This practice is similar in some respects to hidden signature motifs such as Diego Rivera including himself in his murals, Alfred Hitchcock's legendary cameo appearances, the appearances of Fritz in the works of Chris van Allsburg, and various " Hidden Mickeys " that can be found throughout the various Disney Parks.

* Rope was an independent production from Alfred Hitchcock's Transatlantic Pictures and released through WB, though its copyright was renewed by United Artists Television.

At 15 he began working as a camera assistant, clapper boy and production runner for British International Pictures, including Hitchcock's The Skin Game ( 1931 ).

It was also a first for producer Joan Harrison, Universal Pictures ' first female executive, who was Alfred Hitchcock's former screenwriter.

The film has been released on home video by Universal Pictures, which acquired the distribution rights to all but one of Hitchcock's Paramount films, in both VHS and DVD formats.

" " This was good stuff for press agents paid to stir up thrills and it has been repeated in other books to bolster the idea of Hitchcock's sadism ," but " we were up there two or three minutes at the outside .... My father wasn't ever sadistic.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

Opinion is divided on the noir status of several of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers from the era ; at least four qualify by consensus: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Notorious ( 1946 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and The Wrong Man ( 1956 ).

British born director Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ), was the first " slasher " movie, while in the same director's The Birds ( 1963 ) menace stems from nature gone mad.

* Following Hitchcock's death, Universal, which had previously purchased the rights to Psycho ( 1960 ), eventually acquired the distribution rights to the four other films ( along with a former WB feature, Rope ) in 1983 from the Hitchcock estate ( which still holds all other ancillary rights to these films — the estate is overseen by his daughter, Patricia );

But his first all-out noir was Phantom Lady ( 1944 ), for staff producer Joan Harrison, Universal's first female executive and Alfred Hitchcock's former secretary and script assistant.

Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".

Some, however, dealt with professional spies as in Hitchcock's Secret Agent ( 1936 ), based on W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden stories.

Other films in which Novello starred included Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger ( 1926 ), where he played the sinister title character, and Downhill ( 1927 ).

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter ( 1961 ), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ( as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat ), Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ), Pocketful Of Miracles ( 1961 ) and, in a cameo, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

Other suggested meanings of " contrition " ( Hebrew root m-r-d ), " bitter " ( Hebrew root m-r ) or " bruising " ( Hebrew root r-d-d ) are listed in Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary of the late 19th century.

Other popular films he starred during these decade were Falling Down, The American President, The Ghost and the Darkness, The Game ( directed by David Fincher ), and a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic – Dial M for Murder – titled A Perfect Murder.

One of Hitchcock's characteristic innocent-person-pursued-by-the-police evasions ensues, as Dr. Petersen and the impostor ( who now calls himself ' John Brown ') travel by train to Rochester, to meet Dr. Brulov ( Michael Chekhov ), who had been Dr. Petersen's teacher and mentor.

Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's horror film, The Birds ( 1963 ), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game ( 1977, playing in the two-hander play opposite Hume Cronyn ).

His most successful films included The Ghost Goes West ( 1935 ), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), The Citadel ( 1938 ), for which he received his first Best Actor Oscar nomination, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ).

Other screen credits include Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn ( with Charles Laughton ), Gabriel Pascal's film version of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara ( with Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison ), José Ferrer's I Accuse!

Each of these films contains experiments in narrative and intertextuality, reflecting De Palma's stated intention to become the " American Godard " while integrating several of the themes which permeated Hitchcock's work.

Dressed to Kill was a note-for-note homage to Hitchcock's Psycho, including such moments as the surprise death of the lead actress and the exposition scene by the psychiatrist at the end.

A sequence in the middle of the film takes place in San Francisco, and heavily references Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

She starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) with James Stewart.

During the filming of the film, Day became concerned about Hitchcock's lack of direction.

Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, Morris visited Plainfield, Wisconsin in 1975.

It incorporated elements from Hitchcock's Psycho, and it impressed Corman enough to give him the go-ahead.

From 1959 until 1979, Truffaut followed Léaud's character Antoine Doinel, who falls in love with Christine Darbon ( Claude Jade from Hitchcock's Topaz ) in Stolen Kisses, marries her in Bed & Board and separates from her in the last post-New Wave movie Love on the Run.

Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail ( 1929 ) is often regarded as the first British sound feature.

Hitchcock primarily made thrillers, which, according to the Cahiers du cinema crowd, were popular with the public but were dismissed by the critics and the award ceremonies, although Hitchcock's Rebecca won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 1940 Academy Awards.

The Bates Motel is an important part of Psycho, a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

Different methods of calculation exist, including Chaldean, Pythagorean, Hebraic, Helyn Hitchcock's method, Phonetic, Japanese, Arabic and Indian.

* Psycho, a Paramount release, was produced independently by Alfred Hitchcock's Shamley Productions.

[...] There's one shot in particular, where Cruz enters a room in a greenish glow, which is right out of Hitchcock's picture.

For example, Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps features the gimmick of a young couple who find themselves handcuffed together and who eventually, almost in spite of themselves, fall in love with one another, and Woody Van Dyke's 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man portrays a witty, urbane couple who trade barbs as they solve mysteries together.

Tracking shots are often confused with the long take – such as the 10-minute takes in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope ( 1948 ) – or sequence shots.

Chris Carter's use of continuous takes in " Triangle " was modeled on Hitchcock's Rope.

It is from Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which Day co-stars with James Stewart.

After a series of less successful roles, including The Lady Vanishes, the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film of the same name, she dropped out of show business from 1978 to 1982.