In 1954, he starred opposite Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder.

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.

It is a modern remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Dial M for Murder, though the characters ' names are all changed, and over half the plot is completely rewritten and altered.

He is remembered for his role as chief inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder, and as portraying the second " Mr. French " on TV's Family Affair.

The film is the first in Hitchcock's ' limited-setting ' films, the others being Rope ( 1948 ), Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), and Rear Window ( 1954 ).

The film is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) ( remade in 1998 as A Perfect Murder ) and features Deol in a love triangle with Akshaye Khanna and Amisha Patel.

Returning to the United Kingdom in 1953, Allen made his film debut in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ).

It was while there that he appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ), playing C. A. Swann / Captain Lesgate.

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.

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.

His first film role was a brief uncredited one as an Italian wigmaker in the 1938 Pygmalion – subsequent film roles included parts in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate ( both 1956 ), Ice Cold in Alex ( 1958 ), Tarzan's Greatest Adventure ( 1959 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), H. M. S.

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.

* In the October 1963 issue of MAD Magazine, the " For the Birds " parody of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds reveals that their unexplained attacks were orchestrated by Burt Lancaster, as revenge for losing the Oscar: " If you think we terrorized your house ... You should see what we've got lined up for Gregory Peck!

" They also demonstrate Hitchcock's gift for deft visual storytelling: For most of the film, Bruno is the actor, Guy the reactor, and Hitchcock always shows Bruno's feet first, then Guy's.

( For a complete analysis of Hitchcock's hidden and conventional cuts in Rope, see David Bordwell's text " Poetics of Cinema ", 2008 ).

An album of outtakes from the Sophia sessions called A Star For Bram, released on Hitchcock's own label, followed, and his subsequent albums appeared on a variety of independent labels.

Gavin did play OSS 117 the French equivalent of 007, in Pas de Roses pour OSS 117 / No Roses For OSS 117 ( 1968 ) replacing Frederick Stafford who was filming Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz.

For Hitchcock's Spellbound, Salvador Dali designed sharply angled sets inspired by his own dream space.

Of Hitchcock's fifteen major features made between 1925 and 1935, only six were suspense films, the two mentioned above plus ‎ Murder !, Number Seventeen, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The 39 Steps.

They are police detectives in the Murder Brigade of the Amsterdam Municipal Police, and are featured in more than a dozen detective novels and several short stories published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

Mary ( 1931 ) is a UK-German co-production film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the German language version of Hitchcock's Murder!

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

Based on 30 reviews on the website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has received 100 %, with a consensus of " Alfred Hitchcock's earliest classic -- and his own personal favorite -- deals its flesh-crawling thrills as deftly as its finely shaded characters ".

" Blurring the lines puts both Guy and Bruno on a good-evil continuum, and the infinite shades of gray in between become Hitchcock's canvas for telling the story and painting his characters.

Hitchcock's biggest changes were in his two lead characters:

Norman Holland has used Jungian criticism to explore the female characters in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo using Graves's Triple Goddess motif as a reference.

* The novel formed the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film, Sabotage, though many changes to the plot and characters were made.

He used Alfred Hitchcock's, Rebecca, and Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr as key references to " dive in the dark and psychic intimacy of the characters ".

The two first appeared as their characters Charters and Caldicott in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 thriller The Lady Vanishes.

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

In 1946, he played a refugee Nazi agent opposite Cary Grant and Casablanca co-star Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.

In 1990 Hussey played Norma Bates, the mother of Norman Bates in Psycho IV: The Beginning, a TV prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

In 1976, he appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's final film Family Plot, playing the boyfriend of a medium played by Barbara Harris ; Dern told an interviewer that, due to Hitchcock's failing health, the director often asked his assistance during the production.

Other films during this period include Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess with Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter ( 1953 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), where he played a priest who influenced Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando ) to testify against mobster-union boss Johnny Friendly ( Lee J. Cobb ).

The character of Arthur Brisbane, not seen until the climax, is played by special effects matte artist Albert Whitlock, who painted the mattes for Alfred Hitchcock's " The Birds " and many other films.

His smooth, upper-crust English accent and sleek British manner, along with a suave, snobbish and somewhat threatening air, put him in demand for American films throughout the following decade. He played supporting roles in high-end productions such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca ( 1940 ), in which he and Judith Anderson played cruel foils to Joan Fontaine's character.

In Alfred Hitchcock's film Jamaica Inn, he played a virtuous law-officer who is alert, benevolent, serious, dedicated, professional, gallant, and calm in the face of danger, modest and altogether unlike Long John Silver.

Bagdasarian played minor roles in films, the best known of which is his appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 murder mystery Rear Window.

Near the end of his career he played one of the main roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry ( 1955 ).

The theme from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was briefly used during the scene ( at 42: 00 ) where Laurie Strode speaks with Norma Watson ( played by Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis ' real life mother ).

After appearing in two British films, including the starring role of Flora MacDonald opposite David Niven in Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ), the tall willowy actress played second female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) starring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Michael Wilding.

Robert Benchley played Stebbins in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent ( 1940 ).

In 1969, he played Cuban revolutionary Rico Parra in Alfred Hitchcock's Cold War era spy movie Topaz.

His breakthrough third film was Hitchcock's The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) in which he played a crofter ( with Peggy Ashcroft as his wife ).

In film she had a featured role in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy ( 1972 ) and played Mrs. Grey in The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ), the villain in the fantasy films Return to Oz ( 1985 ) and Willow ( 1988 ).

The theater, both outside and inside, was featured in the 1973 French espionage movie Le Silencieux ( in a role somewhat similar to the one played by the Royal Albert Hall in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much ).

Her next film was Hitchcock's Family Plot ( 1976 ), in which she played Julia Rainbird.