Alfred Hitchcock Summary

Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980) Universally acknowledged as "The Master of Suspense," the British-born film director Alfred Hitchcock reached the zenith of his accomplishments within the A... Read more

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), was a film director famous for skillfully wrought suspense thrillers. He was essentially concerned with depicting the tenuous relations between people and objects and ren... Read more

In the following essay, Hemmeter reviews the textual antecedents of Alfred Hitchcock's film Sabotage, proposing that the director used both the novel and play versions of The Secret Agent by Jo... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Hatch Alfred Hitchcock might be grateful to us all if we would forget "The Lady Vanishes" and "The Thirty-Nine Steps." We pay him the compliment o... Read more

Critical Essay by Derwent May Gracelessness is the word one wants to describe the overall quality of Alfred Hitchcock's latest film, Rear Window; and no word could be sadder. For what are the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris [Both To Catch a Thief and The Trouble With Harry] drag along from scene to scene without much inner motivation. Of the two films, To Catch a Thief is much more suc... Read more

Critical Essay by Penelope Houston A good deal of Alfred Hitchcock's interest in film-making seems these days to consist in setting himself technical problems for the satisfaction of overcomin... Read more

Critical Essay by Ernest Callenbach Hitchcock is said to be very pleased with [Psycho], and well he might be. In it he has abandoned the commercial geniality of his recent work and turned to out-and-... Read more

Critical Essay by Franz Hoellering Precise and without pretensions, ["The Lady Vanishes"] is the best spy thriller in a long time: growing suspense from beginning to end, no empty threa... Read more

Critical Essay by Penelope Houston What interests Hitchcock? Not precisely character: he creates it, and his flair for casting sustains it, but it is character directed to the ends of a limited drama... Read more

Critical Essay by FranÇois Truffaut with Helen G. Scott To stay with the audience, Hitchcock set out to win it over by reawakening all the strong emotions of childhood. In his work the viewer ... Read more

Critical Essay by Joseph Mcbride What Hitchcock has done in Topaz is exciting to anyone who believes that an artist's work has coherence, a progression, and a deepening of fundamental themes. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Harry Ringel Like his painter in Blackmail … Alfred Hitchcock employs pointedly nonverbal methods—and not the expositional theatrics so common to most early sound film... Read more

Critical Essay by Andrew Sarris Hitchcock provides only one of many possible approaches to cinema. He is not and never has been a raw realist. To enjoy Hitchcock's films, one must accept the f... Read more

Many critics believe that a Hitchcock film can be identified even if his name has been taken off the credits. I will be looking at his films such as Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), The 39 steps (19... Read more