The Master of Suspense's favorite child—revealed by the people who made it.
Acting
Teresa Wright's radiant recollections at 82.
Direction
Bouzereau's unobtrusive let-them-talk approach.
Writing
Hitchcock's own words on why this one mattered.
Director
Laurent Bouzereau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bouzereau became the unofficial Hitchcock documentary king, eventually making docs on nearly every major Hitchcock title for Universal.
Cotten and Wright shot their interviews separately—she in California, he in New York—yet their chemistry still sparks through editing. Hitchcock would have approved.
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One of my favourite Hitchcock movies. It's bittersweet and induces a nostalgia for the kind of world I have never even known.
@JZHerrenberg 18
I love all Hitchcock movies, but this is my favorite
@fayewinkler8629 8
Hitchcock's first true American film and one of his finest!
@alexdavies7394 6
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