![]() ![]() His trademark can be seen briefly on a neon sign in the view from the apartment window, approximately 55 minutes into the movie. Ten minutes later, he is one of three men on the steps of Government House. In the town square during a parade, wearing a blue coat and brown hat, in the first five minutes. Turning to look at Jane Wyman in her disguise as On the left side of the class-reunion photo,Ĭrossing the top of a staircase after the opening credits.īoarding a train with a double bass fiddle asįarley Granger gets off in his hometown, early in the film. ![]() Winding the clock in the songwriter’s apartment, a half Ten minutes in, sitting to the left of Cary Grant Walking past the parked limousine of an old man who is lookingĪt paintings, twenty minutes into the film. Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace (his back to the In a gray suit walking in the street, eleven minutes in. Missing a bus during the opening credits. ![]() Leaving the pet shop with two white terriers as Tippiįour minutes in, through Janet Leigh’s window as she returns Even as movies hardened in the ’70s after the collapse of the Hays Code, Hitchcock gleefully followed suit, concluding his career with sordid, cynical takes on his formula in Frenzy and Family Plot.Entering from the left of the hotel corridor after Tippi 1948’s Rope was his first color film, and what followed seemed an endless beloved parade of wrong men, guilty women, and nefarious murderous plots: Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, and on and on. When color became the movie standard, he ascended to the Master of Suspense mantle that will become his enduring legacy. And yet Hitch was only just getting started. He started in the 1920s during the silent era ( The Lodger), transitioned to sound when many of his peers and actors could not ( The 39 Steps), and came to America at the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age (Best Picture-winning Rebecca). ![]() As director, Hitchcock withstood every significant upheaval of the industry and, in fact, seemed to flourish with each transition. Watching the movies Alfred Hitchcock made over his five-decade career is not only a thrilling way to spend your free time, but doubles as a legitimate lesson in the history and development of cinema. (Photo by Universal) Alfred Hitchcock Movies Ranked by Tomatometer ![]()
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