The films of
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
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Under Capricorn (1949) Alfred Hitchcock |
Stage Fright (1950) Alfred Hitchcock |
Strangers on a Train (1951) Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Under Capricorn ought to be regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s great achievements - a compelling, masterfully composed tale of romantic intrigue... [More...] | Coming after the commercial failure of the huge experimental gamble Under Capricorn (1949), Stage Fright looks like a dramatic throwback to a much earlier phase of Alfred Hitchcock’s career... [More...] | Strangers on a Train is the first of the truly great suspense thrillers from Alfred Hitchcock, the first film in which all of the elements of what we now know as the classic American Hitchcock movie fit perfectly into place... [More...] |
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I Confess (1953) Alfred Hitchcock |
Dial M for Murder (1954) Alfred Hitchcock |
Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock |
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| It’s a sad fact that Alfred Hitchcock’s least commercially successful films are technically and artistically among his best. I Confess is one of the director’s least known films but it is unquestionably... [More...] | Alfred Hitchcock’s faithful screen adaptation of Frederick Knott’s hugely successful stage play Dial M for Murder is one of the director’s most confined works... [More...] | Along with Vertigo and Psycho, Rear Window represents the pinnacle of Alfred Hitchcock's career. Meticulously constructed, daringly original and yet highly entertaining... [More...] |
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The Trouble with Harry (1955) Alfred Hitchcock |
To Catch a Thief (1955) Alfred Hitchcock |
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Perhaps the most atypical of Alfred Hitchcock’s films is this quirky black comedy, in which the director indulges his mischievous sense of fun, apparently in full cognisance of the fact that he may well be the only... [More...] | Whilst it may not be the most highly regarded of Hitchcock’s films, To Catch a Thief is, thanks to its abundance of wit and glamour, easily one of the director’s most popular and entertaining films... [More...] | When the occasion arose in 1956 for Alfred Hitchcock to remake one of his earlier British films, the one he quickly settled on was his 1934 suspense thriller... [More...] |
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The Wrong Man (1956) Alfred Hitchcock |
Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock |
North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Whilst it may embrace many familiar Hitchcockian themes, such as mistaken identity, mental derangement and transference of guilt, The Wrong Man is markedly different from Alfred Hitchcock’s other films... [More...] | What else is there to say about Vertigo? Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, a film that demands multiple viewings, a work of cinematic art that gives us the most haunting and desperate portrayal of romantic love..... [More...] | North by Northwest is regarded by many as the very quintessence of a Hitchcock film – a delirious concoction of mystery, suspense, action and romance... [More...] |
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Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock |
The Birds (1963) Alfred Hitchcock |
Marnie (1964) Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Alfred Hitchcock’s most famous film, and certainly one of his biggest successes, Psycho is the film that redefined the horror genre in the early 1960s... [More...] | Buoyed by the immense success of Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock chose to stick with the horror genre for his next film, The Birds, which was to provide one of cinema’s most chilling apocalyptic visions of the future... [More...] | Of all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, the one which has probably undergone the greatest reappraisal since its initial release is Marnie. When it was first released... [More...] |
