The only Hitchcock film to ever win a Best Picture Oscar (yeah, it pisses me off too), Rebecca is a delightful Gothic drama, infused with enough tense moments to still be labelled a thriller. It may run a little slowly in the first half, but by the end (with the brightly lit glass of poison milk) you'll still find yourself on the edge of your seat. Fontaine is wonderful as the slowly suspicious wife of Cary Grant, who may or may not be planning on killing her. Despite the ending being destroyed in the editing room (on insistence from the censorship board at the time - a shame, because the original written by Joan Harrison and Samuel Ralpheson is deceptively wicked), Suspicion is still an intriguing romance gone horribly wrong. So with no further ado, I bid you "Good evening", and here we go….Ī collaboration between Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, Hitchcock's Suspicion is a lesser known dramatic thriller but an enjoyable one regardless. For me, these 15 selections are the finest works he ever accomplished and also, from a screenwriting perspective, many of these films are great not just because of Hitch's direction, but also the eloquent and wonderful scripts posted by men like Samuel Taylor, Ben Hecht, John Michael Hayes, and Joseph Stefano. Couple this with the recent release of 15 of his films on Blu-Ray, and the fact that it's nearing Halloween, makes this a seemingly perfect time to revisit the Master of Suspense, and take a look at the best films he offered. This year is seeing the release of two bio-pics about the rotund director The Girl, featuring on HBO, and Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitch. Alfred Hitchcock is one of only a small handful of film director's who can claim to be as famous, if not more so, than the actual films he made himself.
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