More than any other filmmaker, Alfred Hitchcock is the quintessential 20th century movie director. He began his career in the days of silent pictures and continued all the way until 1976, with Family Plot.
During his long career, he directed over 40 features and once said that any movie director could surprise his audience by setting off a bomb, but to show the audience a time bomb, ticking away under a desk as two men calmly discuss baseball, is far more elegant and terrifying.
Instead of shocking his audience with splatter and gore, he terrified us with suspense. Audience have always been overwhelmed with the desire to warn the characters of the danger which they perceive, and which the characters are not aware of, especially in his films since, well murder was usually his calling card. Now thanks to UltraCulture, we can see 36 prime examples of Hitchcock’s method to transfer the threat from the screen to the minds of the audience. Enjoy.
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Here is a list of all the films in the video:
Blackmail
Murder
Rich and The Strange
The Skin Game
Number 17
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The 39 Steps
Sabotage
Secret Agent
Young and Innocent
The Lady Vanishes
Jamaica Inn
Foreign Correspondent
Rebeca
Saboteur
Lifeboat
Spellbound
Rope
Under Capricorn
Stage Fright
Strangers On A Train
I Confess
Dial M For Murder
To Catch A Thief
The Trouble With Harry
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
Birds
Marnie
Torn Curtain
Topaz
Frenzy
Family Plot