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Alfred Hitchcock: Directors
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Alfred Hitchcock has been the most well-known director to the general public since the 1940s -- and he remains so in the 21st century, more than 25 years after his death. His name evokes instant expectations on the part of audiences around the world: of a memorable night of movie-watching highlighted by at least two or three great chills (and a few more good ones), some striking black comedy, and an eccentric characterization or two in virtually every one of the director's movies across a half-century -- and usually laced with a comical cameo appearance by the director himself.
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[I]f they snub Scorsese again, he can take comfort in knowing that the great Alfred Hitchcock went 0 for 5 for Best Director nominations, never winning a single competitive Oscar. He finally received the career-honouring Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1967, when he was well past his prime. Maybe that was one instance when Oscar felt he owed somebody.
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Famed director Alfred Hitchcock himself introduced these free-standing stories of suspense and terror. Hitch directed 17 of the installments himself. The show would open with its famous theme song as Hitchcock walked in front of his famous caricature silhouette.
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Blonde Women - Hitchcock had a dramatic preference for blonde women, stating that the audience would be more suspicious of a brunette. Many of these blondes were of the Kim Novak/Grace Kelly variety: perfect and aloof. In Vertigo James Stewart forces a woman to dye her hair blonde. The Lodger, one of Hitchcock's earliest films, features a serial killer who stalks blonde women. Hitchcock said he used blonde actresses in his films, not because of an attraction to them, but because of a tradition that began with Mary Pickford. The director said that blondes were "a symbol of the heroine."
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Synopsis: Seeking a creative challenge after several years' worth of fairly elaborate melodramas, director Alfred Hitchcock stages all of the action in Lifeboat in one tiny boat, adrift in the North Atlantic. The boat holds eight survivors of a Nazi torpedoRead More
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With the film, Strangers on a Train (1951),[70] based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, Hitchcock combined many of the best elements from his preceding British and American films. Two men casually meet and speculate on removing people who are causing them difficulty. One of the men, though, takes this banter entirely seriously. With Farley Granger reprising some elements of his role from Rope, Strangers continued the director's interest in the narrative possibilities of blackmail and murder.
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