Alfred Hitchcock 'Master Of Suspense'
Alfred Hitchcock born in London in 1899, entered into the British Film Industry in 1920 and directed his first film The Pleasure Garden in 1925. Hitchcock proceeded to make a number of impressive and important films between 1925 and 1934 including The Lodger (1927) and Black Mail (1929) which was also the first British talkie. It was however The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) which marked the beginning of Hitchcock's rise to International fame. His reputation was enhanced in the late 1930s by a number of superb suspense films including The 39 Steps (1935), The Secret Agent (1936) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). Then in 1940 he went to America to direct Rebecca, the only Hitchcock film to win an Academy Award for 'Best Picture'. During the 1940s Hitchcock also demonstrated his technical wizardry by restricting the entire action of a film to the confines of a tiny boat in Lifeboat (1944). It is the fifties however which are regarded by many as Hitchcock's finest decade, his art reaching its full maturity with thrillers such as Dial M For Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958) and Psycho (1960).
Hitchcock posters are amongst the most sought after of all in this collecting field. Unfortunately however there are no known examples of British posters for Hitchcock's British releases in existence.
Psycho
细节
Psycho
1960, Paramount, U.S. one-sheet - 41 x 27in. (104.1 x 68.6cm.), (A-)
1960, Paramount, U.S. one-sheet - 41 x 27in. (104.1 x 68.6cm.), (A-)
来源
The Mel Tormé Collection
出版
BORST, Ron V., Graven Images, p.200