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Hitchcock and planned
Alfred Hitchcock planned to base a Paramount movie on the book, but the project was never realized.
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.
After 1953's I Confess, Hitchcock planned to film The Bramble Bush, based on the 1948 novel by David Duncan, as a Transatlantic Pictures production with partner Sidney Bernstein.
According to architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock, Riverton was the first totally planned residential subdivision in America.
Herrmann, who had a full schedule of films planned for 1976, including DePalma ’ s Carrie, The Seven Per Cent Solution and Larry Cohen ’ s God Told Me To, was reportedly happy to be in a position to ignore Hitchcock ’ s reunion offer.
Hitchcock had planned on using Quebec-area churches at no cost.
Alfred Hitchcock planned to film the book, but lost support from South African authorities and gave up the idea.
Hitchcock was impressed by Lauter and asked him to play a major role in the romantic espionage thriller he planned as his next film ; the director's failing health and eventual death in 1980 meant that The Short Night never went into production.

Hitchcock and film
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.
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 ).
Young and Innocent ( U. S. title: The Girl Was Young ) is a 1937 British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney and John Longden.
* Mary ( 1931 film ), a 1931 Alfred Hitchcock film
* However, one Hitchcock film, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), is still under Paramount's ownership, since Paramount is the copyright owner of the film.
* The Ring, a 1927 film by Alfred Hitchcock
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 ).
* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) Alfred Hitchcock film about a family trying to save their child and a politician from an organization of assassins being hunted by MI6.
* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) remake of the 1934 Hitchcock film by Hitchcock himself starring James Stewart and Doris Day.
* Torn Curtain ( 1966 ), Hitchcock film starring Paul Newman.
* Topaz ( 1969 ), Hitchcock film starring John Forsythe.
After the back-to-back filming of Rear Window, Toko-Ri, Country Girl and Green Fire, Kelly flew to France, along with department store heir Bernard " Barney " Strauss, to begin work on her third and last film for Alfred Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief.
* Rebecca ( 1940 film ), a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the du Maurier novel
* Secret Agent ( 1936 film ), British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The dramatic conflict is heightened by film noir-inspired lighting and smoke, a dissonant string orchestra score that is reminiscent of movie scores for horror films ( including Bernard Hermann ’ s scores for Alfred Hitchcock films ), and the house itself, which acts as a character in the story, apparently reacting to the family ’ s crisis.
The mission and its grounds were featured prominently in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo.
The director and producer Alfred Hitchcock popularized both the term " MacGuffin " and the technique, with his 1935 film The 39 Steps, an early example of the concept.

Hitchcock and change
Hitchcock's biographer, Patrick McGilligan, stated that Hitchcock was worried about becoming old fashioned and felt that Herrmann's music had to change with the times as well.
" Hitchcock unrelentingly insisted that Herrmann change the score, violating Herrmann's general claim for creative control that he had always been maintained in their previous films.
Although their music had some commercial success, Russell claimed, on a 1995 DVD, that he and Hitchcock were so poor that they were reduced to checking the backs of hotel sofas for change so that they could buy bread to make toast.
However, it is not a true evolutionary tree of life, because Hitchcock saw a Deity as the agent of change.
When Tabori refused to change the script, Hitchcock brought in William Archibald to rewrite it.

Hitchcock and after
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.
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.
John Russell Taylor's official biography of Hitchcock, Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock ( 1978 ), suggests that the story originated after a spell of writer's block during the scripting of another movie project:
The London edition of Time Out magazine, reviewing the film nearly a half-century after its initial release, commented: Fifty years on, you could say that Hitchcock ’ s sleek, wry, paranoid thriller caught the zeitgeist perfectly: Cold War shadiness, secret agents of power, urbane modernism, the ant-like bustle of city life, and a hint of dread behind the sharp suits of affluence.
The television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiered in the United States the year after Dial M for Murder was released.
It was named after the US Senator Phineas Warren Hitchcock.
* North by Northwest ( 1959 ) by Alfred Hitchcock: Townsend ’ s home, where Roger Thornhill ( Cary Grant ) is taken after being kidnapped
The settlement's economy crashed in the 1930s after insect plagues in the surrounding areas, and the area stayed impoverished until the establishment of the Camp Wallace anti-aircraft training base and the Hitchcock Naval Air Station at the beginning of World War II.
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.
Most famously, after over a decade of composing for all of Hitchcock ’ s films, Hitchcock requested a more “ pop ” score from Herrmann.
Although admirers would argue that Powell ought to rank alongside fellow British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean, his career suffered a severe reversal after the release of the controversial psychological thriller film Peeping Tom, made in 1960 as a solo effort.
A crater on the Moon is jointly named after him, Walter Sydney Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.
He made his big-screen debut in Space Camp ( 1986 ), playing the role of Max, after starring in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode " A Very Happy Ending " the same year.
2005 saw the TV broadcast of Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock ?, in which the director paid homage to Alfred Hitchcock after decades of being compared to him by critics.
In the film, Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ) a comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond visit the fair after a dinner date and find themselves stuck high in the air on the fair's popular parachute ride when it malfunctions.
Hitchcock appears again after the title sequence, and drolly introduces the story from a mostly empty studio or from the set of the current episode ; his monologues were written especially for him by James B. Allardice.
Indeed, Hitchcock later claimed he was followed by the FBI for several months after he and Hecht discussed uranium with Robert Millikan at Caltech in mid-1945.
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.
While having originally considered posing as a body floating past the lifeboat – which he later considered for his cameo in Frenzy – after his success with weight loss, Hitchcock decided to pose for " before " and " after " photos for an advertisement for a fictional weight-loss drug, " Reduco ", shown in a newspaper which was in the boat.

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