The master of suspense, from the British thrillers to Family Plot.
The shower scene, the mother and the motel; Hitchcock kills his star forty minutes in.
James Stewart with a broken leg and binoculars watches a murder across the courtyard.
Birds attack Bodega Bay for no reason; the school playground scene.
Hitchcock's obsession film in San Francisco, the dolly zoom and the green light.
Cary Grant chased by a crop duster and up Mount Rushmore in the template for the spy thriller.
Ingrid Bergman spies on Nazis in Rio for Cary Grant; the key, the wine cellar and the longest kiss.
Hitchcock's only Best Picture: a second wife haunted by the first at Manderley.
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