Alfred Hitchcock

Anna-Liisa Kuslap 11.a

Master of suspense

Facts

• Born: 1899-08-13 • Birth place: Leytonstone,

England • Nationality: English • Profession: director,

production designer, title designer, assistant director, sketch artist, technical estimator, screenwriter, layout assistant, producer

• Father: William Hitchcock

• Mother: Emma Hitchcock

Career

• Paramount's Famous Players-Lasky

• “The Pleasure Garden”

• “The Lodger”

• “Blackmail”

• “Rebecca”

“Psycho”

• Robert Bloch• Wisconsin serial killer

Ed Gein

Characters

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates Janet Leigh as Marion Crane

Shower scene

Interesting facts about “Psycho”• The film only cost $800,000 to make yet

has earned more than $40 million.

• Psycho marked the first time a "toilet" was ever shown and flushed in a film.

• Hitchcock, who made it a tradition to make a cameo in all his films, can be see 4 minutes into the film outside of Marion's workplace.

Motifs- recurring objects, stylistic choices• Ordinary person

• Stairways

• Mothers

• Sexuality

• Crime

• Blonde Women

• Numbers

Death1980-04-29

InfluenceFilmmakers, producers, actors

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