His artistry in directing and use of cinematography and suspense in several of his films has often been compared to the work of Alfred Hitchcock.

Brooks ' style was generally slapstick and zany in nature, often parodying film styles and genres, including Universal horror films ( Young Frankenstein ), westerns ( Blazing Saddles ) and Hitchcock films ( High Anxiety ).

" But Chandler was a notoriously difficult collaborator and the two men couldn't have had more different meeting styles: Hitchcock enjoyed long, rambling off-topic meetings where often the film wouldn't even be mentioned for hours, while Chandler was strictly business and wanted to get out and get writing.

Hitchcock made personal appearances in most of them, and was often accompanied by his daughter.

Hitchcock's Blackmail ( 1929 ), is often regarded as the first British sound feature, while The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) features a signature Hitchcock cameo.

Alfred Hitchcock, often regarded the greatest British filmmaker of all time.

Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman, Louis Levy, and Dimitri Tiomkin are the only composers who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock.

Ford's assertive style made her a favorite of TV casting directors, and she was often featured in episodes of The Kraft Television Theater, Appointment with Adventure, State Trooper, Bat Masterson, The Phil Silvers Show, Have Gun Will Travel, Rawhide, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Tombstone Territory ( episode " Silver Killers "), Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Target: The Corruptors !, Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone.

His mother often took him to see films at the cinema as a child, particularly those of Alfred Hitchcock, and he became enamored with the movies often citing Sam Peckinpah ’ s The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ) as one of his favourites.

* Christopher Hitchcock: The reluctant clown of the group, Christopher often makes jokes specifically targeted towards the other members of the group ( April ( sexism ), Jalil ( racism ), and David ( antisemitism ); he does this to keep the others at a distance, so they won't get to know him.

The 1999 release Jewels for Sophia, also on Warner, featured cameos from Southern California-based musicians Jon Brion and Grant-Lee Phillips, both of whom often shared the stage with Hitchcock when he played Los Angeles nightclub Largo.

Hitchcock, who often liked to specify the locales of his films by using on-screen titles or by using recognizable landmarks, deliberately left the story's location unspecific, using sites in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Williams also stated that Hitchcock was at the scoring sessions most of the time and would often give him suggestions.

His planning was often elaborate: Henry-Russell Hitchcock called his mansion at Elvetham Park in Hampshire " so complex in its composition and so varied in its detailing that it quite defies description ".

Hitchcock told him they got along great together and they would just write something else.

For the central idea, Hitchcock remembered something an American journalist had told him about spies creating a fake agent as a decoy.

( Skelton also told another version of this story, with Raymond Hitchcock as the actor.

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.

" Hitchcock told me that this scene was the most personally frightening moment for him in any of his films ", writes biographer Charlotte Chandler.

Of greater interest to Mr. Warner was the box office take, and the " receipts soon told the true story: Strangers on a Train was a success, and Hitchcock was pronounced at the top of his form as master of the dark, melodramatic suspense thriller.

In his later years, Alfred Hitchcock occasionally told this story as a black joke during his appearances on American talk shows, most notably during an appearance on The Tomorrow Show

* In Truffaut / Hitchcock, Hitchcock told François Truffaut that Under Capricorn was such a failure that Bankers Trust Company, which had financed the film, repossessed the film, which then was unavailable until the first US network television screening in 1968.

Hitchcock told François Truffaut that this film was the lowest ebb of his career.

Hitchcock told Truffaut " The film had no story to tell ".

The story " Maybe You Will Remember " told in Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 and the episode " Into Thin Air " of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents were based on the same story.

* Alfred Hitchcock Presents Storys that my mother never told me ( 1963 )

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.

Hitchcock had the idea of the hero being stranded in the middle of nowhere, but suggested the villains try to kill him with a tornado.

Hitchcock sat on the idea, waiting for the right screenwriter to develop it.

The movie title is reported to have been the influence for the name of the popular annual live music festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, started in 1987, with the name idea coming from Louis Black, editor and co-founder of the local alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle as a play on the Hitchcock movie title.

It was Hitchcock, not Tiomkin, whose idea brought the four evocative numbers — " The Band Played On ", " Carolina in the Morning ", " Oh, You Beautiful Doll ", and " Baby Face " — to the soundtrack:

It was Hitchcock who came up with the idea for the film.

The idea of a " motiveless " perfect murder is explored in the novel Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, famously adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock.

Hitchcock liked the idea, but he and Cohen were unable to figure out a sufficient plot reason for keeping the film confined to a booth, and hence they never made the idea into a film.

Alfred Hitchcock planned to film the book, but lost support from South African authorities and gave up the idea.

Hitchcock was under contract to David O. Selznick, so he first pitched the idea for the film to him ; Selznick gave the okay for a script to be written, assigning John Houseman to keep an eye on its progress and direction.

Hitchcock returned to England from a trip to the Caribbean with a new idea for a film.

Alfred Hitchcock first considered an American remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much in 1941, but only brought back the idea in 1956, to make a film that fulfill a contractual demand from Paramount Pictures.

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.

Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some French critics in the influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.

* 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 );

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.

By 1932, the Great Depression had forced studios to cut back on needless expense and it was not until 1953 that wider aspect ratios were again used in an attempt to stop the fall in attendance due, partially, to the emergence of television in the U. S. However, a few producers and directors, among them Alfred Hitchcock, have been reluctant to use the anamorphic widescreen size featured in such formats as Cinemascope.

Just as he had done earlier, Hitchcock provided the camera with a slow-sequenced silhouette of Kelly, along with a close-up of the two stars kissing and finally lingering closely on her profile.

Alfred Hitchcock had quipped that he was " very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part.

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.

Born William Hitchcock, he and his brother Henry had followed the lead of their father, Walter Henry Hitchcock, in assuming their mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874.

A steeple, added sometime after the mission's original construction and secularization, had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a bell tower using scale models, matte paintings, and trick photography at the Paramount studio in Los Angeles.

Hitchcock had however died of heart disease on 22 August 1932, before the road was completed, though his car was driven behind the governor's in the procession along the road during the opening ceremony.

Selznick had brought Hitchcock over from England, launching the director's American career.

Directed by twenty-nine-year-old Alfred Hitchcock, the movie had its London debut June 21, 1929.

Alfred Hitchcock had agreed to do a film for MGM, and they had chosen an adaptation of the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes.

Composer Bernard Herrmann had recommended that Hitchcock work with his friend Ernest Lehman.

Hitchcock thought for a moment then said he had always wanted to do a chase across Mount Rushmore.

In fact, Hitchcock had been working on the story for nearly nine years prior to meeting Lehman.

Hitchcock had his agent check his contract, learned that he had absolute control over the final cut, and refused.