LAB: (until 8:00)
Alfred Hitchcock is considered the "master of suspense" and his career in film was a long and influential one:
His first full length film was The Lodger and appeared in 1926. This was followed by Downhill (1927), The Ring (1927), Champagne (1928), The Farmer's Wife (1928), and Easy Virtue (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929). These were British silent films (Blackmail was not, as you can hear).
You are free to watch any of these films as extra credit.
In the1930's, Hitchcock made even more films, mostly suspense films for which he became famous. These included: Rich and Strange (1931), The Skin Game (clip, 1931), Number 17 (clip, 1932), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) with Peter Lorre, The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Jamaica Inn (1939), then Foreign Correspondent (1940).
At this point in his career, Alfred Hitchcock moves to Hollywood to work with producer David O. Selznick. He makes a variety of films for Selznick, although the two approached film from a very different perspective. Hitchcock often felt trapped or restricted by Selznick's contract. The films include: Rebecca (1940) Laurence Olivier (here's the full film), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Joseph Cotten (from Citizen Kane), Life Boat (1944) Talula Bankhead, Spellbound (1945) with Gregory Peck, Notorious Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman (1946), The Paradine Case (1947), Rope (1948) with Farley Granger & Jimmy Stewart (you'll see more of this guy), and Under Capricorn (1949) with Ingrid Bergman again (you last saw her in Casablanca).
In the 50's he went on to make these films: Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), and North By Northwest (1959)
We will be screening the first part of Rear Window at 8:00.
James Stewart... L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies
Grace Kelly... Lisa Fremont
Wendell Corey... Detective Thomas J. Doyle
Thelma Ritter... Stella
Raymond Burr... Lars Thorwald
Judith Evelyn... Miss Lonelyhearts
Ross Bagdasarian..Songwriter
Georgine Darcy... Miss Torso
Sara Berner... Woman on Fire Escape
Frank Cady... Man on Fire Escape
Jesslyn Fax... Miss Hearing Aid
Rand Harper/Havis Davenport... Newlyweds
HOMEWORK: Continue writing your screenplays. Read the articles/handouts on Hitchcock: "About Hitchcock", Anecdotes, and "Alfred Hitchcock and the making of a film culture" & Vertigo.
- Please read and take notes on Alfred Hitchcock.
- Please continue adapting your treatments into film scripts.
His first full length film was The Lodger and appeared in 1926. This was followed by Downhill (1927), The Ring (1927), Champagne (1928), The Farmer's Wife (1928), and Easy Virtue (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929). These were British silent films (Blackmail was not, as you can hear).
You are free to watch any of these films as extra credit.
In the1930's, Hitchcock made even more films, mostly suspense films for which he became famous. These included: Rich and Strange (1931), The Skin Game (clip, 1931), Number 17 (clip, 1932), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) with Peter Lorre, The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Jamaica Inn (1939), then Foreign Correspondent (1940).
At this point in his career, Alfred Hitchcock moves to Hollywood to work with producer David O. Selznick. He makes a variety of films for Selznick, although the two approached film from a very different perspective. Hitchcock often felt trapped or restricted by Selznick's contract. The films include: Rebecca (1940) Laurence Olivier (here's the full film), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Joseph Cotten (from Citizen Kane), Life Boat (1944) Talula Bankhead, Spellbound (1945) with Gregory Peck, Notorious Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman (1946), The Paradine Case (1947), Rope (1948) with Farley Granger & Jimmy Stewart (you'll see more of this guy), and Under Capricorn (1949) with Ingrid Bergman again (you last saw her in Casablanca).
In the 50's he went on to make these films: Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), and North By Northwest (1959)
We will be screening the first part of Rear Window at 8:00.
James Stewart... L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies
Grace Kelly... Lisa Fremont
Wendell Corey... Detective Thomas J. Doyle
Thelma Ritter... Stella
Raymond Burr... Lars Thorwald
Judith Evelyn... Miss Lonelyhearts
Ross Bagdasarian..Songwriter
Georgine Darcy... Miss Torso
Sara Berner... Woman on Fire Escape
Frank Cady... Man on Fire Escape
Jesslyn Fax... Miss Hearing Aid
Rand Harper/Havis Davenport... Newlyweds
HOMEWORK: Continue writing your screenplays. Read the articles/handouts on Hitchcock: "About Hitchcock", Anecdotes, and "Alfred Hitchcock and the making of a film culture" & Vertigo.
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