When asked by critics as to an overarching theme for the film Hitchcock responded: " Love and good order is no defense against evil ".

As the program's theme music, Charles Gounod's " Funeral March for a Marionette ", plays, Hitchcock appears in silhouette from the right edge of the screen, and then walks to center screen to eclipse the caricature.

" ( The theme music for the show was suggested by Hitchcock ’ s long-time musical collaborator, Bernard Herrmann.

The caricature and the use of Gounod's " Funeral March of a Marionette " as theme music have become indelibly associated with Hitchcock in popular culture.

As with Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train is one of many Hitchcock films to explore the doppelgänger theme.

The theme of doubles is " the key element in the film's structure ," and Hitchcock starts right off in his title sequence making this point: there are two taxicabs, two redcaps, two pairs of feet, two sets of train rails that cross twice.

* The main theme to the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest, composed by Bernard Herrmann, is itself a tarantella.

* " Funeral March for a Marionette " from " Suite Burlesque " by Charles Gounod ; this later became known to contemporary audiences as the theme music used for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series.

His presence is signaled by a trombone playing the theme of his TV series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

The game was also notable for using Funeral March of a Marionette, the well-known theme song from Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Much of the plot and many of the technical aspects of the episode, as well as the title, are direct parodies of the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock movie North by Northwest ; in addition, the episode makes use of Bernard Herrmann's theme music from that film.

It became popular as a concert piece, and in the 1950s, its opening phrases became well known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct Deneuve in a screen adaptation of the spy novel The Short Night, but by the time the project was ready to go into production, Hitchcock was unable to direct due to his poor health, and plans for the film were scrapped.

Eight games into the regular season and with a record of 1 – 6 – 1, General Manager Bobby Clarke resigned and head coach Ken Hitchcock was fired.

Alfred Hitchcock appears about 15 minutes into the film, on the train to Santa Rosa, playing bridge with a man and a woman ( Dr and Mrs. Harry ).

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

The city of " Dowagiac " is also mentioned in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film, " North by Northwest " at 1: 04: 15 into the film as a destination read by the overhead announcer in the train station.

Other landowners were Thomas Hitchcock and his family, Harry Payne Whitney and his wife the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, founder of New York's Whitney Museum, at Apple Green ( formerly a Mott house ), Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose estate is now subdivided into the Old Westbury Country Club and New York Institute of Technology.

Most of the village is located in Hitchcock County ; only a small portion extends into Hayes County.

In many of the key scenes Hitchcock let Herrmann's score take center stage, a score whose melodies, echoing the " Liebestod " from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, dramatically convey the main character's obsessive love for the woman he tries to shape into a long-dead, past love.

( Hitchcock has a small joke with her first appearance on his show-after saying good night and exiting the screen, he sticks his head back into the picture and remarks: " I thought the little leading lady was rather good, didn't you?

Two partners, Benjamin W. Hitchcock and Charles C. Denton, first began carving farmland into building lots.

Hitchcock liberally adapted Joseph Conrad's novel, transforming the highly political Tsarist-era agents provocateurs into foreign agents without any obvious political leanings.

At 5: 15 minutes into the episode, Hitchcock appears on the cover of a magazine being read by Mr. Renshaw ( Philip Bourneuf ).

'" Whether they were thinking in Selznick's box office terms or in more artistic ones, Dozier and Hitchcock agreed, and Rains's performance transforms Sebastian into a classic Hitchcock villain: sympathetic, nuanced, in some ways as admirable as the protagonist.

At 1: 04: 43 ( 1: 01: 50 on European DVDs and 64: 28 of the edited cut ) into the film, Hitchcock is seen drinking a glass of champagne at the champagne table as Grant and Bergman approach to get one.

" Hitchcock continued his conversation a few weeks later, this time dining at Chasen's with William Dozier, an RKO studio executive, and pitching it as " the story of a woman sold for political purposes into sexual enslavement.

Hitchcock delivered his and Hecht's screenplay to Selznick in late March, but the producer was getting drawn deeper into the roiling problems of his western epic Duel in the Sun.

Strangers on a Train marked something of a renaissance for Hitchcock after several years of low enthusiasm for his late-1940s output, and he threw himself into the micromanagement of some of its production.

' If the man had raised his head even slightly ", Hitchcock said, " it would have gone from being a suspense film into a horror film.

Hitchcock, photographed many times over the years strangling various actresses and other women — some one-handed, others two — found himself in front of a camera with his fingers around the neck of a bust of daughter Patricia ; the photo found its way into newspapers nationwide.

Hitchcock continues the interplay of light and dark throughout the film: Guy's bright, light tennis attire, versus " the gothic gloominess of Arlington mansion "; the crosscutting between his game in the sunshine at Forest Hills while Bruno's arm stretches into the dark and debris of the storm drain trying to fish out the cigarette lighter ; even a single image where " Walker is photographed in one visually stunning shot as a malignant stain on the purity of the white-marble Jefferson Memorial, as a blot on the order of things.

In Raymond Chandler's second draft script — which Hitchcock ceremoniously dropped into the wastebasket while daintily holding his nose — the final shot is Guy Haines, institutionalized, bound in a straitjacket.

Conversely, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times, criticized the film: " Mr. Hitchcock again is tossing a crazy murder story in the air and trying to con us into thinking that it will stand up without support.

Truffaut and his colleagues argued that Hitchcock had a style as distinct as that of Flaubert or Van Gogh: the virtuoso editing, the lyrical camera movements, the droll humour.

When Hitchcock insisted on receiving his contractual $ 1000 / day fee, Selznick took over post-production himself, supervising the editing and the scoring of the film.

Sadie also oversaw a major expansion of the Grove franchise, editing the one-volume Grove Concise Dictionary of Music ( 1988 ), and several spinoff dictionaries, such as the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments ( three volumes, 1984 ), the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, ( with H. Wiley Hitchcock, four volumes, 1986 ), and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera ( four volumes, 1992 ).

General Ethan Allen Hitchcock between 1851 and 1861

Spellbound caused major contention between Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick.

As a result, the county boundary for the proposed Hitchcock County – with Hugo as county seat – was established along the line of the existing boundary between Choctaw and Pushmataha counties.

Hitchcock was created as a station of the railroad between Galveston and Houston in 1873 and around the turn of the 20th century became a vegetable shipping center.

Hitchcock continued to perfect his recognizable brand of suspense-thriller, directing Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 ), the haunting Oscar-winning Rebecca ( 1940 ), which is about the unusual romance between a young woman ( Joan Fontaine ) and an emotionally-distant rich widower ( Laurence Olivier ) – overshadowed by a vindictive housekeeper ( Judith Anderson ), Suspicion ( 1941 ) about a woman in peril from her own husband ( Cary Grant ), Saboteur ( 1942 ) and Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite and based upon the actual case of a 1920s serial killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer.

In the original ending, there was a duel between André and Jacques in a French football stadium, shot by associate producer Herbert Coleman when Hitchcock had to return to the U. S. for a family emergency.

Its first glimmer occurred some two years previously, in August 1944, over lunch between Hitchcock and Selznick's story editor, Margaret McDonell.

There was one point of agreement between Chandler and Hitchcock, although it would come only much later, near the release of the film: they both acknowledged that since virtually none of Chandler's work remained in the final script, his name should be removed from the credits.

* BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play broadcast on 29 September 2011 was Strangers on a Film by Stephen Wyatt, which gives an imagined account of a series of meetings between Hitchcock ( Clive Swift ) and Raymond Chandler ( Patrick Stewart ) as they unsuccessfully attempt to create the screenplay for Strangers on a Train.

The result, described by Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto, is " the first time Hitchcock has revealed his psychological attraction to the association between sex and murder, between ecstasy and death.

Part of the original focus of seaQuest DSV also centered around the interpersonal relationships of the crew, such as Captain Bridger's, Lucas Wolenczak's, and Dr. Westphalen's loss of immediate family and their shared interest in science, as well as each other, and the " love-hate relationship " between Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg and Lieutenant Commander Katherine Hitchcock, recently divorced, now forced to serve together on the same ship.

During the 2001 – 02 season, the Stars began to play poorly and there was a falling out between then-Stars coach, Ken Hitchcock and GM Bob Gainey.

Midway through the following season, after getting off to a mediocre 23 – 21 – 6 start and in the midst of strife between the players and management, Hitchcock was fired as head coach.

Still, between 1931 and 1936, Balcon produced a number of classics, including a string of Hitchcock successes ( like The 39 Steps ) and Man of Aran, known as ' Balcon's folly ' for going well overbudget.

In a review published January 6, 1963 in The New York Times by Bosley Crowther, the film was criticised for its " grisly touches " and " gruesome violence ", despite receiving praise for its screenplay with regards to its " sudden twists, shocking gags, eccentric arrangements and occasionally bright and brittle lines " as well as Donen's direction, said to be halfway between a 1930s screwball comedy and North by Northwest by Alfred Hitchcock.

The working relationship between Hitchcock and Newman was also said to be problematic.

" Furthermore, as Hitchcock discovered, the expected onscreen chemistry between Newman and Andrews failed to materialize.

Val Lewton, Selznick's story editor, eventually passed on the script, so Selznick forced Hitchcock to offer it to other studios, " causing ill feelings between the producer and his director since it not only showed a lack of belief in Hitchcock's abilities, but also because the terms of Hitchcock's contract would net Selznick a three-hundred percent profit on the sale.

The story focused on a love triangle between two men and a woman, and is the only film in his career for which Hitchcock took or was given a full writing credit.

Trow " swirls " between pop and mainstream cultural icons, such as Doris Day, Alfred Hitchcock, Elvis Presley, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.