Pullman
rectangular holes for a door and a window. They reassemble the paper without
curtains. As he gets off the train he walks looking downward and uses a cane as an
the pages used for the house, since the father hasn’t seen the paper yet, and he
old frail person might. The train clerk (Clarence Muse) offers to help him, as do a
hides the torn page in his coat pocket.
doctor (Edward Fielding) and his wife (Sarah Edwards) but Oakley pretends to be a grumpy person and rejects everybody’s help. However, as he sees the family coming,
Later, young Charlie notices the hidden newspaper pages. She tells him that now she
his walk becomes completely normal and he is effusively greeted. Emmy is not there,
will know what his secret is, as she believes that he appeared in the newspaper. He tells
but the father, young Charlie, and her siblings nerdy Ann (Edna May Wonacott) and
her that the worrying news story was not about him, but about somebody he used to
Roger (Charles Bates) are there waiting for uncle Charlie.
know. Young Charlie steals the cut outs from her uncle’s coat pocket. She unfolds them and starts looking for something significant, but uncle Charlie becomes a bit violent,
There is much joy as he arrives at the Newton house and gives presents all around.
tugging her arm. She gets scared, but uncle Charlie dismisses it alleging it was not a
Charlotte gets a special ring with a large emerald. Young Charlie says that her
nice story about a friend of his.
mother is right when she says that she and uncle Charlie are so similar, like twins. She makes a comment that he always keeps a secret side of himself, and he tells her
Soon after, Oakley learns that his sister has made an appointment with two men,
that she shouldn’t guess everything about him. She notices some engraved initials
one younger, one middle aged, who claim to be making a census type survey for an
inside the ring and asks her uncle about it, but Oakley claims no knowledge the
agency, claiming that the Newtons are a typical American family, and that they
initials were there, alleging that the jeweller lied to him, selling a second-hand ring
would be coming later to ask questions and take photographs. Emmy tells him
instead of a brand new one.
with excitement about their upcoming fame. Emmy mentions the only existing photograph of uncle Charlie when he was much younger. She tells young Charlie how her uncle had to stay in bed for a long time when he was a child, and when he recovered he started to behave like a troublesome boy.
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— Dr. Alexander Brulov
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SPELLBOUND
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Runtime:
1h 51min
Writers:
Ben Hecht (screen play), John Palmer (suggested by novel: “The House of Dr. Edwardes”)
Stars:
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Release:
December 28, 1945 (USA)
Color:
Black and White
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Spellbound
Plot Summary The Newton family leads a quiet life in Santa Rosa, California. The Newton’s eldest
At dinner, Charlotte keeps humming her tune and asks around whether anyone
daughter, “young Charlie”, decides that things need brightening up and resolves to
recognizes it. Her father says it’s clearly a waltz, Oakley says he thinks it’s The
contact her Uncle Charlie (after whom she is named) and invite him to stay. On
Blue Danube, but when she starts to say the right title, The Merry Widow, uncle
arrival at the telegraph office, she discovers he is already on his way. However, Uncle
Charlie spills a glass of wine onto the mantel.
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
Two men, Herbert “Herbie” Hawkins (Hume Cronyn) and Joe, young Charlie’s
several rich east coast widows.
father, discuss what they would do if one of them would desire to kill somebody. One says that he would do it disguising the murder as a suicide.
Her mother Emma “Emmy” Oakley-Norton (Patricia Collinge) is radiant with pleasure at the prospect of seeing her youngest brother. She picks up the humming of the tune.
Oakley picks up the newspaper and begins reading. He notices a story that has special
Neither she nor Charlotte are able to identify it.
significance, takes out the pages, and calls the younger kids, Ann and Roger, to see how he can fold the double sheet so it looks like a house, tearing out rectangular holes
Oakley, on the train towards Santa Rosa, has kept out of sight behind Pullman
for a door and a window. They reassemble the paper without the pages used for the
curtains. As he gets off the train he walks looking downward and uses a cane as
house, since the father hasn’t seen the paper yet, and he hides in his coat pocket.
an old frail person might. The train clerk (Clarence Muse) offers to help him, as do a doctor (Edward Fielding) and his wife (Sarah Edwards) but Oakley pretends to
Later, young Charlie notices the hidden newspaper pages. She tells him that now she
be a grumpy person and rejects everybody’s help. However, as he sees the family
will know what his secret is, as she believes that he appeared in the newspaper. He tells
coming, his walk becomes completely normal and he is effusively greeted. Emmy
her that the worrying news story was not about him, but about somebody he used to
is not there, but the father, young Charlie, and her siblings nerdy Ann (Edna May
know. Young Charlie steals the cut outs from her uncle’s coat pocket. She unfolds them
Wonacott) and Roger (Charles Bates) are there waiting for uncle Charlie.
and starts looking for something significant, but uncle Charlie becomes a bit violent, tugging her arm. She gets scared, but uncle Charlie dismisses it alleging it was not a
There is much joy as he arrives at the Newton house and gives presents all around.
nice story about a friend of his.
Charlotte gets a special ring with a large emerald. Young Charlie says that her mother is right when she says that she and uncle Charlie are so similar, like twins.
Soon after, Oakley learns that his sister has made an appointment with two men, one
She makes a comment that he always keeps a secret side of himself, and he tells
younger, one middle aged, who claim to be making a census type survey for an agency,
her that she shouldn’t guess everything about him. She notices some engraved
claiming that the Newtons are a typical American family, and that they would be
initials inside the ring and asks her uncle about it, but Oakley claims no knowledge
coming later to ask questions and take photographs. Emmy tells him with excitement
the initials were there, alleging that the jeweller lied to him, selling a second-hand
about their upcoming fame. Emmy mentions the only existing photograph of uncle
ring instead of a brand new one.
Charlie when he was much younger. She tells young Charlie how her uncle had to stay in bed for a long time when he was a child, and when he recovered he started to behave like a troublesome boy.
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NOTORIOUS
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Runtime:
1h 42min
Writers:
Ben Hecht
Stars:
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Release:
September 6, 1946 (USA)
Color:
Black and White
Notorious
Plot Summary After her Nazi father is convicted of treason by a Miami, Florida jury, German-born
At a dinner party at Alex’s home, Alicia notices one of the guests, Emil Hupka,
Alicia Huberman tries to forget her pain by throwing a loud party and flirting with
gesture nervously at a wine bottle sitting on a mantle. Later, Alex and his other male
uninvited guest T. R. Devlin. Late that evening, an intoxicated Alicia takes Devlin on
guests discuss Hupka’s improper dinner behavior and agree that he must be
a drive and is stopped for speeding by a motorcycle officer. When Devlin flashes his
eliminated, a job the sinister Eric Mathis eagerly assumes. Soon after, Alicia reports
official credentials, however, the officer allows Alicia to go without a ticket. Alicia,
to Devlin, who is posing as a public relations representative, at a Rio racetrack and
who has been hounded by reporters and police, is infuriated at Devlin and
tells him with sarcasm that the love struck Alex is her new “playmate.” Devlin reacts
denounces him as a double-crossing “cop.”
to the remark with disgust, but easily plays the part of Alicia’s rejected lover in front of Alex. When a jealous Alex then questions Alicia about Devlin, she reassures him
Although Devlin disapproves of Alicia’s self-destructive, promiscuous life style, he is
that the handsome American “means nothing” to her.
confident of her patriotic feelings toward America, having heard secretly recorded comments she has made, and offers her a job infiltrating a Nazi industrial combine
A short time later, Alicia pays an unexpected call on Prescott and Devlin and informs
in Brazil. The embittered Alicia at first rejects Devlin’s offer, but eventually agrees to
them that Alex has proposed to her. Although stunned by the news, Devlin once again
accompany him to Rio de Janeiro. While waiting for her assignment, Alicia enjoys a
refuses to interfere, and a heartbroken Alicia agrees to the marriage. After a brief
romantic, carefree week in Rio and proudly tells Devlin she is a changed woman.
honeymoon, the newlyweds return to Alex’s house, where his domineering mother
Devlin is skeptical about her reformation, but nonetheless finds himself falling in love
Anna views her new daughter-in-law with jealous disdain. Alicia immediately inspects
with her.
the layout of the house and learns from butler Joseph that only Alex has the key to the house’s large wine cellar
The couple’s newfound bliss is short lived, however, as Devlin’s boss, Paul Prescott, informs him that Alicia’s assignment is to woo her former suitor, German-born Alexander Sebastian, and determine what his war machine combine is manufacturing. Although Alicia is conflicted, Devlin refuses to tell her what to do, and believing that he doesn’t truly love her, she accepts the assignment. Devlin, in turn, views Alicia’s acceptance as proof of her fickleness. As pre-arranged, Alicia encounters Alex while riding in a park and encourages him to pursue her.
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Runtime:
2h 5min
Writers:
Robert Hichens (from the novel by) Alma Reville (adaptation)
Stars:
Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton
Release:
June 24, 1948
Color:
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Plot Summary The police arrest Maddalena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) for poisoning her late
pounding on Col Paradine’s bedroom door, and saw Maddalena enter her room
husband, Col. Paradine. She claims innocence, and hires solicitor Sir Simon Flaquer
after he started. Andre said the brandy glass still had a few drops when he forced his
(Charles Coburn) and barrister Anthony (a.k.a Tony) Keane (Gregory Peck, with an
way inside. However, the police found the brandy glass cleaned and wiped. Just
occasional British accent) as her defense team. Anthony Keane is very successful
before the trial starts, Andre warns Keane that Maddalena is evil and he hates her
and happy at both his career and in his marriage with Gay (Anne Todd). Sir Flaquer
because she brought so much turmoil into their lives.
and Keane have been friends for many years, and Gay considers Judy Flaquer (Joan Tetzel) her best friend. The presiding judge, Lord Thomas Horfield (Charles
As a defense witness, Andre claims that Col. Paradine dismissed him as his valet,
Laughton) and his wife, Lady Sophie (Ethel Barrymore) represent the legal and
but to be reassigned to some other household role. He did put down the Colonel's
popular views about the case.
hunting dog last year, but claimed to have disposed of the poison at that time. The glass still contained some brandy when he went to find the butler and call the
During the pretrial period, Keane’s affections changes, as he falls under Maddalena’s
doctor. Under more pressure, Andre reveals that he was Maddalena's lover and
spell, starting at their first meeting. Gay Keane realizes her husband has fallen for Mrs.
had confessed to Col. Paradine that day. At this point,Maddalena forces Keane to
Paradine. She confides in Judy, who advises her to confront Keane about this. But Gay
stop this line of questions. Disillusioned, Keane realizes that she has hidden motives
refuses to leave or condemn him She knows he still loves and values her, because Keane
for both her husband's murder and not implicating Andre as the murderer. The next
has not chosen to leave, yet. In fact, Gay wants Mrs. Paradine to be acquitted so she
day, Keane puts her on the stand and proceeds to question her relationship with
can fight against a living woman instead of a lost love.
Andre. Shortly after this begins, Sir Flaquer tells Keane of Andre's suicide. At this news, Maddalena breaks down and confesses to poisoning her husband out of
The suspects narrow down to Maddalena or Andre LaTour (Louis Jourdan), Col
love for Andre, who had come to hate her for betraying his Colonel. She receives
Paradine’s valet of many years. She claims to love her blind husband. Their marriage
the death sentence, and Keane goes back to his wife, sadder but more appreciative
had no problems. Andre argued with Col. Paradine earlier that night, about an
of his wife's love.
unknown subject, and was dismissed. There is great uncertainty in the motives and actions of many people that fateful evening. The butler brought Col Paradine that glass of brandy, something he rarely requested at bedtime. Maddalena claims to have laid out her husband’s sleepwear but did not go near the brandy. Andre was
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Runtime:
1h 41min
Writers:
Raymond Chandler (screen play) Czenzi Ormonde (screen play)
Stars:
Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Release:
June 30, 1951
Color:
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Strangers on a Train
Plot Summary Amateur Tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) wants to divorce his vulgar and
when tracked down by the police. Guy’s chances of being implicated increase when
unfaithful wife Miriam (Laura Elliott), so he can marry the elegant and beautiful Anne
Bruno appears repeatedly around Washington to remind Guy that he is now obliged
Morton (Ruth Roman), daughter of a senator (Leo G. Carroll). While on a train to his
to kill Bruno’s father.
hometown Metcalf to meet Miriam, Haines encounters Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) when they bump feet under a table, a pushy stranger who recognizes Guy from the sports pages and gossip items in the newspapers and wants to discuss his marital problems. During lunch in Bruno’s compartment, Bruno tells Guy about his idea for the perfect “crisscross” murders: he will kill Guy’s wife Miriam, and in exchange Guy will kill Bruno’s domineering father. Since they are unconnected strangers, there is no identifiable motive for the crimes, and therefore no suspicion from the police. Guy hurriedly departs the compartment, but leaves Bruno thinking he has agreed to the deal by agreeing that the theory is OK and that he likes it just so he can get clear of Bruno. Guy accidentally leaves behind his monogrammed cigarette lighter, engraved ‘From A to G’ and a gift from Anne, that he lent Bruno. Guy meets Miriam at her work
Bruno sends Guy the keys to his house, a map to his father’s room, and a pistol. Soon after, Bruno appears at a party at Senator Morton’s house and hobnobs with the guests, much to Guy’s apprehension and Anne’s increasing suspicion. Using another guest, he demonstrates how to strangle someone while preventing them from screaming; while doing this he sees Anne’s younger sister Barbara (Patricia Hitchcock). Her eyeglasses and resemblance to Miriam trigger a flashback, and Bruno goes into a trance and really begins to strangle the guest before he faints. Barbara rushes to her sister and tells her, “His hands were on her throat ... but he was strangling me.” Anne notices the resemblance between her sister and Miriam and puts together the facts of the crime and confronts Guy, who admits the truth.
in advance of going to meet her lawyer on the divorce. Miriam calls off the divorce, says
Guy agrees to Bruno’s plan over the telephone and creeps into Bruno’s home at night.
she is pregnant with another man’s child, and wants to go to Washington and play the
When he reaches the father’s room he tries to warn the older man of Bruno’s intentions,
political wife. Guy threatens Miriam and the encounter becomes physical until it is
but finds Bruno waiting for him instead. Bruno tells Guy that, because he will not
broken up. An upset Guy then calls Anne and tells her he wants to break Miriam’s neck
complete his end of the bargain, he should take responsibility for the murder which
and could strangle her. Bruno calls Guy on the phone and finds out that the divorce is
“belongs” to him and pay for the crime from which he is benefiting and to that end
off and that Miriam has double-crossed Guy. In the background, Bruno’s father is
Bruno will frame Guy for the murder of Miriam.
talking to his wife about restraining Bruno and getting him under control. Anne visits Bruno’s house and tells his befuddled mother (Marion Lorne) that her son Bruno arrives in Guy’s hometown and follows Miriam and her two beaus to an
is responsible for murder, but the woman does not believe her and will not admit how
amusement park, where he creepily follows the threesome around. He follows them on
dangerous her son is. Bruno overhears the conversation and tells Anne that Guy had
a boat ride to an island and strangles Miriam to death. Guy is wanted by the police for
asked him to go to the murder site and retrieve Guy’s lighter. Anne tells Guy who knows
questioning as he has motive and is the prime suspect. Guy’s alibi, a college professor
that he has Guy’s lighter and that he now plans to plant it at the scene of Miriam’s
who was inebriated when they met on a train, cannot remember Guy or anything else
murder. Anne and Guy devise a plan so that Guy can beat Bruno to the scene of the crime by nightfall while not missing his scheduled tennis match at Forest Hills.
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Runtime:
1h 49min
Writers:
Joseph Stefano (screenplay by) Robert Bloch (based on the novel by)
Stars:
Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
Release:
September 8, 1960
Color:
Black and White
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Psycho
Plot Summary In a Phoenix hotel room on a Friday afternoon, Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and
As night falls on this second day, with her fears of pursuit crowding in around her,
her out-of-town lover Sam Loomis (John Gavin) end a stolen lunchtime interlude
she drives into a rainstorm. Unable to see the road clearly, she spots the lighted
with yet another disagreement about their future. Marion wants to marry Sam,
sign of the Bates Motel, and decides to take a room for the night. As there are no
but debts inherited from his father and his own alimony payments do not leave
other cars there, and no one in the motel office, she honks her horn upon seeing a
him enough money to support her as he would like. As they have done so often
light on in the house behind the motel, and a silhouette in the window. Someone
before on Sam’s business trips to Phoenix, they part leaving their future uncertain.
dashes down the path to greet her, and he introduces himself as Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins). He is soft-spoken and shy young man who tells Marion that he
Marion returns to the real estate office where she works as a secretary, arriving
lives in the large house with his mother. He comments that the motel seldom has
just ahead of her boss Mr. Lowery (Vaughn Taylor) and his client Cassidy (Frank
guests anymore since the new interstate bypassed the local highway, and Marion
Albertson) who buys a house from Lowery with $40,000 in cash. Lowery tells
realizes that she probably took a wrong turn in the storm. Still nervous about
Marion to put the money in the safe deposit box at the bank until Monday.
being tracked by the police, Marion registers under a false name, and Norman
Pleading a headache, Marion asks to take the rest of the day off after her errand
checks her into Cabin 1 just next to the office. When she asks about food, Marion
to the bank.
learns that Fairvale is only fifteen miles away.
But Marion doesn’t go to the bank. On the spur of the moment, she decides to
Norman offers to share his supper with her so she doesn’t have to go out again
keep the money, packs a suitcase, and starts driving out of town, only to be
in the rain, and he goes back to the house. She begins unpacking, taking time to
spotted by her boss at an intersection where he gives her a suspicious look.
wrap the money inside a newspaper which she sets aside on the bed table. Then
Worried that she has been found out already, she still proceeds out of town on her
she overhears a shouted argument between Norman and his mother coming
way to Fairvale, California, where Sam lives. All the while she keeps looking
from the house. Mother Bates seems to have a low opinion of young women,
behind her, fearful that she’s being followed. She drives well into the night and
and doesn’t want Norman associating with them. Norman returns to the motel
parks alongside the road to sleep.
with sandwiches and milk and invites Marion to join him in the parlor just
Realizing that her car can easily give her away, Marion decides to trade it in for a
behind the check-in desk.
different car. She stops in at a used car lot, hurriedly pays the salesman (John
Marion is taken aback by the stuffed birds that fill the parlor, a product of his
Anderson) $700 cash for a likely substitute, and completes the deal as the same
taxidermy hobby. In their conversation over sandwiches, Norman talks about
highway patrolman watches from across the street. Nervous, she drives away and
being trapped. Just as Marion presently feels trapped by her recent hasty decision,
continues toward Fairvale.
Norman is more permanently trapped in his co-existence with his mother and her madness. But as Norman observes, “we all go a little mad sometimes.” Taking Norman’s situation as a cautionary tale, Marion decides to return to Phoenix to make amends, and try to pull herself out of the trap she’s gotten herself into before it’s too late.
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FESTIVAL About 2029
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ABOUT 2029 August 13, 2029 — August 16, 2029 It will be held to commemorate the time when Hitchcock first entered Hollywood and the 130th anniversary of his birthday. By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood. A string of successful films followed, including Rebecca (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and Notorious (1946). Rebecca won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for Lifeboat (1944) and Spellbound (1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
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ABOUT LURKING IN THE SHADOWS Unaware people going about their normal life and still feel a sense of fear, because they don’t know where the danger comes from or when it come. They try to avoid this fear, but in the end they find that the fear doesn’t comes from the outside, but from their inner anxiety about the unknown. Hitchcock harked back and forth on his own ideas of suspense and horror in each of his films. The deepest horror, he thought, came not from a physical representation, but from a mind that felt uneasy even in the midst of a crowd. It's a tragedy that can actually happen, and caused by distorted human nature. It's a sense of insecurity that you feel all the time. In general, fear not comes from the monsters you can fight back, but from lines of sight lurking in the shadows.
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SCHEDULE
Rebecca / 1940 Suspicion / 1941
Shadow of a Doubt / 1943 Spellbound / 1945
4:00pm
Festival Opening.
4:00pm
Screening of Shadow of a Doubt.
5:00pm
Screening of Rebecca
6:00pm
Exhibition
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7:00pm
Dining
7:45pm
Dining
8:00pm
Screening of Suspicion
8:30pm
Screening of Spellbound
Schedule
Notorious / 1946 The Paradine Case / 1947
Strangers on a Train / 1951 Psycho / 1960
4:00pm
Screening of Notorious.
4:00pm
Screening of Strangers on a Train.
6:00pm
Exhibition
6:00pm
Dining
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7:45pm
Dining
7:45pm
Screening of Psycho
8:30pm
Screening of The Paradine Case
9:00pm
Closing Ceremony
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LOCATION Stage 18 100 Universal City Plaza Los Angeles A Soundstage studio set in Universal Studio, TI chose this place not only because Hitchcock was shooting in this type of studio, but because I wanted to create a fake scene such as a warm kitchens and blank curtains. I wanted to show Hitchcockian fear in this carefully designed, outwardly warm scene. Stage 18 / 100 Universal City Plaza Los Angeles (818) 777 5000 Service.center@nbcuni.com
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Event / 1 A film will be projected onto the stage, allowing guests to watch Hitchcock films in an unfurnished but furnished setting.
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Event / 2 During the festival, the venue will open an exhibition of Hitchcock’s films and contributions during the rotation. For a long time, Hitchcock has been remembered and commemorated in a never-ending way, and this will be the story of Hitchcock behind the scenes. The exhibition will show the story behind each film.
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“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.” — Alfred Hitchcock
CREDITS
Table of Contents:
Photo by: David O. Selznick Photo from: Newyork Times Photo From: Tony Evans Photo From: MoMa
Introduction:
Photo by: Peter Dunne, Express.
Film Picture:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; photograph from a private collection Paramount Film Corporation. www.leninimports.com
Awards:
Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, and George Stevens Jr. in The American Film Institute Salute to Alfred Hitchcock (1979) Photo From IMDB
Interview:
“Hitchcock/Truffaut,”
The Film of Alfred Hitchcock August 13-16, 2029 Universal Studio, Stage 18. 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City lurkingshadows.com