Hitchcock
1927
DOWNHILL (U.S.A.: When Boys Leave Home) Production:
Michael Balcon, Gainsborough, 1927, G.B. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Eliot Stannard, from the play by Ivor Novello and Constance Collier, written under the pseudonym of David Lestrange. Director of Photography: Claude McDonnell. Editing: Ivor Montagu. Studio: Islington. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1928, 6,500 feet; U.S.A., World Wide Dist., 1928. Principal Actors: Ivor Novello (Roddy Berwick), Ben Webster (Doctor Dowson), Robin Irvine (Tim Wakely), Sybil Rhoda (Sybil Wakely), Lillian Braithwaite (Lady Berwick) and Hannah Jones, Violet Farebrother, Isabel Jeans, Norman McKinnel, Jerrold Robertshaw, Annette Benson, Ian Hunter, Barbara Gott, Alfred Goddard.
EASY VIRTUE
Production: Michael Balcon, Gainsborough Prod., 1927. Director: Alfred Hitchcock Scenario: Eliot Stannard, from the play by Noel Coward. Director of Photography: Claude McDonnell. Editing: hor Montagu. Studio: Islington. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1927, 6,500 feet; U.S.A., World Wide Dist., 1928. Principal Actors: Isabel Jean (Larita Filton), Franklin Dyall (M. Filton), Eric Bransby Williams (the correspondent), Ian Hunter (Plaintiff’s Counsel), Robin Irvine (John Whittaker), Violet Fare-brother (his mother, Mrs. Whittaker) and Frank Elliot, Darcia Deane, Dorothy Boyd, Enid Stamp-Taylor.
THE RING
Production: British International Pictures, 1927, G.B. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: A. Hitchcock. Adaptation: Alma Reville. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Assistant Director: Frank Mills. Studio: Elstrcc Distributors: Wardour & F., 1927; France, Pathé Consortium Cinéma, 1928. Principal Actors: Carl Brisson (Jack Sander called “Round One”), Lillian Hall-Davies (Nelly), Ian Hunter (Bob Corby, the champion), Forrester Harvey (Harry, the traveling showman of the ring) and Harry Terry, Gordon Harker, Billy Wells.
1928
THE FARMER’S WIFE
Production: British International Pictures, 1928, G.B. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Alfred Hitchcock, from the play by Eden Philpotts. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Assistant Director: Frank Mills. Editing: Alfred Booth. Studio: Elstree. Location Work: Wales. Distributors: Wardour & F., 67 minutes; France, Pathé Consortium Cinéma, 1928. Principal Actors: Lillian Hall-Davies (Araminta Dench, the young maid), James Thomas (Samuel Sweetland), Maud Gill (Thirza Tapper), Gordon Harker (Cheirdles Ash), and Louise Pounds, Olga Slade, Antonia Brough.
CHAMPAGNE
Production: British International Pictures, 1928, G.B. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Eliot Stannard. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Studio: Elstree. Distributor: Wardour & F., 1928. Principal Actors: Betty Balfour (Betty), Gordon Harker (her father), Ferdinand Von Alten (the passenger), Jean Bradin (the young man), and Jack Trevor, Marcel Vibert.
CHAMPAGNE (German version)
Production: Sascha Film—British International Piet., 1929. Director: Gaza von Bolvary. Principal Actors: Betty Balfour, Vivian Gibson, Jack Trevor, Marcel Vibert.
1929
HARMONY HEAVEN
Production: British International Pictures, 1929. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Musical part: directed by Eddie Pola. Lyrical part: directed by Edward Brandt. Distributor: France-Société des Ciné-romans, 1929.
THE MANXMAN
Production: British International Pictures, 1929, G.B. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Eliot Stannard, from the novel by Sir Hall Cainc. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Assistant Director: Frank Mills. Studio: Elstrcc. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1929, U.S.A., Ufa Eastman Division, 1929. Principal Actors: Carl Brisson (Pete), Malcolm Keen (Philip), Anny Ondra (Kate), Randíe Ayrton (her father) and Clare Greet. The Manxman was Alfred Hitchcock’s last silent film.
BLACKMAIL
Production: British International Pictures, 1929, G.B. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: A. Hitchcock, Benn W. Levy and Charles Bennett, from the play by Charles Bennett. Adaptation: A. Hitchcock. Dialogue: Benn W. Levy. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Sets: Wilfred C. Arnold and Norman Arnold. Music: Campbell and Connely, finished and arranged by Hubert Bath and Henry Stafford, performed by the British Symphony Orchestra under the direction of John Reynders. Editing: Emile de Ruelle. Studio: Elstree. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1929, 7,136 feet; U.S.A., Sono Art World Wide Piet., 1930. Principal Actors: Anny Ondra (Alice White), Sara All-good (Mrs. White), John Londgcn (Frank Webber, the detective), Charles Paton (Mr. White), Donald Calthrop (Tracy), Cyril Ritchard (the artist), and Harvey Braban, Hannah Jones, Phyllis Monkman, ex-detective Sergeant Bishop. (Joan Barry played Anny Ondra’s part in the talkie version.)
1930
ELSTREE CALLING
Production: British International Pictures, 1930. Director: Alfred Hitchcock, André Chariot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray. Supervision: Adrian Brunei. Scenario: Val Valentine. Director of Photography: Claude Freise Greene. Music: Reg Casson, Vivian Ellis, Chic Endor. Lyrics: Ivor Novello and Jack Strachey Parsons. Sound engineer: Alex Murray (Alfred Hitchcock directed Gordon Harker). There was a burlesque, “The Taming of the Shrew,” starring Anna May Wong and Donald Calthrop, which was one of the best scenes in the movie. The reason for this burlesque was the appearance of a film “The Taming of the Shrew,” starring Mary Pick-ford and Douglas Fairbanks.
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK
Production: British International Pictures, 1930. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, from the play by Sean O’Casey, Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Sets: Norman Arnold. Editing: Emile de Ruelle. Studio: Elstree. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1939, 85 minutes; U.S.A., British International by Capt. Harold Auten, 1930. Principal Actors: Sara Allgood (Juno), Edward Chapman (Captain Boyle), Sidney Morgan (Joxer), Marie O’Neill (Mrs. Madi-gan), and John Laurie, Dennis Wyndham, John Longdcn, Kathleen O’Regan, Dave Morris, Fred Schwartz.
MURDER
Production: British International Pictures, 1930, G.B. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Alma Reville, from the work by Clémence Dane (pseudonym of Winifred Ashton) and Helen Simpson, “Enter Sir John.” Adaptation: A. Hitchcock and Walter Mycroft. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Sets: John Mead. Editing: René Harrison. Supervision: Emile de Ruelle. Studio: Elstree. Distributor: Wardour & F., 1930, 92 minutes. Principal Actors: Herbert Marshall (Sir John Menier), Nora Baring (Diana Baring), Phyllis Konstam (Dulcie Markham), Edward Chapman (Ted Markham), Miles Mander (Gordon Druce), Esme Percy (Handel Fane), Donald Calthrop (Ion Stewart) and Amy Brandon Thomas, Joynson Powell, Esme V. Chaplin, Marie Wright, S. J. Warmington, Hannah Jones, R. E. Jeffrey, Alan Stainer, Kenneth Kove, Guy Pelham, Matthew Boulton, Violet Farebrother, Ross Jefferson, Clare Greet, Drusilla Vills, Robert Easton, William Fazan, George Smythson.
MARY (German version of MURDER)
Production: Sud Film A.G., 1930 Director: A. Hitchcock. Studio: Elstree. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Principal Actors: Alfred Abel, Olga Tchekowa, Paul Graetz, Lotte Stein, E. Arenot, Jack Nylong-Munz, Louis Ralph, Hermine Stcrler, Fritz Alberti, Hertha V. Walter, Else Schunzel, Julius Brandt, Rudolph Meinhardt Junger, Fritz Grossmann, Lucie Eulcr, Harry Hardt, H. Gotho, Eugen Burg.
1931
THE SKIN GAME
Production: British International Pictures, 1931. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: A. Hitchcock and Alma Reville, from the play by John Galsworthy. Additional Dialogues: Alma Reville. Director of Photography: Jack Cox, assisted by Charles Martin. Editing: René Harrison and A. Gobett. Studio: Elstree. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1931, 85 minutes; U.S.A., British International, 1931. Principal Actors: Edmund Gwenn (Mr. Hornblower), Jill Esmond (Jill), John Longden (Charles), C. V. France (Mr. Hillcrest), Helen Haye (Mrs. Hillcrest), Phyllis Konstam (Chloe), Frank Lawton (Rolfe) and Herbert Ross, Dora Gregory, Edward Chapman, R. E. Jeffrey, George Bancroft, Ronald Frankau.
1932
RICH AND STRANGE (U.S.A.: East of Shanghai) Production: British International Pictu
res, 1932, G.B. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Alma Reville and Val Valentine, from a theme by Dale Collins. Adaptation: Alfred Hitchcock. Directors of Photography: Jack Cox and Charles Martin. Sets: C. Wilfred Arnold. Music: Hal Dolphe, directed by John Reynders. Editing: Winifred Cooper and René Harrison. Sound Engineer: Alec Murray. Studio: Elstrcc. Location Work: Marseilles, Port-Said, Colombo, Suez. Distributors: Wardour & F., 1932, 83 minutes; U.S.A., Powers Pictures, 1932. Principal Actors: Henry Kendall (Fredy Hill), Joan Barry (Emily Hill), Betty Amann (the princess), Percy Marmont (Gordon), Elsie Randolph (the old lady).
NUMBER SEVENTEEN
Production: British International Pictures, 1932. Producer: John Maxwell. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: A. Hitchcock, from the play and the novel by Jefferson Farjeon. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Studio: Elstree. Distributor: Wardour & F., 1932. Principal Actors: Léon M. Lion (Ben), Anne Grey (the young girl), John Stuart (the detective), and Donald Calthrop, Barry Jones, Garry Marsh.
LORD CAMBER’S LADIES
Production: Alfred Hitchcock, British International Pictures, 1932, G.B. Director: Benn W. Levy. Scenario: Benn W. Levy, from the play by Horace Annesley Vachell “The Case of Lady Camber.” Studio: Elstree. Distributor: Wardour & F., 1932. Principal Actors: Gertrude Lawrence (Lady Camber), Sir Gerald du Maurier (Lord Camber) and Benita Hume, Nigel Bruce.
1933
WALTZES FROM VIENNA (U.S.A.: Strauss Great Waltz)
Production: Gaumont British, by G.F.D., 1933, G.B. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Alma Reville and Guy Bolton, from the play by Guy Bolton. Sets: Alfred Junge and Peter Proud. Music: Johann Strauss the Elder and Strauss the Younger. Studio: Lime Grove. Distributors: G.F.D., 1933, 80 minutes; U.S.A., Tom Arnold, 1935. Principal Actors: Jessie Matthews (Rasi), Esmond Knight (Shani Strauss), Frank Vosper (the prince), Fay Compton (the countess), Edmund Gwenn (Johann Strauss the Elder), Robert Hale (Ebezeder), Hindle Edgar (Leopold), Marcus Barron (Drexter), Charles Heslop, Sybil Grove, Billy Shine Junior, Bertram Dench, B. M. Lewis, Cyril Smith, Betty Huntley Wright, Berinoff and Chariot.
1934
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Production: Gaumont British Pictures, Great Britain, 1934. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Producers: Michael Balcon; Associate, Ivor Montagu. Scenario: A. R. Rawlinson, Charles Bennett, D. B. Wyndham Lewis, Edwin Greenwood, from an original theme by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Additional Dialogue: Emlyn Williams. Director of Photography: Curt Courant. Sets: Alfred Junge and Peter Proud. Music: Arthur Benjamin, directed by Louis Levy. Editing: H. St. C. Stewart. Studio: Lime Grove. Distributors: G.F.D., 1934, 84 minutes; France, U.S.A., G.B. Prod., 1935. Principal Actors: Leslie Banks (Bob Lawrence), Edna Best (Jill Lawrence), Peter Lorre (Abbott), Frank Vosper (Ramon Levine). Hugh Wakefield (Clive), Nova Pilbeam (Betty Lawrence), Pierre Fresnay (Louis Bernard) and Cicely Oates, D. A. Clarke Smith, George Curzon.
1935
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
Production: Gaumont British, 1935. Producers: Michael Balcon, with Ivor Montagu as Associate Producer. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario and adaptation: Charles Bennett and Alma Reville from the novel by John Buchan. Additional Dialogue: Ian Hay. Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles. Sets: Otto Werndorff and Albert Jullion. Costumes: J. Strassner. Music: Louis Levy. Editing: Derek N. Twist. Sound Engineer: A. Birch, Full Range Recording System At Shepherd’s Bush, London. Studio: Lime Grove. Distributors: G.F.D., 1935, 81 minutes; France, G.E.C.E., 1935, (excluding F.I.C.). Principal Actors: Madeleine Carroll (Pamela), Robert Donat (Richard Hannay), Lucie Mannheim (Miss Smith-Annabella), Godfrey Tearle (Professor Jordan), Peggy Ashcroft (Mrs. Crofter), John Laurie (Crofter, the farmer), Helen Have (Mrs. Jordan), Frank Cellier (the Sheriff), Wylie Watson (Memory).
1936
THE SECRET AGENT
Production: Gaumont British, 1936. Producers: Michael Balcon and Ivor Montagu. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Charles Bennett, from the play by Campbell Dixon adapted from the novel by Somerset Maugham “Ashenden.” Adaptation: Alma Reville. Dialogues: Ian Hay and Jesse Lasky Jr. Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles. Sets: Otto Werndorff and Albert Jullion. Costumes: J. Strasser. Music: Louis Levy. Editing: Charles Frend. Studio: Lime Grove. Distributors: G.F.D., 1936, 83 minutes; U.S.A., G.B. Prod., 1936. Principal Actors: Madeleine Carroll (Elsa Carrington), John Gielgud (Richard Ashenden), Peter Lorre (the General), Robert Young (Robert Marvin) and Percy Marmont, Florence Kahn, Lilli Palmer, Charles Carson, Michael Redgrave.
SABOTAGE (U.S.A.: A Woman Alone)
Production: Shepherd, Gaumont-British Pictures, L936. Producers: Michael Balcon and Ivor Montagu. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Charles Bennett, from the novel by Joseph Conrad, “The Secret Agent.” Adaptation: Alma Revillc. Dialogues: Ian Hay, Helen Simpson and E. V. II. Emmett. Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles. Sets: Otto Werndorff and Albert Jullion. Music: Louis Levy. Costumes: J. Strassner. Editing: Charles Frend. Studio: Lime Grove. Cartoon: Sequence of “Who Killed Cock Robin?” Silly Symphony of Walt Disney, used with his agreement. Distributors: G.F.D., 1936, 76 minutes; U.S.A., G.B. Prod., 1937. Principal Actors: Sylvia Sidney (Sylvia Verloc), Oscar Homolka (Verloc, her husband), Desmond Tester (Sylvia’s brother), John Loder (Ted, the detective), Joyce Barhour (Renée), Matthew Boulton (the Superintendent) and S. J. Barmington, William Dewhurst, Peter Bull, Torin Thatcher, Austin Trevor. Clare Greet, Sam Wilkinson, Sara Allgood, Martita Hunt, Pamela Bevan.
1937
YOUNG AND INNOCENT (U.S.A.: A Girl Was Young)
Production: Gainsborough, Gaumont British, 1937. Producer: Edward Black. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Charles Bennett and Alma Reville, from the novel by Josephine ley “A Shilling for Candles.” Director of Photography: Bernard Knowles. Sets: Alfred Junge. Music: Louis Levy. Editing: Charles Frend. Studios: Lime Grove and Pinewood. Distributors: G.F.D., 1937, 80 minutes; U.S.A., G.B. Prod., 1938. Principal Actors: Derrick de Marney (Robert Tisdall), Nova Pilbeam (Erica), Percy Marmont (Colonel Burgoyne), Edward Rigby (old Will), Mary Clare (Erica’s aunt), John Longden (Kent), George Curzon (Guy), Basil Radford (Uncle Basil), and Pamela Carme, George Merritt, J. II. Roberts, Jerry Verno, H. F. Maltby, John Miller, Torin Thatcher, Peggy Simpson, Anna Konstam, Beatrice Varley, William Fazan, Frank Atkinson, Fred O’Donovan, Albert Chevalier, Richard George, Jack Vyvian, Clive Baxter, Pamela Bevan, Humberston Wright, Gerry Fitzgerald, Syd Crossley.
1938
THE LADY VANISHES
Production: Gainsborough Pictures, 1938, G.B. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Producer: Edward Black. Scenario: Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, from the novel by Ethel Lina White “The Wheel Spins.” Adaptation: Alma Reville. Director of Photography: Jack Cox. Sets: Alec Vetchinsky, Maurice Cater and Albert Jullion. Music: Louis Levy. Editing: Alfred Roome and R. E. Dearing. Studio: Lime Grove. Sound Engineer: Sidney Wiles. Distributors: G.B., 97 minutes, 8,650 feet; U.S.A., G.B. Productions, 1938. Principal Actors: Margaret Lockwood (Iris Henderson), Michael Redgrave (Gilbert), Paul Lukas (Dr. Hart/.), Dame May Whitty (Miss Froy), Googie Withers (Blanche), Cecil Parker (Mr. Tod-hunter), Linden Travers (Mrs. Todhunter), Lary Clare (the Baroness), Naunton Wayne (Caldicott), Basil Radford (Charters) and Emil Boreo, Zelma Vas Dias, Philippe Leaver, Sally Stewart, Catherine Lacey, Josephine Wilson, Charles Oliver, Kathleen Tremaine.
1939
JAMAICA INN
Production: Mayflowers-Productions, 1939, G.B. Producers: Erich Pommer and Charles Laughton. Production Manager: Hugh Perceval. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison, from the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Dialogues: Sidney Gilliat and J. B. Priestley. Adaptation: Alma Reville. Directors of Photography: Harry Stradling and Bernard Knowles. Special Effects: Harry Watt. Sets: Tom N. Moraham. Costumes: Molly McArthur. Music: Eric Fenby, directed by Frederic Lewis. Editing: Robert Hamer. Sound Engineer: Jack Rogerson. Distributors: Associated British, 1939, 98 minutes; Paramount, 1939. Principal Actors: Charles Laughton (Sir H
umphrey Pengaltan), Horace Hodges (Chadwick, his butler), Hay Petrie (his groom), Frederick Piper (his broker), Leslie Banks (Joss Merlyn), Marie Ney (Patience, his wife), Maureen O’Hara (Mary, his niece), and Herbert Lomas, Clare Greet, William Delvin, Jeanne de Casalis, A. Bromley Davenport, Mabel Terry Lewis, George Curzon, Basil Radford, Emlyn Williams, Wylie Watson, Morland Graham, Edwin Greenwood, Stephen Haggard, Robert Newton, Mervyn Johns.
“Jamaica Inn” was Alfred Hitchcock’s last English film. David O. Selznick asked him to come to the United States. Hitchcock left in 1939, but he was to return to England to make certain films.
1940
REBECCA
Production: David O. Selznick, U.S.A., 1940. Producer: David O. Selznick. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison from the novel by Daphne du Maurier. Adaptation: Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan. Director of Photography: George Barnes. Sets: Lyle Wheeler. Music: Franz Waxman. Editing: Hal C. Kern. Studio: Selznick International. Distributor: United Artists, 1940, 130 minutes. Principal Actors: Laurence Olivier (Maxim de Winter), Joan Fontaine (Mrs. de Winter), George Sanders (Jack Favell), Judith Anderson (Mrs. Danvers), Nigel Bruce (Major Giles Lacey), C. Aubrey-Smith (Colonel Julyan) and Reginald Denny, Gladys Cooper, Philip Winter, Edward Fielding, Florence Bates, Leo G. Carroll, Forrester Harvey, Lumsden Hare, Leonard Carey, Edith Sharpe, Melville Cooper.
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
Production: Walter Wanger, United Artists, 1940. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison. Dialogues: James Hilton and Robert Benchley. Director of Photography: Rudolph Mate. Special Effects: Lee Zavitz. Sets: William Cameron Menzies and Alexander Golitzen. Music: Alfred Newman. Editing: Otto Lovering and Dorothy Spencer. Assistant Director: Edmond Bernoudy. Studio: United Artists, at Hollywood. Distributor: United Artists, 1940, 120 minutes. Principal Actors: Joel McCrea (Jonny Jones, reporter), Laraine Day (Carol Fisher), Herbert Marshall (Stephen Fisher, her father), George Sanders (Herbert Folliott, reporter), Albert Bassermann (Van Mecr), Robert Benchley (Stebbins), Eduardo Ciannelli (Krug), Edmund Gwenn (Rowley), Harry Davenport (Mr. Powers), and Martin Koslcck, Eddie Conrad, Gertrude W. Hoffman, Jane’ Novak, Ken Christy, Crawford Kent, Joan Brodel-Leslie, Louis Borell.