h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, someone had to provide a list of his movies...

Number thirteen (1922)
Woman to Woman (1923)
The White Shadow (1923)
The Passionate Adventure (1924)
The Blackguard (1925)
The Prude's Fall (1923)
The Pleasure Garden (1925)
The Mountain Eagle (1926)
The Lodger (1926)
Downhill (1927)
Easy Virtue (1927)
The Ring (1927)
The Farmer's Wife (1928)
Champagne (1928)
The Manxman (1929)

=========== Up to 1929 his movies were silent ================

Blackmail (1929)
Juno and the Paycock (1929)
Murder (1930)
The Skin Game (1931)
Rich and Strange (1932)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
The Man who Knew Too Much (1934) (First version)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
The Secret Agent (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Young and Innocent (1937)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)


Rebecca (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1943)
Bon voyage (1944)
Aventure malgache (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Rope (1948)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Stage Fright (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
I Confess (1952)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Trouble with Harry (1956)
The Man who Knew Too Much (1956) (Second version)
The Wrong Man (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)
The Short Night (1980)

Number 13 was actually never finished as the studio abandoned the project, which was very disheartening for young Hitch. Filming on The Short Night was never actually started, so that can be popped off the list. Hitch commissioned and received a script for it, but it never developed further than this stage. In fact, most of his friends and close colleagues knew that the film project was really just a way of allowing him to keep working during his final years.

The White Shadow, Prude's Fall, Passionate Adventure and The Blackguard were writer credits only (although that brings us to the fact that Hitch did, in his early years, fulfil most of the main jobs in film-making, which is what gave him such a good overall picture of the process in later years).

The Pleasure Garden, The Mountain Eagle and The Lodger were all made back to back, but then shelved on the advice of Graham Cutts, a studio exec who had taken a dislike to Hitch. But such was the drought of British films at the time that The Lodger was eventually released (having been re-edited without Hitchcock's involvement). When the film proved a success, the other two were released and slowly Hitch emerged as the leading British director.

I like the way you left a gap there between Jamaica Inn and Rebecca, to rremind us of the point when he emigrated to the USA and began working for David O. Selznick.

This is a great list. Makes it much easier to start thinking about a shape for the eventual entry with all of this.

>I like the way you left a gap there between Jamaica Inn and Rebecca, to remind us of the point when he emigrated to the USA and began working for David O. Selznick.<

I was a bit stuck there for some subheaders like "The British Years" and "The American Years" [or something like that anyway] because of the two short French speaking films he made for the war effort in 1944...
But yes, as he was living in the USA then, they were the "American Years" after all..

I'll try to dig some more...

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It's kind of hard to belive that Psycho came after North by Northest. Psycho's is in B/W and North By Nothwest is in color.