Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

A high point of Hitchcock's pre-Hollywood career, 1935's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first and best of three film versions of John Buchann's rather stiff novel. Robert Donat plays the rancher embroiled in a plot to steal British military secrets. He finds himself on the run; falsely accused of murder, while also pursuing the dastardly web of spies alluded to in the title. With a plot whose ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

A strong candidate for possibly the most entertaining and enjoyable film ever made by a Hollywood studio, North by Northwest is positioned between the much heavier and more profoundly disturbing Vertigo (1958) and the stark horror of Psycho (1960). In the corpus of Alfred Hitchcock films it shows the director at his most effervescent in a romantic comedy-thriller that also ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Ray Milland, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Farley Granger
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbours. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behaviour ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Georgine Darcy, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Manufacturer: Fremantle
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Dreamlike and nightmarishly surreal, Vertigo is Hitchcock's most personal film because it confronts many of the convoluted psychological issues that haunted and fascinated the director. The psychological complexity and the stark truthfulness of their rampant emotions keeps these strangely obsessive characters alive on screen, and Hitchcock understood better than most their barely repressed ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes". From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Manufacturer: Network
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Googie Withers, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

When it premiered on CBS on October 2, 1955, Alfred Hitchcock Presents was an instant hit destined for long-term popularity. The series' original half-hour anthology format provided a perfect showcase for stories of mystery, suspense, and the macabre that reflected Hitchcock's established persona. Every Sunday at 9:30 p.m., the series began with the familiar theme of Gounod's "Funeral March ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock