Spellbound

Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) arrives at a Vermont mental hospital as its new director; dr. Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) falls in love with him, but he turns out to be…

Rebecca: A Haunted House

Joan Fontaine and Judith Anderson. Photo: United Artists As Alfred Hitchcock was making his first Hollywood movie, producer David O. Selznick tried his best to influence the British director. Selznick…

The Man Who Knew Too Much 

While vacationing in Switzerland, the Lawrences (Leslie Banks, Edna Best) witness a murder and receive information that should be valuable to the British… but then their daughter is kidnapped. A…

The 39 Steps: Another Man Knows Too Much

Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. Photo: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation In 1934, Alfred Hitchcock had turned his first film for Gaumont British, a thriller called The Man Who Knew Too Much,…

Rope 

Brandon and Phillip (John Dall, Farley Granger) strangle a former classmate to death and hide his body in a wooden chest in their apartment, moments before hosting a party where…

Notorious: Spy Games

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: RKO In the mid-1940s, the legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick had plenty of opinions about the casting of Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming thriller Notorious.…

Vertigo: I Put a Spell on You

James Stewart and Kim Novak. Photo: Paramount One of Alfred Hitchcock's three 1950s Technicolor masterpieces (the others are Rear Window and North by Northwest). Curiously enough, at the time of…

Psycho: Sins of the Mother

Janet Leigh. Photo: Universal In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock decided to shake things up after making several films that were in color, generously budgeted and featured A-list stars. His new picture…

Rear Window: A View to a Kill

James Stewart. Photo: Paramount This masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock reunited the director with James Stewart from Rope (1948), another thriller that was set entirely in one apartment. This film has…