Alfred Hitchcock Flashcards
This 1929 Hitchcock film is frequently cited as the first British sound feature film.
Blackmail
This 1931 Hitchcock film, based off a John Galsworthy play of the same name, centers around the feud between the Hillcrist and Hornblower families.
The Skin Game
She was Hitchcock’s wife and occassional co-writer and editor.
Alma Reville
The title of this 1932 Hitchcock film is the address of the house in which a group of criminals hides money after robbing a jewelry store.
The Number Seventeen
This 1934 Hitchcock musical features music by Johan Strauss I and II. It was part of the cycle of operetta films made in Britain during the 1930s.
Walzes from Vienna
This 1934 Hitchcock thriller was Peter Lorre’s first English-language film, and is considered to be one of the most successful films of Hitchcock’s British period. Hitchcock filmed another version of the film in 1956.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
This 1935 Hitchcock thriller is loosely based off a John Buchan adventure novel of the same name. It stars Robert Donat as a London everyman who gets caught up in preventing the titular organization of spies from stealing British military secrets.
The 39 Steps
When it was released in 1938, this Hitchcock thriller was the most successful British film to date in the country. Starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave, it is based on Ethel Lina White’s book “The Wheel Spins.”
The Lady Vanishes
This 1940 Hitchcock film, based on a novel of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, was the director’s first Hollywood production. It was the first and only Hitchcock film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rebecca
This 1941 Hitchcock film shares a name with but is not related to a 2005 Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie vehicle of the same name. It is the only “pure comedy” he filmed in America.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Joan Fontaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress in this 1941 Hitchcock thriller. It was the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film.
Suspicion
This 1944 Hitchcock survival film is based on a story by John Steinbeck. Taking place during World War 2, it is the first of Hitchcock’s “limited setting” films.
Lifeboat
This 1946 film is described by Hitchcock’s biographer as “first attempt […] to bring his talents to the creation of a serious love story, and its story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this stage of his life.”
Notorious
The title of this 1948 Hitchcock, James-Stewart-starring film centers around the weapon used to commit what the main characters believe to be the “perfect murder” at the start of the film.
Rope
This 1951 Hitchcock film was perhaps the original use of characters “exchanging murders” (i.e., each person commits the murder for the other so they don’t get caught).
Strangers on a Train
