1958
VERTIGO
Production: Alfred Hitchcock, Paramount, 1958. Associate Producer: Herbert Coleman. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Alec Coppcl and Samuel Taylor, from the novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, “D’entre les morts.” Director of Photography: Robert Burks, A.S.C. Special Effects: John Fulton. Sets: Hal Pereira, Henry Bumstead, Sam Comer and Frank McKelvey. Color: Technicolor. Consultant: Richard Mueller. Music: Bernard Herrmann; conducted by Muir Mathieson. Editing: George Tomasini. Costumes: Edith Head. Assistant Director: Daniel McCauley. Sound Engineers: Harold Lewis and Winston Leverert. Pities: Saul Bass. Special Sequence: Designed, by John Ferren. Studio: Paramount. Location Work: San Francisco. Distribution: Paramount, 1958, 120 minutes. Principal Actors: James Stewart (John “Scottie” Ferguson), Kim Novak (Madeleine Elster and Judy Barton), Barbara Bel Geddes (Midge), Henry Jones (the coroner), Tom Helmore (Gavin Elster), Raymond Bailey (the doctor), and Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick.
1959
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Production: Alfred Hitchcock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959. Associate Producer: Herbert Coleman. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Original Scenario: Ernest Lehman. Director of Photography: Robert Burks, A.S.C. Color: Technicolor. Consultant: Charles K. Hagedon. Special Photographic Effects: A. Arnold Gillespie and Lee Le Blanc. Sets: Robert Boyle, William A. Horning, Merrill Pyle, Henry Grace and Frank McKelvey. Music: Bernard Herrmann. Editing: George Tomasini. Title Design: Saul Bass. Sound Engineer: Frank Milton. Assistant Director: Robert Saunders. Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Location Work: New York (Long Island), Chicago, Rapid City (Mount Rushmore), South Dakota (National Memorial). Distributor: Metro-Cold-wyn-Mayer, 1959, 136 minutes. Principal Actors: Cary Grant (Roger Thornhill), Eva Marie Saint. (Eve Kandall), James Mason (Phillip Vandamm), Jessie Royce Landis (Clara Thornhill), Leo G. Carroll (the Professor), Philip Ober (Lester Townsend), Josephine Hutchinson (“Mrs. Townsend,” the housekeeper), Martin Landau (Leonard), Adam Williams (Valerian), and Carleton Young, Edward C. Piatt, Philip Coolidgc, Dorcen Lang, Edward Binns, Robert Ellcnstcin, Lee Tremayne, Patrick McVey, Ken Lynch, Robert B. Williams, Larry Dobkin, Ned Glass, John Berardino, Malcolm Atterbury.
1960
PSYCHO
Production: Alfred Hitchcock, Paramount, 1960. Unit Manager: Lew Leary. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Joseph Stefano, from the novel by-Robert Bloch. Director of Photography: John L. Russel, A.S.C. Special Photographic Effects: Clarence Champagne. Sets: Joseph Hurley, Robert Claworthy and George Milo. Music: Bernard Herrmann. Sound Engineers: Walden O. Watson and William Russell. Title Design: Saul Bass. Editing: George Tomasini. Assistant Director: Hilton A. Green. Costumes: Helen Colvig. Studio: Paramount. Location Work: Arizona and California. Distributor: Paramount, 1960, 109 minutes. Principal Actors: Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates), Vera Miles (Lila Crane, Marion’s sister), John Gavin (Sam Loomis), Martin Balsam (Milton Arbogast, detective), John Mclntire (Chambers, the Sheriff), Simon Oakland (Doctor Richmond), Janet Leigh (Marion Crane), Frank Albertson (the millionaire), Patricia Hitchcock (Caroline), and Vaughn Taylor, Lurene Tuttle, John Anderson, Mort Mills.
1963
THE BIRDS
Production: Universal, 1963. Producer: Alfred Hitchcock. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Evan Hunter, from the work by Daphne du Maurier. Director of Photography: Robert Burks, A.S.C. Color: Technicolor. Special Effects: Lawrence A. Hampton. Special Photographic Adviser: Ub Iwerks. Production Director: Norman Deming. Sets: Robert Boyle and George Milo. Sound Consultant: Bernard Herrmann. Composition and Production of Electronic Sound: Remi Gassman and Oskar Sala. Bird Trainer: Ray Berwick. Assistant Director: James H. Brown. Assistant to Hitchcock: Peggy Robertson. Illustrator Alfred Whitlock. Credits: James A. Pollak. Editing: George Tomasini. Studio: Universal. Location Work: Bodega Bay, California, San Francisco. Distributor: Universal, 1963, 120 minutes. Principal Actors: Rod Taylor (Mitch Brenner), Tippi Hedren (Melanie Daniels), Jessica Tandy (Mrs. Brenner), Suzanne Pleshette (Annie Hayworth), Veronica Cartwright (Cathy Brenner), Ethel Griffies (Mrs. Bundy), Charles McGraw (Sebastian Sholes), Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. MacGruder), and Joe Mantell, Malcolm Atterbury, Karl Swenson, Elizabeth Wilson, Lonny Chapman, Doodles Weaver, John Mc-Govern, Richard Deacon, Doreen Lang, Bill Quinn.
1964
MARNIE
Production: Alfred Hitchcock, Universal, 1964. Producer: Albert Whitlock. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Jay Presson Allen, from the novel by Winston Graham. Director of Photography: Robert Burks, A.S.C. Color: Technicolor. Sets: Robert Boyle and George Milo. Music: Bernard Herrmann. Editing: George Tomasini. Assistant Director: James H. Brown. Assistant to Hitchcock: Peggy Robertson. Sound Engineers: Waldon O. Watson, William Green. Distributor: Universal, 1964, 120 minutes. Principal Actors: Tippi Hedren (Marnie Edgar), Sean Connery (Mark Rutland), Diane Baker (Lil Mainwaring), Martin Gabel (Sidney Strutt), Louise Latham (Bernice Edgar, Mamie’s mother), Bob Sweeney (Cousin Bob), Alan Napier (Mr. Rutland), S. John Launer (Sam Ward), Mariette Hartley (Susan Clabon), and Bruce Dern, Henry Beckman, Edith Evanson, Meg Wylie.
1966
TORN CURTAIN
Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Brian Moore. Director of Photography: John E. Warren, A.S.C. Sets: Frank Arrigo. Sound: Waldon O. Watson and William Russell. Music: John Addison. Editing: Bud Hoffman. Assistant Director: Donald Baer. Principal Actors: Paul Newman (Professor Michael Armstrong), Julie Andrews (Sarah Sherman), Lila Kedrova (Countess Kuchinska), Hans-joerg Felmy (Heinrich Gerhard), Tamara Toumanova (Ballerina), Wolfgang Kieling (Hermann Gromck), Gunter Strack (Professor Karl Manfred), Ludwig Donath (Professor Gustav Lindt), David Opatoshu (Mr. Ja-cobi), Gisela Fischer (Dr. Koska), Mort Mills (Farmer), Carolyn Conwell (Farmer’s wife), Arthur Gould-Porter (Freddy), Gloria Gorvin.
1969
TOPAZ
Production: Universal. Producer: Alfred Hitchcock. Associate Producer: Herbert Coleman: Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Samuel Taylor, from the novel by Leon Uris. Director of Photography: Jack Hildyard. Color: Technicolor. Music: Maurice Jarre. Sets: John Austin and Henry Bumstead. Costumes: Edith Head and Pierre Bahnain. Editing: William Ziegler. Sound: Waldon O. Watson and Robert R. Bertrand. Assistant Directors: Douglas Green and James Westman. Assistant to Alfred Hitchcock: Peggy Robertson. French Technical Advisers: J. P. Mathieu and Odette Ferry. Studio: Universal. Location Work: West Germany, Copenhagen, New York, Washington, Paris. Distribution: Universal, 1969, 127 minutes. Principal Actors: Frederick Stafford (André Devereaux), Dany Robin (Nicole Devercaux), John Vernon (Rico Parra), Karin Dor (Juanita de Cordoba), Michel Piccoli (Jacques Granville), Philippe Noiret (Henri Jarré), Claude Jade (Michèle Picard), Michel Subor (François Picard), Roscoe Lee Browne (Philippe Dubois), PerAxel Arosenius (Boris Kusenov), John Forsythe (Michael Nordstrom), Edmond Ryan (McKittreck), Sonja Kolthoff (Mrs. Kusenov), Tina Hedstrom (Tamara Kusenov), John Van Dreelen (Claude Martin), Don Randolph (Luis Uribe), Roberto Contreras (Munoz), Carlos Rivas (Hernandez), Lewis Charles (Mr. Mendoza), Anna Navarro (Mrs. Mendoza), John Roper (Thomas), George Skaff (René d’Arcy), Roger Til (Jean Chabrier), Sandor Szabo (Emile Redon), Lew Brown (an American official).
1972
FRENZY
Production: Universal. Producer: Alfred Hitchcock. Associate Producer: Bill Hill. Production Director: Brian Burgess. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Anthony Shaffer, from the novel by Arthur La Bern, “Goodbye Piccadilly. Farewell Leicester Square.” Director of Photography: Gil Taylor. Color: Technicolor. Special Effects: Albert Whitloek. Music: Ron Goodwin. Sets: Sydney Cain and Robert Laing. Costumes: Dulcie Midwinter. Editing: John Jympson. Sound: Peter Handford and Gordon K. McCallum. Assistant Director: Colin Brewer. Assistant to Alfred Hitchcock: Peggy Robertson. Studio: Pinewood. Location Work: London. Distribution: Universal, 1972, 116 minutes. Principal Actors: Jon Finch (Richard Blaney), Alec McCowen (Inspector Oxford), Barry Foster (Bob Rusk), Barbara Leigh-Hunt (Brenda Blauey), Bernard Cribbins (Forsythe), Anna Massey (Bar
bara “Babs” Milligan), Vivien Merchant (Mrs. Oxford), Billie Whitelaw (Hetty Porter), Elsie Randolph (Gladys, the hotel employee), Rita Webb (Mrs. Rusk), Clive Swift (Johnny Porter), Jean Marsh (Monica Barling, Brenda’s secretary), Madge Ryan (Mrs. Davison), George Tovey (Mr. Salt), John Boxer (Sir George), Noel Johnson and Gerald Sim (two men at the bar), June Ellis (the barmaid), Bunny May (the barman), Robert Keegan (the hospital patient), Jimmy Gardner (the hotel porter), Michael Bates (Sergeant Spearman).
1976
FAMILY PLOT
Production: Universal. Producer: Alfred Hitchcock. Production Director: Ernest Wehmeyer. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Scenario: Ernest Lehman, from the novel by Victor Canning, “The Rainbird Pattern.” Director of Photography: Leonard South. Color: Technicolor. Special Effects: Albert Whitlock. Music: John Williams. Sets: Henry Bumstead and James Payne. Costumes: Edith Head. Editing: Terry Williams. Sound: James Alexander and Robert Hoyt. Assistant Directors: Howard G. Kazanjian and Wayne Earlow. Studio: Universal. Distribution: Universal, 1976, 120 minutes. Principal Actors: Karen Black (Fran), Bruce Dern (George Lumley), Barbara Harris (Blanche Tyler), William Devane (Arthur Adamson), Cathlccn Nesbitt (Julia Rainbird), Ed Lauter (Joseph Maloney), Katherine Helmond (Mrs. Maloney), Warren J. Kemmcrling (Grandison), Edith Atwater (Mrs. Clay), William Prince (the bishop), Nicolas Colasanto (Constantine), Marge Redmond (Vera Hannagan), John Lehne (Andy Bush), Charles Tyner (Wheeler), Alexander Lockwood (the pastor), Martin West (Sanger).
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
AMENGÜAL, BARTHÉLÉMY and Borde, Raymond—Alfred Hitchcock (Premier Plan, Serdoc, Lyon 1960)
BOGDANOVICH, PETER—The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock (The Museum of Modern Art Film Library/ Doubleday & Co. Inc., New York 1962)
Cahiers du Cinéma—No. 39 (Special Issue), Paris, October 1953
Cahiers du Cinéma—No. 62, Paris, August-September 1956
MANZ, HANS-PETER—Alfred Hitchcock (Sanssouci Verlag, Zürich, 1962)
NOBLE, PETER—An Index to the Creative Work of Alfred Hitchcock (Sight and Sound Supplement: “Index Series,” No. 18, London 1949)
PERRY, GEORGE—The Films of Alfred Hitchcock (Studio Vista Ltd., London 1965; E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc., New York 1965)
WOOD, ROBIN—Hitchcock’s Films (A. Zwemmer Ltd., London 1965; A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc., New York 1965)
INDEX OF FILM TITLES
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Airport, 333, 343
Airport 1975, 343
Airport 77, 343
Always Tell Your Wife, 27, 351
Aventure Malgache, 161, 357
Barefoot Contessa, The, 325
Ben Hur, 19, 325
Bicycle Thief, The, 102
Big Deal on Madonna Street, 309
Big Lift, The, 249
Birds, The, 12, 19, 69, 98, 99, 102, 131, 154, 158, 158n, 180n, 201, 205, 222, 253, 254, 263, 266, 268, 285, 286n, 287, 290, 295, 297, 304, 323, 325, 327, 329n, 361
Birth of a Nation, The, 27
Blackguard, The, 30, 122, 352
Blackmail, 61, 63, 64, 82, 158n, 205, 329, 353
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 325
Bon Voyage, 160, 163, 357
Boomerang, 239
Bramble Bush, The, 209
Call of Youth, The, 350
Champagne, 57, 353
Citizen Kane, 295n
Cleopatra, 320, 329n
Destiny, 26
Diabolique, 243
Dial M for Murder, 158n, 209, 212, 226, 272, 333, 346, 359
Downhill, 51, 352
Easy Virtue, 51, 72, 73, 352
Elstree Calling, 69, 353
Family Plot, 12, 327, 339, 341, 342, 343, 363
Farmer’s Wife, The, 31, 55, 57, 353
Fireworks, 19
Foreign Correspondent, 133, 135, 137, 139, 145, 356
Frenzy, 12, 329, 333, 334, 336, 338, 339, 344, 362
Girl Was Young, The (see Young and Innocent)
Glass Wall, The, 252
Gold Rush, The, 327
Gone with the Wind, 129
Grand Illusion, The, 327
Grapes of Wrath, The, 133
Great Day, The, 350
Green for Danger, 121
Harmony Heaven, 353
Hatari, 20
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 91
I Confess, 61, 158n, 195, 199, 200n, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 333, 346, 359
Intolerance, 27
I See a Dark Stranger, 121
Italian Straw Hat, 124
Jamaica Inn, 121, 122, 187, 356
Joan of Arc, 189
Jules and Jim, 11, 206, 315
Juno and the Paycock, 69, 212, 319, 353
King in New York, A, 327
King Kong, 342
King Solomon’s Mines, 248
La Chienne, 325
Lady Vanishes, The, 20, 116, 118, 121, 127, 137, 138, 158n, 356
Last Laugh, The, 31
Lifeboat, 155, 15.9, 227, 357
Limelight, 146
Lodger, The, 39, 43, 44, 47, 49, 52, 63, 64, 123, 142, 158n, 163, 337, 352
Lord Camber’s Ladies, 82, 354
Lovers of Verona, The, 173
M, 91
Magnificent Ambersons, The, 295n
Man Between, The, 249
Man on a Tightrope, 249
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934), 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 121, 193, 227, 308, 355
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956), 86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 107 151, 158n, 227, 228, 254, 323, 325, 328, 336, 345, 360
Man Who Loved Women, The, 342
Manxman, The, 61, 353
Mamie, 158n, 301, 304, 307, 315, 325, 327, 328, 331, 346, 362
Mary (German version of Murder), 354
Miss Julie, 202
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 139, 314, 356
Monsieur Prince (see Whiffles)
Mountain Eagle, The, 39, 352
Müde Tod, Der (see Destiny)
Murder, 73, 74, 75, 77, 158n, 205, 304, 354
Naked Island, 102
Nickelodeon, 342
Night of the Hunter, The, 316
North by Northwest, 11, 19, 102, 107, 139, 145, 150, 158n, 248, 249, 250, 254, 256, 260, 262, 265, 319, 323, 327, 328, 333, 343, 345, 361
Northside 777, 239
Notorious, 11, 116, 151, 158n, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 186, 191, 213, 259, 261, 262, 343, 346, 358
Number Seventeen, 81, 85, 354
Number Thirteen, 29, 351
Old Acquaintance, 102
Paradine Case, The, 11, 158n, 167, 173, 187, 205, 218, 306, 358
Passionate Adventure, The, 30, 352
Place in the Sun, A, 197
Pleasure Garden, The, 31, 39, 352
Princess of New York, The, 350
Prude’s Fall, The, 30, 31, 352
Psycho, 12, 19, 124, 150 153, 158n, 189, 195, 200, 201, 202, 205, 259, 260, 268, 269, 272, 282, 283, 323, 325, 328, 329, 333, 334, 342, 361
Rake’s Progress, The, 121
Rear Window, 11, 20, 73, 111, 158n, 213, 214n, 216, 218, 222, 223, 242, 265, 307, 317, 319, 323, 359
Rebecca, 11, 118, 127, 129, 131, 140, 143, 158n, 183, 186, 187, 216, 246, 306, 343, 356
Rich and Strange, 78, 81, 85, 354
Rififi, 14
Ring, The, 52, 54, 85, 352
Roman Holiday, 84, 320
Rope,
158n, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184, 189, 199, 212, 227, 358
Rules of the Game, The, 327
Sabotage, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 131, 145, 265, 355
Saboteur, 145, 150, 151, 357
Secret Agent, The, 105, 107, 219, 313, 355
Seven Capital Sins, 96n
Shadow of a Doubt, 109, 151, 152n, 153, 155, 158n, 182, 191, 199, 216, 333, 346, 357
Short Night, The, 12, 327, 343
Singin’ in the Rain, 173
Skin Game, The, 77, 354
So Long at the Fair, 121
Sous le Ciel de Paris, 224
Spellbound, 11, 118, 120, 158n, 163, 165, 167, 169, 183, 306, 357
Spy, The, 91, 98n
Stage Fright, 158n, 189, 193, 333, 359
Star Is Born, A, 173
Strangers on a Train, 158n, 191, 193, 194n, 195, 198, 199, 260, 323, 328, 359
Stromboli, 325
Suspicion, 44, 140, 141, 142, 143, 195, 357
Tell Your Children, 350
Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The, 91
That Obscure Object of Desire, 341n
Thirty-nine Steps, The, 47, 94, 98, 99, 138, 145, 150, 158n, 172, 249, 327, 333, 335
Thirty-nine Steps, The (Ralph Thomas remake), 98, 99
Three Live Ghosts, 350
Titanic, The, 343
To Catch a Thief, 13, 107, 158n, 222, 223, 224, 226, 360
Topaz, 12, 330, 331, 332, 339, 341, 362