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Alfred Hitchcock / by Ackroyd, Peter,1949-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals Hitchcock to be: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films.
Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.; Motion picture producers and directors;
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Spellbound by beauty : Alfred Hitchcock and his leading ladies / by Spoto, Donald,1941-;
Includes bibliographical references.The third volume in a trilogy exploring the life and work of the legendary director examines Hitchcock's life in terms of his relationships with the actresses in his films, including Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, and Tippi Hedren.
Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980; Motion picture producers and directors;
© c2008., Harmony Books,
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Hitchcock [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Gervasi, Sacha.; Hopkins, Anthony,1937-; Johansson, Scarlett,1984-; McLaughlin, John J.; Mirren, Helen.; Rebello, Stephen.Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho.Videorecording.; Reitman, Ivan.; Cold Spring Pictures.; Fox Searchlight Pictures.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Music by Danny Elfman; director of photography, Jeff Croneweth.Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson.Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma, as he sets out to make the film.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; DTS-HD master audio 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 ; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation.
Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980; Rebello, Stephen.; Psycho (Motion picture :1960); Feature films.; Motion picture industry; Motion picture producers and directors;
© c2013., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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The birds [videorecording] / by Du Maurier, Daphne,Dame,1907-Birds.Videorecording.; Hedren, Tippi.; Hitchcock, Alfred,1899-; Hunter, Evan,1926-; Pleshette, Suzanne,1937-; Tandy, Jessica.; Taylor, Rod,1929-; Universal Studios Home Video (Firm);
Director of photography, Robert Burks; production designer, Robert Boyle; editor, George Tomasini.Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren.When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.MPAA Rating: PG-13.DVD ; Dolby Digital sound (2.0 mono.) ; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.
Subjects: Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame, 1907-; Birds; Feature films.; Horror films.; Human-animal relationships;
© c2000., Universal ; Distributed by Universal Studios Canada,
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Rear window [videorecording (DVD)] by Ritter, Thelm; Burr, Raymond,1917-1993; Corey, Wendell,1914-196; Woolrich, Cornell,1903-196; Hitchcock, Alfred,1899-198; Hayes, John Michael,1919; Grace,Princess of Monaco,1929-198; Stewart, James,1908-199; Corey, Wendell,1914-1968; Ritter, Thelma; Waxman, Franz,1906-1967;
Director of photography, Robert Burks; art direction, J. McMillan Johnson and Hal Pereira; editor, George Tomasini; music, Franz Waxman.James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.Stewart, a photographer with a broken leg, takes up spying and suspects that his neighbor has murdered his invalid wife and buried her in the flower gardenMPAA rating: PGNTSC 1
Subjects: Voyeurism; Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.); Suspense in motion pictures; Video recordings for the hearing impaire; Murder; Detective and mystery film;
© 2001., Universal Pictures,
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Sabotage. by Hitchcock, Alfred,film director.; Tester, Desmond,actor.; Loder, John,actor.; Homolka, Oskar,actor.; Sidney, Sylvia,actor.; Film Movement (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Desmond Tester, John Loder, Oskar Homolka, Sylvia SidneyOriginally produced by Film Movement in 1936.A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Motion Pictures.; Crime.; Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).;
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Rebecca [videorecording] / by Anderson, Judith,1897-1992,actor.; Fontaine, Joan,1917-2013,actor.; Hitchcock, Alfred,1899-1980,film director.; Olivier, Laurence,1907-1989,actor.; Sanders, George,1906-1972,actor.; Selznick, David O.,1902-1965,film producer.; Sherwood, Robert E.(Robert Emmet),1896-1955,screenwriter.; Harrison, Joan,1907-1994,screenwriter.; motion picture adaptation of (work) :Du Maurier, Daphne,1907-1989.Rebecca.; Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Franz Waxman ; adaptation by Philip MacDonald and Michael Hogan.Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce.A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.PG.
Subjects: Feature films.; Haunted places; Man-woman relationships; Widowers;
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The Hitchcock hotel / by Wrobel, Stephanie,author.;
"A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel in this fiendishly clever, suspenseful new novel from the international bestselling author of Darling Rose Gold. Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of the Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the master of suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows. To celebrate the hotel's first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college film club for a reunion. He hasn't spoken to any of them in sixteen years, not after what happened. But who better than them to appreciate Alfred's creation? And to help him finish it. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Bed and breakfast accommodations; Class reunions; Fans (Persons); Friendship; Hotels; Reunions; Secrecy;
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A light in the dark : a history of movie directors / by Thomson, David,1941-author.;
"Directors operate behind the scenes managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions onscreen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production--to say nothing of their having marshalled a script, a studio, and other people's money. David Thomson, in his usual brilliantly insightful way, shines a light on the visionary directors who have shaped modern cinema and, through their work, studies the very nature of film direction. With his customary candor about his own delights and disappointments, Thomson analyzes both landmark works and forgotten films from classic directors such as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir and Jean-Luc Godard, as well as contemporary powerhouses such as Jane Campion, Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino. He shrewdly interrogates their professional legacies and influence in the industry, while simultaneously assessing the critical impact of an artist's personal life on his or her work. He explores the male directors' dominance of the past, and describes how diversity can change the landscape. Judicious, vivid and witty, A Light in the Dark is yet another required Thomson text for every movie lover's shelf"--
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture producers and directors;
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The world of Raymond Chandler : in his own words / by Chandler, Raymond,1888-1959.; Day, Barry (Playwright),editor of compilation.;
"Chandler never wrote an autobiography or a memoir. Now Barry Day, making use of Chandler's novels, short stories, and letters as well as Day's always illuminating commentary, gives us the life of "the man with no home," a man precariously balanced between his classical English education with its immutable values and that of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War, with its resulting changing vernacular. Through his fiction and letters, brilliantly woven together, Chandler reveals what it was like to be a writer, and in particular what it was to be a writer of "hard-boiled" fiction in what was for him "another language." Along the way, he discusses the work of his contemporaries: Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Somerset Maugham, among others. Here is Chandler's Los Angeles, a city he adopted and which adopted him in the post-World War I period ... Chandler on his Hollywood, working with Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and others...Chandler ... organized crime and on his alter ego, Philip Marlowe, private eye, the incorruptible knight with little armour who walks the "mean streets" in a world not made for knights ... on drinking (his life in the end was in a race with alcohol -- and loneliness) ... and here are Chandler's women -- the Little Sisters; the dames -- in his fiction -- and his life"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.; Authors, American; Detective and mystery stories;
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