Hitchcock thought Wright was one of the most intelligent actors he had worked with, and through his direction brought out her vivacity, warmth, and youthful idealism — characteristics uncommon in Hitchcock's heroines.

Dressed to Kill was a note-for-note homage to Hitchcock's Psycho, including such moments as the surprise death of the lead actress and the exposition scene by the psychiatrist at the end.

Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, Morris visited Plainfield, Wisconsin in 1975.

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.

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.

Opinion is divided on the noir status of several of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers from the era ; at least four qualify by consensus: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Notorious ( 1946 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and The Wrong Man ( 1956 ).

The Bates Motel is an important part of Psycho, a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

* 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 );

* Psycho, a Paramount release, was produced independently by Alfred Hitchcock's Shamley Productions.

Critic Christopher Sharrett argues that since Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ), the American horror film has been defined by the questions it poses " about the fundamental validity of the American civilizing process ", concerns amplified during the 1970s by the " delegitimation of authority in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ".

In Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, Cary Grant references Charles Addams in the auction scene.

* The tune was whistled, as an insult, by Michael Redgrave in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film The Lady Vanishes, which may be the first time it was heard in a film.

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.

Alfred Hitchcock's films were strongly believed to have been extensively storyboarded to the finest detail by the majority of commentators over the years, although later research indicates that this was exaggerated for publicity purposes.

In classic motion pictures such as Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, the director created storyboards that were initially thought by cinematographers as to be impossible to film.

In his 2000 book Which Lie Did I Tell ?, screenwriter William Goldman, commenting on the film, insists that it was Lehman who created North by Northwest and that many of Hitchcock's ideas were not used.

Towards the end of the episode Tony realizes that their Kaplan may have been inspired by the George Kaplan in Hitchcock's North By Northwest.

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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.

One of Hitchcock's characteristic innocent-person-pursued-by-the-police evasions ensues, as Dr. Petersen and the impostor ( who now calls himself ' John Brown ') travel by train to Rochester, to meet Dr. Brulov ( Michael Chekhov ), who had been Dr. Petersen's teacher and mentor.

Pathescope produced a large number of home versions of significant films, including Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop cartoons, classic features such as Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, and comedies by such well-known stars as Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin.

Saul Bass ' opening sequences for Alfred Hitchcock's films ( including Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho ) are highly praised, and inspired several imitators.

The director Henry Whitfield ( Leo G. Carroll ) is a " difficult " director modeled on Alfred Hitchcock, and his assistant Miss March ( Kathleen Freeman ) is modeled on Hitchcock's wife Alma Reville.

Notable examples of Hitchcock's early British suspense-thriller films include The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), his first spy-chase / romantic thriller, The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) with Robert Donat handcuffed to Madeleine Carroll and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

A sequence in the middle of the film takes place in San Francisco, and heavily references Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

She starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) with James Stewart.

During the filming of the film, Day became concerned about Hitchcock's lack of direction.

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 ).

" If Psycho began an exploration of a new sense of absurdity in contemporary life, of the collapse of causality and the diseased underbelly of American Gothic ", he writes, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre " carries this exploration to a logical conclusion, addressing many of the issues of Hitchcock's film while refusing comforting closure ".

After a series of less successful roles, including The Lady Vanishes, the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film of the same name, she dropped out of show business from 1978 to 1982.

This new technique was seen again just two years later in Alfred Hitchcock's film Blackmail ( 1929 ).

The film was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production since leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 ( the first was Rebecca ) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film.

Rebecca was Hitchcock's only film to win Best Picture.

* Josephine Tey's A Shilling for Candles ( 1936 ) — which became the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's film Young and Innocent ( 1937 )

Author and journalist Nick Clooney praised Lehman's original story and sophisticated dialogue, calling the film " certainly Alfred Hitchcock's most stylish thriller, if not his best ".

At Hitchcock's insistence, the film was made in Paramount's VistaVision widescreen process, making it one of the few VistaVision films made at MGM.

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 ".

In his book Bambi vs. Godzilla, David Mamet calls it Hitchcock's finest film.

The film, along with Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho ( 1960 ) and several other films, contributed to the end of the Production Code in the mid-1960s.

Contemporary critic Dave Kehr called it Hitchcock's " first indisputable masterpiece.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the film, the acting, and Hitchcock's direction, and wrote, " With all the skill in presentation for which both gentlemen are famed, David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock have put upon the screen a slick piece of static entertainment in their garrulous The Paradine Case ... Gregory Peck is impressively impassioned as the famous young London barrister who lets his heart, cruelly captured by his client, rule his head.

" Noted online critic James Berardinelli also gave the film a four star review, praising Branagh's direction and all levels of the production from the screenplay by Scott Frank to Patrick Doyle's score, stating, "... Branagh has combined all of these cinematic elements into an achievement that rivals Hitchcock's best work and stands out as one of the most intriguing and memorable thrillers of the 1990s.

In 1965, film critic Robin Wood, in his writings on Alfred Hitchcock, declared that Hitchcock's films contained the same complexities of Shakespeare's plays.

Film critic Father Peter Malone, MSC, has described I Confess as " the most Catholic film of Hitchcock's films.