Films Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Film Guide) - Psycho, Young and Innocent, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Suspicion, Vertigo, North by Northwest, F (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 110. Chapters: Psycho, Young and Innocent, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Suspicion, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Foreign Correspondent, Spellbound, Shadow of a Doubt, Marnie, Strangers on a Train, Notorious, Alfred Hitchcock filmography, Rope, List of unproduced Hitchcock projects, Themes and plot devices in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca, Lifeboat, The Paradine Case, Topaz, The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Lady Vanishes, Saboteur, Torn Curtain, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, The 39 Steps, List of Hitchcock cameo appearances, Frenzy, Blackmail, I Confess, Family Plot, Stage Fright, Under Capricorn, To Catch a Thief, Number Seventeen, Jamaica Inn, Rich and Strange, Sabotage, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Wrong Man, The Trouble with Harry, Juno and the Paycock, Champagne, The Mountain Eagle, Downhill, The Farmer's Wife, Murder , The Manxman, The Skin Game, Number 13, The Pleasure Garden, Secret Agent, Easy Virtue, Elstree Calling, Waltzes from Vienna, Aventure malgache, The Ring, Mary, Always Tell Your Wife, Bon Voyage, An Elastic Affair. Excerpt: Psycho is a 1960 American film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland, John McIntire, and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The novel was loosely inspired by the crimes of Wisconsin murderer and grave robber Ed Gein, who lived just 40 miles from Bloch. The film depicts the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), hiding at a secluded motel after embezzling money from her employer, and the motel's disturbed owner and manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and the aftermath of their encounter. Psycho initially received mixed...