"Ben Hecht consulted Robert Millikan of the California Institute of Technology about the development of a uranium bomb. Selznick complained that the notion was ""science fiction"", only to be confronted by the news of the detonation of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945. Hitchcock formed an independent production company, Transatlantic Pictures, with his friend Sidney Bernstein. He made two films with Transatlantic, one of which was his first colour film. With ""Rope"" (1948), Hitchcock experimented with marshalling suspense in a confined environment, as he had done earlier with ""Lifeboat"" (1944). The film appears to"
"his fears and his repressed desires. Stewart's first movie with Hitchcock was the technologically innovative 1948 film ""Rope"", shot in long ""real time"" takes. The two collaborated for the second of four times on the 1954 hit ""Rear Window"", widely considered one of Hitchcock's masterpieces. Stewart portrays photographer L.B. ""Jeff"" Jeffries, loosely based on ""Life"" photographer Robert Capa, who projects his fantasies and fears onto the people he observes out his apartment window while on hiatus due to a broken leg. Jeffries gets into more than he can handle, however, when he believes he has witnessed a salesman (Raymond Burr)"
"same year. His first film as editor was ""Forbidden Territory"" (1934). Among the films he cut were ""Evergreen"" (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's original version of ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1934), ""Dark Journey"" (1937), ""Action for Slander"" (1937), ""South Riding"" (1938), ""St. Martin's Lane"" (1938), and ""The Spy in Black"" (1939). During World War II, Stewart was commissioned into the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) in 1940 and in 1942 led No. 2 AFPU during the Allied landings in Tunisia. The following year he edited film footage from the fighting into the documentary ""Desert Victory"". In 1944 he co-directed"
"Court case ""Stewart v. Abend"" (1990). After starring in Hitchcock's remake of the director's earlier production, ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1956), with Doris Day, Stewart starred, with Kim Novak, in what many consider Hitchcock's most personal film, ""Vertigo"" (1958). The movie starred Stewart as John ""Scottie"" Ferguson, a former police investigator suffering from acrophobia, who develops an obsession with a woman he is shadowing. Scottie's obsession inevitably leads to the destruction of everything he once had and believed in. Though the film is widely considered a classic today, ""Vertigo"" met with very mixed reviews and poor box-office receipts"
"""Room Service"" (1938), ""Gunga Din"" (1939), ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1939), ""Abe Lincoln in Illinois"" (1940), ""Swiss Family Robinson"" (1940), ""The Curse of the Cat People"" (1944), ""Murder, My Sweet"" (1944), ""Spellbound"" (1945), ""Duel in the Sun"" (1946), ""Portrait of Jennie"" (1948) and ""Johnny Got His Gun"" (1971). Academy Award Nominations (Special Effects category): Academy Award Winner (Special Effects category): As a teenager, Stewart was involved in early experiments in commercial AM broadcast radio. While at RKO Studios, he participated in the production of the first three-strip Technicolor feature film, ""Becky Sharp"" (1935), made by RKO affiliate Pioneer Pictures."
"""Revival of a Realist"", 5 February 2004 Rodney Ackland's first contact with Alfred Hitchcock was as a supporting actor in the 1931 screen version of John Galsworthy's play ""The Skin Game"". But a year later Hitchcock recognised his potential as a screenwriter, collaborating with him on the second film adaptation of J Jefferson Farjeon's London fog-bound thriller ""Number Seventeen"" starring Leon M Lion. Ackland co-wrote the popular British film ""Bank Holiday"" (1938), contributed additional dialogue to ""Young Man's Fancy"" (1940), and made some uncredited contributions to 1941's ""Dangerous Moonlight"" and 1944's ""Love Story"". His screenplay for ""Hatter's Castle"" in 1941,"
"the raison d'être of Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock's first co-production, the experimental ""Rope"", starring James Stewart. In 1945–46, Bernstein formed Transatlantic Pictures in partnership with Alfred Hitchcock in preparation for the end of Hitchcock's contract with David O. Selznick in 1947. Bernstein was an uncredited producer on two of Hitchcock's films, ""Rope"" (1948), filmed in Hollywood, and ""Under Capricorn"" (1949) filmed at MGM-British in Borehamwood, near London. Hitchcock's ""Stage Fright"" (1950) started out as a Transatlantic production, but became a Warner Brothers production after the failure of ""Under Capricorn"". In 1954, Bernstein and Hitchcock dissolved their partnership, after one final"
"have been shot in a single take, but it was actually shot in 10 takes ranging from 4- to 10 minutes each; a 10-minute length of film was the most that a camera's film magazine could hold at the time. Some transitions between reels were hidden by having a dark object fill the entire screen for a moment. Hitchcock used those points to hide the cut, and began the next take with the camera in the same place. The film features James Stewart in the leading role, and was the first of four films that Stewart made with Hitchcock. It"
"the host of the anthology television series ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" which he also produced. In 1958, Hitchcock directed the psychological thriller ""Vertigo"" starring Stewart and Kim Novak. The film topped the 2012 poll of the British film magazine ""Sight & Sound"" of the 50 Greatest Films of All Time and also topped the American Film Institute's Top Ten in the mystery genre. He followed this with the spy thriller ""North by Northwest"" (1959) which starred Grant and Eva Marie Saint. In 1960, he directed ""Psycho"", the biggest commercial success of his career and for which he received his fifth nomination"
"The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1956 American suspense thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Doris Day. The film is Hitchcock's second film using this title following his own 1934 film of the same name featuring a significantly different plot and script. In the book-length interview ""Hitchcock/Truffaut"" (1967), in response to fellow filmmaker François Truffaut's assertion that aspects of the remake were by far superior, Hitchcock replied ""Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made"
"Vertigo (film) Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel ""D'entre les morts"" (""From Among the Dead"") by Boileau-Narcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John ""Scottie"" Ferguson. Scottie is forced into early retirement because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia (an extreme fear of heights) and vertigo (a false sense of rotational movement). Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as"
"unknown young director to make his debut: Alfred Hitchcock. Hicks directed ""Sleeping Partners"" (1930) and ""Glamour"" (1931). In addition, over a dozen films were made either from his plays or his scripts, and he starred in about twenty films, many with his wife. One of his early films was ""Money for Nothing"" (1932) In 1931, he was awarded the Legion of Honour for his promotion of French drama on the English stage. In 1934, he had taken over Daly's Theatre in London, where he produced and appeared in a series of successful plays including ""Vintage Wine"" that he and Ashley"
"film and ""Harvey,"" balked at his $200,000 asking price. His agent, Lew Wasserman, brokered an alternate deal, in which Stewart would appear in both films for no pay, in exchange for a percentage of the profits as well as cast and director approval. Stewart ended up earning about $600,000 for ""Winchester '73"" alone. Hollywood's other stars quickly capitalized on this new way of doing business, which further undermined the decaying ""studio system"". The second collaboration to define Stewart's career in the 1950s was with director Alfred Hitchcock. Like Mann, Hitchcock uncovered new depths to Stewart's acting, showing a protagonist confronting"
"the first choice, but he declined. Stewart received his fourth Best Actor nomination for his performance. Stewart also played the role on Broadway in 1970, which was shot on videotape for NBC as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series in 1972, and on the London stage in 1975. After ""Harvey"", the World War II film ""Malaya"" (1949) with Spencer Tracy, and the conventional but highly successful biographical film ""The Stratton Story"" in 1949, Stewart's first pairing with ""on-screen wife"" June Allyson, his career took another turn. During the 1950s, he expanded into the Western and suspense genres, thanks"
"for 23 performances, but it starred Patricia Hitchcock as Violet, and brought Cook to the attention of her father, Alfred Hitchcock. In 1945, Cook headed to Hollywood, where he was partnered with Ann Morrison Chapin on a trio of film scripts that starred June Allyson. He made his debut with the romantic comedy ""The Sailor Takes a Wife"" (1945) and followed with the psychological drama ""The Secret Heart"" (1946) and the wartime romance ""High Barbaree"" (1947). Cook then worked with Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, on ""Stage Fright"" (1950) and ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951). Cook's treatment for ""Strangers"
"movie rights to a production company, and agreed by contract to renew those rights when the 28-year copyright (then in force) expired. In 1953 the movie rights were bought for $10,000 by Patron Inc., a production company formed by actor James Stewart and director Alfred Hitchcock. The short story was then made into the acclaimed movie ""Rear Window"" (1954), directed by Hitchcock and starring Stewart. Woolrich died in 1968, before the expiration of his 28-year copyright, and control of the literary rights passed to his executor, Chase Manhattan Bank. Chase sold the movie rights for $650 to literary agent Sheldon"
"The 39 Steps (1935 film) The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. The film is very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" by John Buchan. It is about an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called the 39 Steps from stealing British military secrets. After being mistakenly accused of the murder of a counter-espionage agent, Hannay goes on the run to Scotland and becomes tangled up with an attractive woman in the hopes"
"film ""M"" (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre (in his first film role) as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing ""Foreign Correspondent"" (1940), the Oscar-winning ""Rebecca"" (1940), ""Suspicion"" (1941), ""Saboteur"" (1942) and ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite. Notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include ""The Spiral Staircase"" (1946) and ""Sorry, Wrong Number"" (1948). In the late 1940s, Hitchcock added Technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales. Hitchcock's first Technicolor film was ""Rope"" (1948). He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic"
"found the film ""quite funny, but the story was rather confusing."" Number Seventeen Number Seventeen is a 1932 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a stage play by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. The film is about a group of criminals who committed a jewel robbery and put their money in an old house over a railway leading to the English Channel, the film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter."
"Miles) emotionally collapses under the strain. Hitchcock told Truffaut that his lifelong fear of the police attracted him to the subject and was embedded in many scenes. Hitchcock's next film, ""Vertigo"" (1958) again starred James Stewart, this time with Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. He had wanted Vera Miles to play the lead, but she was pregnant. He told Oriana Fallaci: ""I was offering her a big part, the chance to become a beautiful sophisticated blonde, a real actress. We'd have spent a heap of dollars on it, and she has the bad taste to get pregnant. I hate"
"The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period. The film is Hitchcock's first film using this title and was followed later with his own 1956 film using the same name featuring a significantly different plot and script. In the second film with the same title, Hitchcock developed a separate plot and script featuring James Stewart and Doris Day in 1956 for"
"Number Seventeen Number Seventeen is a 1932 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a stage play by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. The film is about a group of criminals who committed a jewel robbery and put their money in an old house over a railway leading to the English Channel, the film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter. After being available only in poor-quality prints for decades, the film"
"to George Schaefer of RKO who agreed to buy the project from Krasna, then Alfred Hitchcock became involved. In the 1939 interview ""What I Do to the Stars"", Hitchcock is about to leave England for Hollywood and says he would like to make a movie with Carole Lombard, casting her not in one of her superficial comedies, but in a serious role, because he believes she could be as good a serious actor as Paul Muni or Leslie Howard. The result was ""Mr. and Mrs. Smith"". Hitchcock was never happy with the result and was later dismissive of the film."
"of his television series ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents""). ""Vertigo"" (1958), a project Hitchcock designed as a showcase for his new star, was met with production delays. Miles' subsequent pregnancy would cost her the lead role, which eventually went to Kim Novak, with whom Hitchcock clashed. ""Vertigo"" (which also starred James Stewart) was not a financial or critical success at the time, with Hitchcock claiming that Novak was miscast. Despite Hitchcock's disappointment regarding ""Vertigo"", he continued to work with Miles, eventually casting her in what is arguably the role for which she is most remembered, that of Lila Crane in ""Psycho"". Miles"
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film) Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Norman Krasna, and starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. It also features Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, and Lucile Watson. While Hitchcock later claimed he directed the film—the only pure comedy he made in America—as a favor to Lombard, the files at RKO Radio Pictures show that Hitchcock himself pursued the project. Ann (Carole Lombard) and David Smith (Robert Montgomery) are a married couple living in New York City who, though in love, have disagreements that"
"Alfred Hitchcock filmography Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) was an English filmmaker and director. Popularly known as the ""Master of Suspense"" for his use of innovative film techniques in thrillers, Hitchcock started his career in the British film industry as a title designer and art director for a number of silent films during the early 1920s, most of which are now lost. His directorial debut was the 1925 release ""The Pleasure Garden"". Hitchcock followed this with """", his first commercial and critical success. It featured many of the thematic elements his films would be known for such as an innocent man on"
"blonde, who at first appears erotically remote, later emerges as down-to-earth and approachable (see ""Family Plot""). The Pleasure Garden (film) The Pleasure Garden is a 1925 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in his directorial debut. Based on a novel by Oliver Sandys, the film is about two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre in London and their troubled relationships. Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him."
"Number 13 (film) In 1922, Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody). Clare Greet and Ernest Thesiger were to star as husband and wife. The story was about low-income residents of a building, financed by The Peabody Trust, founded by American banker-philanthropist George Foster Peabody, to offer affordable housing to needy Londoners. However, the film's budget fell apart, and it was pulled from production after only a handful of scenes were shot. Hitchcock rarely, if ever, spoke about his first directing project, until his biographer, Donald Spoto, asked"
"his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for ""Fry's Turkish Delight"", playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain. Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, ""The Mummy"". In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe"
"stairs counting each one as he ascends. Once he reaches the top he finds a brick wall. Instead of climbing back down, Grover slides down the banister. The 39 Steps (1935 film) The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. The film is very loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" by John Buchan. It is about an everyman civilian in London, Richard Hannay, who becomes caught up in preventing an organization of spies called the 39 Steps from stealing British military secrets. After being"
"the best MacGuffin, or as he put it, ""the emptiest,"" was the one used in ""North By Northwest"", which was referred to as ""Government secrets"". Placing an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances is a common element of Hitchcock's films. In ""The 39 Steps"", the protagonist Richard Hannay is drawn into a web of espionage, after a female spy he meets in a theatre is killed in his apartment. In ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1956), Doris Day and James Stewart play a married couple from Indianapolis vacationing in Morocco when their son is kidnapped. In ""The Wrong Man"", Manny"
"not watch the early version nor read its script, with all the plot details coming from a briefing with Hitchcock. Only the opening scenes of the script were ready when filming begun, and Hayes had to send by airmail the subsequent script pages as he finished them. Hitchcock again brought James Stewart to be his protagonist as he was considering the actor a creative partner, and Paramount wanted a sense of continuity between his works. The director requested blonde Doris Day for the main female role as he liked her performance in ""Storm Warning"", though associate producer Herbert Coleman was"
"written by Laurents and apologized for his role in the deception. Four decades later, Laurents learned he was ineligible for WGA health benefits because he had failed to accumulate enough credits to qualify. He was short by one, the one he failed to get for ""The Snake Pit"". Upon hearing 20th Century Fox executives were pleased with Laurents' work on ""The Snake Pit"", Alfred Hitchcock hired him for his next project, the film ""Rope"" starring James Stewart. Hitchcock wanted Laurents to Americanize the British play ""Rope"" (1929) by Patrick Hamilton for the screen. With his then-lover Farley Granger set to"