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  1. Alfred Hitchcock filmography. Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) [ 1 ] was an English director and filmmaker. Popularly known as the "Master of Suspense" for his use of innovative film techniques in thrillers, [ 1 ][ 2 ] Hitchcock started his career in the British film industry as a title designer and art director for a number of silent films ...

  2. Oct 28, 2023 · Movie trailers are a film’s initial message to viewers. However, the way they are delivered has evolved immensely over time. ... Hitchcock did most of the advertising for the film, but his ...

    • 'Psycho's Mystery Didn't Work with The Cinema Format
    • 'Psycho'is The Reason Movie Theaters Have Start Times
    • 'Psycho’S Forever Changed How We Go to The Movie Theater

    Psycho was one of Hitchcock’s biggest passion projects, a project that seemingly could not be stopped no matter what needed to be done to ensure it kept going. Production companies nervous about the property? Hitchcock brought in the crew of his smaller TV series and kept the budget as tight as possible so minimal cuts could be made. Constrictive c...

    The way to ensure that audiences would not experience any spoilers by seeing the movie at the wrong time was simple but complicated at the same time. Rather than just playing the movie on repeat, theaters were instead instructed to set specific times that audiences could enter the theater to see it. Nobody could come in in the middle and see a spoi...

    So it came to pass that movie times became the norm when one went out to the theater. Not only did it make sense from Hitchcock’s original perspective, but it made logical sense in a few other ways as well. If a movie is always playing, then projectors might need to be replaced more often, and the only time that staff can actually clean the theater...

  3. Oct 28, 2013 · Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic Psycho ad was a masterful exercise in building anticipation (and the Master of Suspense’s personal brand) without showing so much as a frame from the actual film.

  4. I Confess is a 1953 American film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Montgomery Clift as Catholic priest Father Michael William Logan, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. The film is based on a 1902 French play by Paul Anthelme titled Nos deux consciences (Our Two Consciences), which Hitchcock saw in the ...

  5. BFI entry for Hitchcock's first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) Hitchcock established himself as a name director with his first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927). The film concerns the hunt for a Jack the Ripper -style serial killer who, wearing a black cloak and carrying a black bag, is murdering young blonde women in London, and only on Tuesdays. A ...

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  7. May 13, 2021 · For this episode of Rotten Tomatoes’ new video series, ‘Trailers Reloaded,’ we’re reliving the best of Hitchcock’s trailers – for films like Psycho and The Birds, Dial M for Murder and To Catch a Thief. It’s a journey back through time that offers a fascinating perspective on how movie advertising has changed, and one that proves the Master of Suspense was also a masterful ...

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