This exhaustive biography takes the middle way between the two most common views of Hitchcock. The first Hitchcock is “The Master of Suspense” Hitchcock. This is the man as he wished to be seen: the Alfred Hitchcock Presents Hitchcock, the baby-faced cameo in a score of movies. A thoroughly pr...
The armory had a seating capacity of eight thousand, and in half-page newspaper advertisements Micheaux promised a film as monumental as the facility: a “Mammoth Photoplay…destined to mark a new epoch in the achievements of the Darker Races.” Micheaux’s name was set in large type, his photograph ...
In the spring Jay Presson Allen delivered her second-draft script for a film that would have comprised an informal trilogy of dissimilar subjects linked by the same director and star: Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren. “This ghost story,” Joseph McBride observed in his definitive article on the subject,...
