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title	year	media	actors	music / camera	comment

Rebecca oscar winner 1940	1940	DVD	Joan Fontaine Laurence Olivier Judith Anderson	novel: Daphne du Maurier screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood & Joan Harrison music: Franz Waxman camera: George Barnes

Suspicion ( Verdacht ) FOTO GALLERY	1941	DVD	Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Nigel Bruce	novel: "Before the Fact" by Frances Iles ( Anthony Berkeley Cox ) music: Franz Waxman camera: Harry Stradling	the movie, which definitive founded Hitchcock's fame as master of suspense * unforgettable scenes: * is there poison in the milk? - Cary Grant steps a staircase upwards carrying a glas of milk for his wife * is he trying to throw her out of the car while they drive olong a chasm? or is he trying to calm down her hysteric fidgetiness?

Shadow Of A Doubt ( Im Schaten des Zweifels ) Joseph Cotten The Film Foundation "Movie Extra 6051 East" La sombra de una duda l'Ombre d'un Doute	1943	DVD	Joseph Cotten Teresa Wright Mac Donald Carey	novel: Gordon McDonnell music: Dimitri Tiomkin conducted by: Charles Previn camera: Joseph Valentine	one of the rather less known movies by Hitchcock, undeserved since the very subtle & highly thrilling relation between the niece, a girl on a doorstep to a woman & her attractive & sympathetic uncle, a murderer of older women

Spellbound ( Ich kaempfe um dich ) Freudian themes in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Spellbound'	1945	DVD	Gregory Peck Ingrid Bergman Michael Chekhov Leo G Carroll	novel: "The House of Dr. Edwards" by Francis Beeding music: Miklos Rozsa camera: George Barnes special: Salvadore Dali	interesting not just because of the combination of Freudian psychoanalysis & its surrealistic visualization by Salvadore Dali the story is thrilling & reminds me to another film with Gregory Peck - "Mirage" directed by Edward Dmytryk in 1965 ("Das 27. Stockwerk")

Stage Fright ( Die rote Lola ) But one can learn a great deal more from one of Hitchcock's misfires than from many other filmmakers' best works. Marlene Dietrich & Jane Wyman in Stage Fright	1950	video	Marlene Dietrich Jane Wyman Richard Todd Michael Wilding	novel: "Man Running" by Selwyn Jepson music: Leighton Lucas conducted by: Louis Levy camera: Wilkie Cooper	maybe not one of the best films by Hitch, but somehow interesting because of the tangled & complex storyline - things are not like they seems to be at first & there is the tough Marlene Dietrich & the gentle Michael Wilding reminds me to another film with Marlene Dietrich "Witness for the Prosecution" by Billy Wilder (1957)

Strangers on a train ( Der Fremde im Zug )	1951	video	Farley Granger Robert Walker Ruth Roman Laura Elliott Patricia Hitchcock	screenplay: Raymond Chandler & Czenzy Ormonde music: Dimitri Tiomkin camera: Robert Burks	a strange movie about a conflict of conscience when one is profitting from a murder & catched this way in the trap of blackmail + a nice contribution of Hitchcock's daughter

Dial M for Murder ( Bei Anruf Mord)	1954	video	Ray Milland Grace Kelly Robert Cummings John Williams	screenplay: Frederick Knott music: Dimitri Tiomkin camera: Robert Burks	the peak of the tension is reached during the fight for life, in which the victim survives killing the aggressor with scissors, an often citated scene 1998 there was a slightly good remake with Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Douglas & Viggo Mortensen/David Shaw directed by Andrew Davis, title "A Perfect Murder", screenplay Patrick Smith Kelly

Rear Window ( Das Fenster zum Hof )	1954	DVD	James Stewart Grace Kelly Thelma Ritter Raymond Burr	novel: Cornell Woolrich music: Franz Waxman camera: Robert Burks	a dense movie of mainly happening nothing the situation of the to a wheelchair for a certain time chained reporter is similar to ours, the spectators' watching on the other side of the screen recommended also Van Johnson as a blind playwright in "23 Paces to Baker Street" directed 1956 by Henry Hathaway ( "23 Schritte zum Abgrund" )

The Trouble with Harry ( Immer Aerger mit Harry )	1955	DVD	John Forsythe Shirley McLaine Edmund Gwenn Mildred Dunnock	novel: Jack Trevor Story music: Bernard Herrmann camera: Robert Burks	the most comical film by Hitch, where the murder seems to be not important at all & all people are more busy with themselves than with any sort of fear Shirley MacLaine's laconic kind is very refreshing

To Catch a Thief ( Ueber den Daechern von Nizza ) Grace Kelly's fab B&W dress some cheesy comments	1955	DVD	Cary Grant Grace Kelly John Alderson Jessie Royce Landis	novel: David Dodge screenplay: John Michael Hayes music: Lyn Murray camera: Robert Burks	the most fluffy Hitch

The Man Who Knew Too Much ( Der Mann, der zuviel wußte ) pics with Doris Day	1956	DVD	James Stewart Doris Day	novel: Charles Bennett & D.B. Wyndham-Lewis music: Bernard Herrmann camera: Robert Burks	a touching story about an average american family struggling to get out of attentat preparings Doris Day sings here maybe her most famous song "Que Sera Sera" in a heartbreaking way see also another hitchcocesque DD film by David Miller "Midnight Lace" (1960)

Vertigo ( Aus dem Reich der Toten ) Widescreen Cinema The Vertigo Web Pages Cinemusic De entre los muertos Bernard Herrmann /le Maitre de l'orchestre Vertigo computer graphics Adaptations cinéma Belfast Festival Rare photographs	1958	DVD	James Stewart Kim Novak Barbara Bel Geddes	novel: "D'Entre Les Morts" by Pierre Boileau/Thomas Narcejac music: Bernard Herrmann camera: Robert Burks	a traumatic Hitchcock world full with symbols, colors, dreams, illusions, love & lies maybe it is the less real film by Hitch, where the dream/illusion is just a small step away from the daily reality of lie/illusion James Stewart is proving here once again his marvelous kind of acting despaired trying to reach the beloved woman of his life or maybe rather the freedom from his obsessions

North by Northwest ( Der unsichtbare Dritte ) great home monuments Stills from the opening La Mort aux Trousses on DVD I thought you just collected corpses	1959	DVD	Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Jessie Royce Landis Leo G. Carroll Martin Landau	screenplay: Ernest Lehman music: Bernard Herrmann camera: Robert Burks	it's an incredible movie with Cary Grant, where he can play out masterly the full bandwidth of charm, sexappeal, comical & acting talent Eva Marie Saint plays great her female part & is looking simply good, fragile & tough at the same time Jessie Royce Landis (mother) gives the movie the necessery touch of supporting roles depths in her unnerving mixture of naivity, sarcasm, comic & courage there is just one movie with Cary Grant, which i prefer more & that's "Charade" by Stanley Donen (1963)

Marnie Introducing Tippy Hedren Marnie, the Phantom, and the Dead Mother Review by Guido Henkel How Hitchcock Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blonde. IMDb:Marnie	1964	DVD	Tippi Hedren Sean Connery Louise Latham Diane Baker Bruce Dern Mariette Hartley	novel: "Marnie" by Winston Graham music: Bernard Herrmann camera: Robert Burks	my last favourite film by Hitchcock, Tippy Hedren torments herself through life after a "tough childhood" Sean Connery is trying hand in psychology & taming the beasts of Tippy decent as early 60's movies had to be, but nevertheless a "sex mystery" but who played Jessie? Kimberly Beck!

i will accomplish this list by further informations, links & if necessery some more pictures
i do not think that the ammount of films will change, if so then rather into the earlier movies by Hitchcock,
which i know just very sparse
more informations about the persons (actors, componists & so on) will follow with the time surely
the mentioned films are also waiting to be linked & described

Beam Of Classics
Truffaut & Hitchcock / spanish
LES BLONDES HITCHCOCKIENNES / in french
Hitchcock Films

Screen Dreams
http://www.mheine.com/hitchcock.html

if you can't get enough of Hitchcock
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it's still available here & there
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