After viewing Leigh's screen test, Selznick noted that " she doesn't seem right as to sincerity or age or innocence ", a view shared by Hitchcock and Leigh's mentor, George Cukor.

In a 1964 interview on Telescope with host Fletcher Markle, Markle noted, " Mr Hitchcock, most critics have always considered Shadow of a Doubt, which you made in 1943, as your finest film.

Kasey Rogers ( Miriam, credited as Laura Elliott ) noted that she had perfect vision at the time the movie was made, but Hitchcock insisted she wear the character's thick eyeglasses, even in long shots when regular glass lenses would have been undetectable.

Ebert noted in his review that he felt the problem with Zemeckis's desire to direct a Hitchcockian film was to involve the supernatural, which he believes to be something Alfred Hitchcock himself would never have done.

Indeed it prefigures McKim's famous Columbia Library ", Henry-Russell Hitchcock noted in his biography of H. H.

Roger Ebert, noted critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film a glowing four star review, drawing comparisons to the works of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, stating, " Dead Again is Kenneth Branagh once again demonstrating that he has a natural flair for bold theatrical gesture.

Charade has received generally positive reviews from critics, and was additionally noted to contain influences of genres such as whodunit, screwball and spy thriller ; it has also been referred to as " the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.

Hitchcock related this anecdote in a television interview for Richard Schickel's documentary The Men Who Made the Movies and for Dick Cavett's interview.

In François Truffaut's book-length interview, Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ), Hitchcock said that MGM wanted North by Northwest cut by 15 minutes so the film's length would run under two hours.

In his book-length interview Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ) with François Truffaut, Hitchcock said that he wanted to do " something fun, light-hearted, and generally free of the symbolism permeating his other movies.

While Herrmann had brought Hitchcock a copy of his classical work after the break-up, Hitchcock, in fact, gave Herrmann an inscribed copy of his Hitchcock-Truffaut interview book, signed " To Benny with my fondest wishes, Hitch.

In his book-length interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock / Truffaut, Hitchcock told Truffaut that he originally wanted William Holden for the Guy Haines role, but Holden declined.

" In Truffaut's 1967 book-length interview Hitchcock / Truffaut, Hitchcock paraphrased Thompson's criticism as " Dorothy Thompson gave the film three days to get out of town.

In an interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock said that he and his wife Alma Reville wrote the first draft of the script together, before bringing in Scottish playwright James Bridie to do a polishing – but Selznick was dissatisfied with the result, and would view the previous days rushes, do a rewrite, and send the new scenes to the set to be shot.

On April 13, 2011, at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY, Hedren stated in an interview with Turner Classic Movie's Ben Mankiewicz that because she refused Hitchcock ’ s sexual advances, Hitchcock effectively stunted her career.

Nevertheless he admitted in an interview that Alfred Hitchcock and Yasujiro Ozu features analyzed and discussed under the guidance of Shigehiko Hasumi contributed to shape his personal vision of the medium.

In an interview for the New York Times on June 18, 1971, Hitchcock stated that it was his favorite of all his films.

* The Guardian interview with Granger and Patricia Hitchcock O ' Connell

In the book-length interview Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ), Hitchcock said he had hired Anita Björk as the female lead for I Confess, after seeing her in Miss Julie ( 1951 ).

In the Truffaut interview, Hitchcock also mentioned the New York Times reviewer, who wrote that the viewer had to wait almost 100 minutes for the first suspenseful moment.

* In Peter Bogdanovich's interview with Alfred Hitchcock, Bogdanovich mentions that French critics writing for Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s considered Under Capricorn one of Hitchcock's finest films.

Hitchcock would later voice his unhappiness with the film in François Truffaut's book-length interview Hitchcock / Truffaut.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

He is tied with Robert Altman and Alfred Hitchcock for the most Academy Award nominations for best director without a single win.

1929 was a watershed year: William Wellman with Chinatown Nights and The Man I Love, Rouben Mamoulian with Applause, Alfred Hitchcock with Blackmail ( Britain's first sound feature ), were among the directors to bring greater fluidity to talkies and experiment with the expressive use of sound ( Eyman, 1997 ).

The British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean are among the most critically acclaimed of all-time, with other important directors including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Ridley Scott.

Several other new talents emerged during this period, and Alfred Hitchcock would confirm his status as one of the UK's leading young directors with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), before moving to Hollywood.

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.

He reunited with Hitchcock at the end of the decade in Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) as an Australian land-owner with a shady past.

* 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 );

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

Raimi also wears a suit with white shirt and tie on-set in another homage to Hitchcock.

Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song " I Am Australian ", which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.

After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.

Leigh had hoped to co-star with Olivier and made a screen test for Rebecca, which was to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock with Olivier in the leading role.

In 1969, a plaque to Leigh was placed in the Actors Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden ; in 1985, a portrait of her was included in a series of postage stamps, along with Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Chaplin, Peter Sellers and David Niven to commemorate " British Film Year ".

* Secret Agent ( 1936 ) with John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Hitchcock was quick to bring in men closely allied with big business, which further alienated the progressive wing of the party.

It is a significant aspect of British cinema, with leading British directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Carol Reed making notable contributions and many films set in the British Secret Service.

Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularise the spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), Sabotage ( 1937 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

* Notorious ( 1946 ), Spy thriller from Alfred Hitchcock with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.