Product Details
- Starring: Alfred Hitchcock, Cliff Robertson
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Richard Schickel
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- EAN: 9781572522305
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- Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 1572522305
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- Label: Winstar
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- Manufacturer: Winstar
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Winstar
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- Release Date: 1998-04-28
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- Studio: Winstar
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1973
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- Title: Alfred Hitchcock-Master of Suspense
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- UPC: 720917107233
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Product Description: This hour-long documentary, written and directed by noted film critic Richard Schickel for the 1971 Public Television series The Men Who Make the Movies, offers a concise, intelligent look at Hitchcock's films. The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively here, delights with (possibly apocryphal) stories of his deep-seated fear of policemen, elaborates on the difference between shock and suspense, defines the meaning of "MacGuffin," and discusses his use of storyboarding in designing a film. Clips from many of his greatest films (including North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt, The Birds, and the legendary shower scene from Psycho) illustrate his points, often to Hitchcock's own voice-over observations, with narrator Cliff Robertson offering other critical insights. An excellent introduction to the filmmaker Schickel describes as "the great artist of anxiety." --Sean Axmaker
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