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Alfred Hitchcock’s Perfect Trifecta of Music as Plot Device
Discussion of Alfred Hitchcock's use of music as a plot device, particularly in the 1956 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much where each of the musical selections serves as commentary in addition to serving the plot. For more in depth analysis of the lyrics to the...
Happy Thanksgiving!
In celebration of Thanksgiving, I thought I'd leave you with a radio play co-scripted by screenwriter John Michael Hayes (Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Trouble with Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much). It's an episode of The Adventures of Sam Spade called The...
The Four Leaf Clover in Hitchcock’s Rope
Much has been said about Alfred Hitchcock’s selection of Francis Poulenc’s “Perpetual Movement No. 1,” which is played on the piano by Phillip in Rope. Looking at the other music in Rope which plays over the radio, there is a performance by The Three Suns of “I’m...
Revisiting Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man
In mid-1955 while in production on the re-make of The Man Who Knew Too Much for Paramount Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock began planning a film that would be a dramatic departure from the up-beat Technicolor productions he made since leaving Warner Brothers two years...
Plot vs. Story in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious
Continuing our series on the difference between Plot and Story, this week we examine Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious. Hitchcock and screenwriter Ben Hecht crafted one of the director's most gripping spy thrillers around his most famous of MacGuffins—Uranium hidden in...
Hitchcock Halloween Contest
Writing with Hitchcock is proud to announce our first Hitchcock Halloween Contest!Now is your chance to get into the spooky spirit of the season by dressing up as your favorite character from an Alfred Hitchcock movie—Norman Bates, Melanie Daniels, Richard Hannay,...