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Preface to the Revised Edition

Introduction

1: Childhood � Behind prison bars � "Came the dawn" � Michael Balcon � Woman to Woman � Number Thirteen � Introducing the future Mrs. Hitchcock � A melodramatic shooting: The Pleasure Garden � The Mountain Eagle

2: The first true Hitchcock: The Lodger � Creating a purely visual form � The glass floor � Handcuffs and sex � Why Hitchcock appears in his films � Downhill � Easy Virtue � The Ring and One-Round Jack � The Farmer's Wife � The Griffith influence � Champagne � The last silent movie: The Manxman

3: Hitchcock's first sound film: Blackmail � The Shuftan process � Juno and the Paycock � Why Hitchcock will never film Crime and Punishment � What is suspense? � Murder � The Skin Game � Rich and Strange � Two innocents in Paris � Number Seventeen � Cats, cats everywhere � Waltzes from Vienna � The lowest ebb and the comeback

4: The Man Who Knew Too Much � When Churchill was chief of police � M � From "The One Note Man" to the deadly cymbals � Clarification and simplification � The Thirty-nine Steps � John Buchan's influence � Understatement � An old, bawdy story � Mr. Memory � Slice of life and slice of cake

5: The Secret Agent � You don't always need a happy ending � What do they have in Switzerland? � Sabotage � The child and the bomb � An example of suspense � The Lady Vanishes � The plausibles � A wire from David O. Selznick � The last British film: Jamaica Inn � Some conclusions about the British period

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6: Rebecca: A Cinderella-like story � "I've never received an Oscar" � Foreign Correspondent � Gary Cooper's mistake � In Holland, windmills and rain � The blood-stained tulip � What's a MacGuffin? � Flashback to The Thirty-nine Steps � Mr. and Mrs. Smith � "All actors are cattle" � Suspicion � The luminous glass of milk

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7: Sabotage versus Saboteur � A mass of ideas clutters up a picture � Shadow of a Doubt � Tribute to Thornton Wilder � "The Merry Widow" � An idealistic killer � Lifeboat � A microcosm of war � Like a pack of dogs � Return to London � Modest war contribution: Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache

145

8: Return to America � Spellbound � Collaboration with Salvador Dali � Notorious � "The Song of the Flame" � The uranium MacGuffin � Under surveillance by the FBI � A film about the cinema � The Paradine Case � Can Gregory Peck play a British lawyer? � An intricate shot � Horny hands, like the devil!

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9: Rope: From 7:30 to 9:15 in one shot � Clouds of spun glass � Colors and shadows � Walls that fade away � Films must be cut � How to make noises rise from the street � Under Capricorn � Infantilism and other errors in judgment � Run for cover! � "Ingrid, it's only a movie!" � Stage Fright � The flashback that lied � The better the villain, the better the picture

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10: Spectacular comeback via Strangers on a Train � A monopoly on the suspense genre � The little man who crawled � A bitchy wife � I Confess � A "barbaric sophisticate" � The sanctity of confession � Experience alone is not enough � Fear of the police � Story of a m�nage � trois

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11: Dial M for Murder � Filming in 3-D � The theater confines the action � Rear Window � The Kuleshov experiment � We are all voyeurs � Death of a small dog � The size of the image has a dramatic purpose � The surprise kiss versus the suspense kiss � The Patrick Mahon case and the Dr. Crippen case � To Catch a Thief � Sex on the screen � The Trouble with Harry � The humor of understatement � The Man Who Knew Too Much � A knife in the back � The clash of cymbals

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12: The Wrong Man � Absolute authenticity � Vertigo � The usual alternatives: suspense or surprise � Necrophilia � Kim Novak on the set � Two projects that were never filmed � A political suspense movie � North by Northwest � The importance of photographic documentation � Dealing with time and space � The practice of the absurd � The body that came from nowhere

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13: Ideas in the middle of the night � The longest kiss in screen history � A case of pure exhibitionism � Never waste space � Screen imagery is make-believe � Psycho � Janet Leigh's brassi�re � Red herrings � Directing the audience � How Arbogast was killed � A shower stabbing � Stuffed birds � How to get mass emotions � Psycho: A film-maker's film

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14: The Birds � The elderly ornithologist � The gouged-out eyes � The girl in a gilded cage � Improvisations � The size of the image � The scene that was dropped � An emotional truck � Electronic sounds � Practical jokes

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15: Marnie � A fetishist love � The Three Hostages, Mary Rose, and R.R.R.R. � Torn Curtain � The bus is the villain � The scene in the factory � Every film is a brand-new experience � The rising curve � The situation film versus the character film � "I only read the London Times" � A strictly visual mind � Hitchcock a Catholic film-maker? � A dream for the future: A film showing twenty-four hours in the life of a city

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16: Hitchcock's final years � Grace Kelly abandons the cinema � More on The Birds, Marnie, and Torn Curtain � Hitch misses the stars � The "great flawed films" � A project that was dropped � Topaz made to order for the front office � Return to London with Frenzy � The pacemaker and Family Plot � Hitchcock laden down with tributes and honors � Love and espionage � The Short Night � Hitchcock is ill, Sir Alfred is dead � The end

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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

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Selected Bibliography

363

Index of Film Titles

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Index of Names

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