Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Hitchcock KBE
Studio publicity photo, circa 1955.
Born	Alfred Joseph Hitchcock 13 August 1899(1899-08-13) Leytonstone, Essex, England
Died	29 April 1980 (aged 80) Bel Air, California, United States
Cause of death	Renal failure
Other names	Hitch The Master of Suspense
Alma mater	Salesian College, London, St Ignatius' College
Occupation	Film director, film producer
Years active	1921–1976
Religion	Roman Catholic
Spouse	Alma Reville (m. 1926–1980; his death)
Children	Patricia Hitchcock

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an influential English film director. He directed films from 1922 to 1976 with Family Plot as the last film. Alfred Hitchcock is also famous for working with Film composer Bernard Herrmann.

Life

British Era (1922 to 1939)

Before coming to America, Alfred Hitchcock made several films in England. But compared to his American films, they were less jewish influenced. The first film project Hitchcock made in England was Number 13 (1922). But this was never finished. Alfred Hitchcock considered his third film "The Lodger (1927)" as his first true film. Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film was Blackmail (1929). Alfred Hitchcock went on to make several films. His notable films in 1930s are his only musical Waltzes from Vienna (1934), The Man Who Knew too Much (1934), The 39 steps (1935), Young and Innocent (1937), and The Lady Vanishes (1938). His last film made in England was Jamaica Inn (1939).

Hitchcock and wartime propaganda

The American film industry, argued to early has had a large Jewish influence, started to make numerous anti-German movies long before the war. See Allied psychological warfare: Hollywood.

In 1939, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood and WWII started. Several of his fictional movies were covertly or overtly anti-German.

Hitchcock was persuaded by Sidney Bernstein, a Jewish media executive and wartime member of the British "Ministry of Information", to make British propaganda films. He made two short propaganda films, Bon Voyage (1944) and Aventure Malgache (1944), but they were viewed as disappointments and not generally seen until the 1990s.

Hitchcock also assisted on another Sidney Bernstein project, "F3080", which was the name given to a project to compile a propaganda film on claimed German atrocities. The project originated in February 1945 in the Psychological Warfare Division of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force). Hitchcock was recorded expressing his primary concern that "we should try to prevent people thinking that any of this was faked."

The film was initially given the name Memory of the Camps. The project was abandoned in September 1945 after a screening. It has more recently been "completed" and given the name German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.

One reason for the abandonment may have been the existence of other such propaganda movies, such as the American Death Mills, partly using the same footage. See Holocaust documentary evidence: Movies.

Other suggested reasons for the abandonment, aside from the possibility of it simply being viewed as a poor propaganda film after the screening, include British concern about the growing Zionist movement and the British military wanting better relations with Germans.

Leftist Wikipedia in its articles on Hitchcock and the film avoids mentioning that also mainstream historians now agree that the Western Holocaust camps, such as Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald, were much of the film takes place, were not extermination camps. See the article on the Western Holocaust camps.

See also the "External links" section on other criticisms of this film and Hitchcock's role.

Films directed by Alfred Hitchcock

• Number 13 (1922) (unfinished)
• Always Tell Your Wife (1923)
• The Pleasure Garden (1925)
• The Mountain Eagle (1926) (lost)
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
• The Ring (1927)
• Downhill (1927)
• The Farmer's Wife (1928)
• Easy Virtue (1928)
• Champagne (1928)
• The Manxman (1929)
• Blackmail (1929)
• Juno and the Paycock (1930)
• Murder! (1930)
• Elstree Calling (1930)
• The Skin Game (1931)
• Mary (1931)
• Rich and Strange (1931)
• Number Seventeen (1932)
• Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Secret Agent (1936)
• Sabotage (1936)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• Jamaica Inn (1939)
• Rebecca (1940)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
• Suspicion (1941)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• Lifeboat (1944)
• Aventure Malgache (1944)
• Bon Voyage (1944)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Notorious (1946)
• The Paradine Case (1947)
• Rope (1948)
• Under Capricorn (1949)
• Stage Fright (1950)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• I Confess (1953)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• Rear Window (1954)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• The Trouble with Harry (1955)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• Vertigo (1958)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• Psycho (1960)
• The Birds (1963)
• Marnie (1964)
• Torn Curtain (1966)
• Topaz (1969)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Family Plot (1976)

See also

• Allied psychological warfare
• Holocaust fictional descriptions
• Hollywood Nazism

External links

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica: Sir Alfred Hitchcock
• Encyclopedia.com: Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock and the Holocaust

• Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Alfred Hitchcock's First Horror Movie
• Anti-Gentiles Deny the 5 Million!