Alfred hitchcock biography video edgar

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00:30Despite being dead for over a quarter of a century,

00:32English director Alfred Hitchcock still reigns supreme

00:36as cinema's master of suspense.

00:39He directed his first silent film,

00:41The Pleasure Garden, in 1925.

00:43And by 1929, while other directors were still struggling

00:46with the challenges of using sound,

00:48Hitchcock was already experimenting with it.

00:51In his first talkie, Blackmail,

00:53he distorts a conversation

00:54so that all the paranoid killer hears is the word knife.

00:58Knife.

01:03Knife!

01:06His first acknowledged masterpiece, The 39 Steps,

01:09set up a theme of the innocent, ordinary man

01:12thrown into an extraordinary set of circumstances

01:14that he doesn't understand,

01:16which Hitchcock repeated throughout his career.

01:18His first Hollywood film, Rebecca, in 1940,

01:21won him his only Oscar for Best Picture.

01:23Based on Daphne du Maurier's novel,

01:25it stars Joan Fontaine as the