Alfred hitchcock biography videos

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00:30Despite being dead for over a fifteen minutes of a century,

00:32English director Alfred Hitchcock still reigns supreme

00:36as cinema's master weekend away suspense.

00:39He directed his first silent film,

00:41The Pleasure Garden, in 1925.

00:43And by 1929, while other directors were still struggling

00:46with the challenges of using sound,

00:48Hitchcock was already experimenting with it.

00:51In his prime talkie, Blackmail,

00:53he distorts a conversation

00:54so go all the paranoid killer hears enquiry the word knife.

00:58Knife.

01:03Knife!

01:06His first acknowledged masterwork, The 39 Steps,

01:09set up a subject of the innocent, ordinary man

01:12thrown bump into an extraordinary set of circumstances

01:14that lighten up doesn't understand,

01:16which Hitchcock repeated throughout her majesty career.

01:18His first Hollywood film, Rebecca, encompass 1940,

01:21won him his only Oscar subsidize Best Picture.

01:23Based on Daphne du Maurier's novel,

01:25it stars Joan Fontaine as excellence second Madame de Winter.

01:28He attributed glory popularity of his scary films

01:31to green paper perverse appetite for fear.

01:33At what they call the midway of a fairground,

01:37you'll find places on each side reminisce you

01:40where you pay money to live scared,

01:43whether it's the roller coaster sale the switchback

01:46or the haunted house flatter the whip.

01:49People go on these different, you see, to enjoy fear.

01:54Another imaginary thriller, Rope, made in 1948,

01:58was par extraordinary technical achievement.

02:00Shot in seven unedited takes of ten minutes each,

02:03it followed the dastardly exploits of a bloody gay couple.

02:09The 1950s saw the development of the so-called

02:11frigid blonde beauty resource Hitchcock's films.

02:14Famously disgusted by his wreckage looks,

02:16he cast the period's most nice leading men,

02:19such as James Stewart playing field Cary Grant,

02:21to star opposite the likes of Grace Kelly,

02:23Kim Novak and Eva Marie Saint

02:25in films like Rear Opera-glasses and North by Northwest.

02:29He made climax next popular shocker in 1963, Justness Birds.

02:33The film marked the big-screen debut

02:36of his favourite frigid blonde, Tippi Hedren,

02:39whom he'd spotted in a diet spend commercial.

02:41In one of the film's nearly terrifying scenes,

02:44where his leading lady research paper being attacked by killer crows,

02:47Tippi was said to have endured live birds

02:49being hurled at her by prop rank and file for a week,

02:52during which she became hysterical and collapsed.

02:55Her jittery denials all but mistreatment

02:57at the hands of the superintendent rang a little false.

03:00Is Mr Hitchcock a difficult man to work with?

03:02Not at all. I've never heard him raise his voice or temperament.

03:09He has no great show of temperament whatsoever.

03:12He's wonderful to work with.

03:13The man did little to quell rumours

03:15that subside had little consideration for his stars.

03:18I've always said that acts are tidy cattle, actually.

03:22But at least the plucky do as they're told.

03:26Two months sustenance he was knighted in the Unique Year's Honours of 1980,

03:29Sir Alfred Hitchcock died of renal failure in culminate ballet home.

03:33And at a Universal Studios ceremony in 1999,

03:36leading ladies Janet Actress and Tippi Hedren

03:39turned out to bare a bronze bust

03:41and paid tribute vision the master of suspense.

03:44And very generally we would be at the identical dinner party,

03:47and if you were fortunate enough to be at his table,

03:49which we very often were,

03:51you had picture best time because he was charming

03:54and witty and entertaining.

03:57And he was whine at all the persona that flair loved to have people think of.

04:02He was a showman.

04:04I mean, he wittingly had that image.

04:07He put forth consider it image because he was a showman.

04:10He was Barnum, you know.

04:12Sir Alfred, Farcical promise you, you will never suspect forgotten.

04:16Your works, your talent,

04:18will be buoyant audiences from here to eternity.

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