Alfred Hitchcock Movies-Best to Worst-Including Box Office Results with Inflation.
85Alfred Hitchcock on the set of his biggest hit of his career 1960's Psycho.
Alfred Hitchcock directed well over 50 films in his six decade career. Hitchcock directed his first 26 movies in England from 1922 to 1939. He directed his last 30 movies in the United States from 1940 till 1976. Some of his early successes in England were 1926's The Lodger, 1929's Blackmail(considered to be the first movie from England with sound), 1934's The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1935's The 39-Steps and 1938's The Lady Vanishes.
Legendary producer David O. Selznick(Gone With The Wind) signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when the Hitchcock family moved to the United States. This hub will only be looking at Hitchcock's Hollywood movies....not because I have anything against England.....other than they kept very poor box office records in the 1930s.
Talk about getting off to a good start, Hitchcock's first Hollywood movie was 1940's Rebecca. Rebecca would be a smash hit, earned 11 Oscar® nominations, including Hitchcock's first ever nomination for Best Director and won the Oscar® for Best Picture of the year.
My favorite Alfred Hitchcock film.....1959's North by Northwest.
Hitchcock's Hollywood Years 1940-1976.
The 1940s produced the classic Hitchcock movies Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound and Notorious. The 1950s were the peak years for Hitchcock...movies like Strangers on a Train, To Catch A Thief, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Dial M for Murder all were produced in the 1950s. His biggest box office success came in the 1960 movie Psycho(the movie that made half of America afraid to take showers). Psycho would prove to be the top of the mountain for Hitchcock. He would only direct six more movies and none would reach the level of success of his earlier movies. His last movie was 1976's Family Plot. Alfred Hitchcock passed away in 1980.
Hitchcock's biggest box office hit 1960's Psycho....368.90 million in 2011 dollars.
Alfred Hitchcock's Top Ten Box Office Hits...Ranked By 2011 Inflated Box Office Dollars.
Movie Year
| Box Office in 2011 Dollars
| Stars
|
|---|---|---|
#1 Psycho (1960)
| 388.90 million
| Anthony Perkins
|
#2 Rear Window (1954)
| 372.90 million
| Grace Kelly
|
#3 Spellbound (1945)
| 251.20 million
| Gregory Peck
|
#4 Notorious (1946)
| 240.10 million
| Cary Grant
|
#5 North by Northwest (1959)
| 195.60 million
| Cary Grant
|
#6 Rebecca (1940)
| 187.60 million
| Laurence Olivier
|
#7 To Catch A Thief (1955)
| 151.00 million
| Cary Grant
|
#8 Dial M For Murder (1954)
| 132.80 million
| Grace Kelly
|
#9 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
| 130.40 million
| James Stewart
|
#10 Suspicion (1941)
| 118.50 million
| Cary Grant
|
Alfred Hitchcock's highest rated movie according to critics/audiences 1954's Rear Window.
This table shows the highest scoring Alfred Hitchcock movies based on critic consensus from Rotten Tomatoes and the public opinions from IMDB and Yahoo Movies.
Rank Movie Year
| Critics Audience Score
| Stars
|
|---|---|---|
#1 Rear Window (1954)
| 94%
| James Stewart
|
#2 North by Northwest (1959)
| 93%
| Cary Grant
|
#3 Vertigo (1958)
| 92%
| James Stewart
|
#4 Psycho (1960)
| 92%
| Anthony Perkins
|
#5 Rebecca (1940)
| 91%
| Laurence Olivier
|
#6 Strangers on a Train (1951)
| 91%
| Robert Walker
|
#7 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
| 90%
| Joseph Cotten
|
#8 Notorious (1946)
| 90%
| Cary Grant
|
#9 Rope (1948)
| 89%
| James Stewart
|
#10 Lifeboat (1944)
| 86%
| Tallulah Bankhead
|
Hitchcock's highest rated movie according to Movie Score...1940's Rebecca....box office success, critical acclaim, Oscar® winner Best Picture.
The following table ranks all of Hitchcock's 30 U.S. movies by Movie Score. Movie Score is the combination of box office grosses and critical/audience scoring.
Rank
| Movie Year
| 2011 Inflated Box Office (Millions)
| Cogerson Movie Score
| Critics Audience Rating
| Oscar®Noms / Oscar® Wins
| Variety Box Office Rank for Year
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st
| Rebecca (1940)
| 187.60
| 88.48
| 91%
| 11 / 02
| 2nd ranked movie of 1940
|
2nd
| Rear Window (1954)
| 372.90
| 82.05
| 94%
| 04 / 00
| 5th ranked movie of 1954
|
3rd
| Psycho (1960)
| 388.90
| 81.35
| 92%
| 04 / 00
| 3rd ranked movie of 1960
|
4th
| Spellbound (1945)
| 251.20
| 80.81
| 80%
| 06 / 01
| 3rd ranked movie of 1945
|
5th
| North by Northwest (1959)
| 195.60
| 73.47
| 93%
| 03 / 00
| 8th ranked movie of 1959
|
6th
| Notorious (1946)
| 240.10
| 72.69
| 90%
| 02 / 00
| 8th ranked movie of 1946
|
7th
| To Catch A Thief (1955)
| 151.00
| 62.62
| 85%
| 03 / 01
| 20th ranked movie of 1955
|
8th
| Suspicion (1941)
| 118.50
| 57.59
| 80%
| 03 / 01
| 33rd ranked movie of 1942
|
9th
| The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
| 130.40
| 56.26
| 82%
| 01 / 01
| 18th ranked movie of 1956
|
10th
| Dial M for Murder (1954)
| 132.80
| 55.84
| 84%
| 00 / 00
| 32nd ranked movie of 1954
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| 2011 Inflated Box Office (Millions)
| Cogerson Movie Score
| Critics Audience Rating
| Oscar®Noms / Oscar® Wins
| Variety Box Office Rank for Year
|
11th
| Vertigo (1958)
| 93.00
| 51.88
| 92%
| 02 / 00
| 21st ranked movie of 1958
|
12th
| Lifeboat (1944)
| 65.20
| 51.69
| 86%
| 03 / 00
| Not in Top 30 of 1944
|
13th
| The Birds (1963)
| 103.40
| 50.90
| 85%
| 01 / 00
| 18th ranked movie of 1963
|
14th
| Rope (1948)
| 96.20
| 50.38
| 89%
| 00 / 00
| 56th ranked movie of 1948
|
15th
| Foreign Correspondent (1940)
| 89.00
| 49.72
| 83%
| 00 / 00
| Unknown
|
16th
| Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
| 70.00
| 46.09
| 90%
| 01 / 00
| 81st ranked movie of 1943
|
17th
| Torn Curtain (1966)
| 104.10
| 44.38
| 67%
| 00 / 00
| 8th ranked movie of 1966
|
18th
| Frenzy (1972)
| 71.60
| 44.34
| 79%
| 00 / 00
| 14th ranked movie of 1972
|
19th
| Strangers on a Train (1951)
| 62.80
| 44.29
| 91%
| 00 / 00
| 55th ranked movie of 1951
|
20th
| The Paradine Case (1947)
| 104.10
| 43.12
| 62%
| 01 / 00
| 53rd ranked movie of 1948
|
Rank
| Movie Year
| 2011 Inflated Box Office (Millions)
| Cogerson Movie Score
| Critics Audience Rating
| Oscar®Noms / Oscar® Wins
| Variety Box Office Rank for Year
|
21st
| Sabateur (1942)
| 75.50
| 41.34
| 75%
| 00 / 00
| 69th ranked movie of 1942
|
22nd
| Family Plot (1976)
| 62.00
| 38.06
| 73%
| 00 / 00
| 26th ranked movie of 1976
|
23rd
| I Confess (1953)
| 58.00
| 37.97
| 75%
| 00 / 00
| 52nd ranked movie of 1953
|
24th
| The Trouble with Harry (1955)
| 43.70
| 36.04
| 78%
| 00 / 00
| 90th ranked movie of 1955
|
25th
| Marnie (1964)
| 50.90
| 35.38
| 72%
| 00 / 00
| 30th ranked movie of 1964
|
26th
| The Wrong Man (1956)
| 31.80
| 34.00
| 79%
| 00 / 00
| 91st ranked movie of 1957
|
27th
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
| 68.40
| 33.86
| 58%
| 00 / 00
| Not in Top 41 of 1941
|
28th
| Stage Fright (1950)
| 40.50
| 33.77
| 73%
| 00 / 00
| Not in Top 95 of 1950
|
29th
| Under Capricorn (1949)
| 61.20
| 31.61
| 55%
| 00 / 00
| 90th ranked movie of 1949
|
30th
| Topaz (1969)
| 46.90
| 29.45
| 57%
| 00 / 00
| 35th ranked movie of 1970
|
Ten Things About Alfred Hitchcock.
1. Hitchcock's opinion about actors/actresses...."I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle".
2. Hitchcock loved to have MacGuffins in his movies. MacGuffins are basically decoys...they get the audience to think something is important and by the end of the movie the audience realizes they were not really important after all.
3. Hitchcock would do cameo appearances in most of his movies.....for a great hub on his cameos check out fellow hubber Steve Lensman's Hitchcock's Cameos hub which includes a video of the cameos.
4. Hitchcock would be nominated five times for a Best Director Oscar...but he never won....he was nominated for Rebecca, Spellbound, Lifeboat, Psycho and Rear Window.
5. Hitchcock was given a honorary Oscar (Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award) in 1968.
6. Hitchcock made 4 movies with Cary Grant...those movies were Suspicion, Notorious, To Catch a Thief and North by Northwest. For a great read on North by Northwest check out this hub from Tracykarl99 The-Quintessential-Hitchcock-Film on that classic Grant movie.
7. Hitchcock made 4 movies with James Stewart...those movies were Rope, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window and Vertigo.
8. Hitchcock's favorite actress was Grace Kelly...they made three movies together...Dial M For Murder, To Catch a Thief and Rear Window.....Hitchcock kept hoping Kelly would return to movies...she never did.
#9 Hitchcok has been described as the most influential filmmaker of all-time.
#10 Hitchcock wanted to call North by Northwest....The Man on Lincoln's Nose.....he was overruled...but he did sneak a Shakespeare reference into the title.
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The man was a cinematic genius, possibly the greatest director in film history (Certainly in the top 5). The guy made so many amazing films. That shower scene in "Psycho" is one one of the most iconic pop-culture images ever. I think "Rebecca", "The Birds" and "Rear Window" were my personal favorites.
A bit of trivia: After making two films with Tippy Hedron, (Marnie & the Birds) Hitchcock became strangely obsessed with her. It creeped poor Tippy out so much that she walked out on the third project they were scheduled to make together. (On the plus side, it led to Tippy's career change from an actress to an environmental crusader.)
Great hub;
Rob
Nice. Now I can say I have every single movie on your list in my collection Cogerson! :)
Been a fan of Hitch's since seeing North by Northwest as a wee lad. It is probably still my favourite of his films, but I also love Psycho, Vertigo and Rear Window too.
It is interesting to see Rebecca top your moviescore list, great film and the only Best Picture Oscar winner of his films. From his British films pre-1940 The Lady Vanishes is my favourite and most watched.
I knew Psycho was his most successful film but I didn't know how successful wow it sure looks impressive in adjusted dollars, Spellbound and Notorious were huge too. Interesting looking at those box office figures, good work, enjoyed the trivia too.
I remember renting Psycho on Super 8 back in the late 70's, the entire film on reels of film projected on a screen. A year later I had a VHS recorder and it was goodbye Super 8. I was soon recording Hitchcock's films off the TV. :)
Excellent hub on my favourite movie director Cogerson and thanks for the link.
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Very nicely done, Hitchcock has aged very nicely, I can still enjoy some of the classics like Psycho, North by Northwest, and I do not think Grace Kelly has ever looked pretty than in To Catch A Thief, Hitch liked those blondes. Voted up.
Hey mentalist acer....the Birds and Psycho sealed his master of terror title....I remember seeing the Birds on tv as a kid and it scaring me....as I waited for the bad stuff to happen.....ah...the power of imagination....thanks for stopping by
Hey Rob....I agree with your top Hitchcock films.....my wife loves Rebecca and we seem to watch that one every couple of years....interesting story on Tippi Hedren....I know Hitchcock had a strong liking towards blondes....maybe he was afraid Tippi was going to leave him like Grace Kelly did....thanks for reading and commenting
Hey Steve....I will probably have to turn in my movie fan card....I only have one of the movies on the list....North by Northwest.....as for Rebecca being the top one....that Oscar win for Best Picture plus the 11 nominations put it ahead statistically over some of his greater known movies....I tried unsuccessfully to get some England box office numbers from his pre-Hollywood career.....but did not even come close to finding any information.....and finally do you think Topaz is being unfairly ranked as the worst of Hitchcock? as always thanks for reading and commenting
hey hinton1966.....I agree 100% ....Grace Kelly looked awesome in all of the Hitchcock movies.....I would say Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn....would rank high on that list for the 1950s...I appreciated the compliment.
Cogerson, Topaz is my least favourite from his later films so I'm not complaining seeing it at the bottom. I'm surprised to see Marnie so low on the list, some critics think very highly of it, not me.
Saboteur is a favourite, plenty of action as an innocent man is accused of sabotage and murder and a memorable climax taking place on the torch of the Statue of Liberty, a sort of precursor to North by Northwest.
Two important themes run through many of Hitch's films, "the mother figure" and the innocent man on the run.
Hey Steve....I read that Hitchcock's dad punished little Alfred by sending him to the police station with a note saying please lock my son up for ten minutes for misbehaving....evidently it terrified him so much....that he kept thinking about being stuck in jail for no reason...thus the theme "innocent man on the run" was formed. As for Topaz....I thought it was a horrible movie....actually the only one after The Birds that I liked at all would be Family Plot....I have not seen Saboteur in awhile but I clearly remember the Statue of Liberty scene.
Hitchcock was the master, I read that he pretty much sold the public the impression that Psycho was a light comedy, and then took great joy when people started getting cut up. Today the preview would spoil the movie and everybody would know all the twists months before seeing the movie. Great job Cogerson, this one is a winner. voted useful.
Psycho is the banner movie for Sir Alfred Hitchcock. Although, I enjoy much reading for its book version. Thanks for this great review, Cogerson!
Birds is one of my FAVORITE movies!!! Psycho messed with my mind and showers for days after watching it!!!
I never ever attempted to get into Alfreds head! :)
Another cogerson Masterpiece! UP/TWEET(haha get it...Birds Tweet)
I agree YankeesRule, previews today give away too much information....now you can watch a preview and now most of what is going to happen....thanks for reading
Hey travelman.....I was not aware that there was a novel.....I wonder how different the movie and the novel are.....Psycho is easily his most famous movie...thanks for the comments
Hey Sunshine....I think Psycho messed with lots of people and it lasted more than a couple days....The Birds was his last great movie....I appreciate the compliment....and as always thanks for checking out my hub....
Very nice, I have seen one Hitchcock movie, and that was Psycho. Thanks for an educational article. Voted up.
Excellent, I really enjoy Hitchcock movies, they are classics, looking at your list I would say that The Wrong Man is ranked too low. Henry Fonda is awesome in that movie.
Very well done Cogerson, some of his movies, especially The Birds and Psycho take me back to my youth, I remember how much they scared me back then. voted up and useful.
You are very welcome Alabama Girl.....glad I could help you know a little bit more about Hitchcock.
Hey Jamie.....The Wrong Man....was one of his worst performing movies at the box office.....which pulled down his score....not really sure why it did so poor....especially when you look at his classics made at the same time.....thanks for stopping by.
Hey KellyE...those two movies helped him earned his master of terror title....today I still feel Psycho is much scarier than the Birds....the Birds would be rated PG these days...thanks for the comments.
Hitchcock made some wonderful movies - Marnie, Topaz and The Birds were very entertaining movies - I still like to see Marnie with Sean Connery...Good information - I voted up......
Lot of work here! Great job! I've always been a fan of A.H..
Thanks for the vote up BERN1960.....the movies you listed were some of his last movies he ever made....sorry you movies you like did not fair very well in the rankings.....but any Hitchcock movie is better than most movies...thanks for the comments and stopping by.
Thanks for the compliment Radioguy.....I am glad you enjoyed the hub.....I only wish I could have found more information on his England days.....thanks for reading.
I love Alfred Hitchcocck movies. "Rebecca" and "Marnie" are two movies I can see again and again. According to Tippi Hedron, who starred in "Marnie" and "The Birds" he had a bizarre sense of humor. He once gifted her with a shrunken head. Ewww!
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Hey Fay....Tippi was Hitchcock's third blonde.....first he was madly in love with Grace Kelly.....when she left to become a real queen....Hitch kept trying to replace her....first he tried Kim Novak and then Tippi..... in reading some Hitchcock books....Tippi pretty much stopped making movies to get away from Hitch.....so when Melanie Griffith(Tippi's daughter)....made Body Double(pretty much a tribute movie to Hitchcock)...even more ironic.....I agree that Rebecca and Marnie are very good films....Marnie is a movie most people pretty much ignore, but those that watch it, agree that it is a very good movie.....as always thanks for reading.
Hey Cogerson...I forgot to mention that the book "Marnie" is a quick read and riveting from the opening line to the last.
Director's interpretation of books are often disappointing, but Hitchcock was exceptional.
Thanks for the update Fay, I noticed when I was reading numerous books on Hitchcock, that he liked to find a novel he liked and then turn it into a movie. I will have to check out Marnie the book.....it has been a very long time since I saw Marnie the movie....thanks for stopping by.
Psycho is the scaries movie ever made, all done with the imagination, the blade never touches the Janet Leigh's double a single time. Very well done.
Excellent hub! I love Hithcock's work so much! Over at Hulu.com you can see just about every Hitchcock Hour or A. Hitchcok Presents. I spent weeks watching them all, recently. I've never heard of a MacGuffin. I'm going to do some more research on this. Thanks for the excellent Info. Voting you up! And, totally awesome!
Hey Norman...as in Norman Bates?....you are 100% correct...the shower scene is considered one of the scariest brutal scenes ever.....but if you actually watch it in slow motion....all you see is knife...eyes.....water....shadows.....all the terror happens in your imagination which makes it all the better....in current movies....we would have to watch the knife do the damage and lots of special effects blood....thanks for the compliment.
Hey Angela....I loved his tv show as well...even the one they did in the late 80s.....I will have to check out Hulu to find my favorite two episodes... one was about a female prisoner that tries to escape from jail and ends up in a coffin with the person that was going to help her escape.....the other was about a wife that got raped and as they are going home from the hospital she sees a guy and says...."that's him...the guy that raped me"...so the husband follows the guy and kills him and goes back to the wife.....as they continue the drive....she sees another guy....and says...."that's him....the guy that raped me"....Hitchcock was known for his MacGuffins and his cameos...the above link from Steve Lensman has a great video with about 25 of his cameos ...thanks for reading....it is greatly appreciated.
I love your articles! Very interesting information. Voted up.
Very interesting information here! Have always enjoyed Hitchcock films, especially Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds. Great hub!
Hitchcock was the master, I would mention all the movies others have already mentioned, but I think I will throw some love to Shadow of Doubt, I love that movie. Great hub voted up and usedful and awesome.
Thanks for the compliment Multiman....I am glad you like the hub....thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for reading my hub Painted Seahorse....all 4 of your favorites did pretty well in the rankings...2nd, 3rd, 11th and 13th....and they all are classics....thanks for the comments
Thanks for the compliment ShaunBroncoMan....I actually have not seen Shadow of a Doubt....I will have to check it out...thanks for reading my Hitch hub.
I love this hub! You've done a fantastic job of highlighting the greatest of Hitchcock and his films. So bizarre that I should read this hub now, because I just finished watching Rear Window and had forgotten how SCARY is was! I may do a hub on that film. BTW: Have you ever seen The Trouble With Harry? Different ~ I loved it. Oh, and thanks very much for the generous link ~ I will do the same for you... perhaps in a Rear Window hub:)
Nice Hitchcock article, too bad you do not have his early films,I am thinking some of those would rank pretty high. My favorite Hitchcock movie is To Catch a Thief. Thanks for sharing and posting.
Thanks for the great compliment tracykarl99, Rear Window has some great scary moments in it. Your Hitchcock hubs are awesome, so I want more people to read them.....as for The Trouble With Harry....I have seen it twice....the first time I was very disappointed in it.....however after a second view years later, I found it to be a pretty good movie after all....not in the same league as his great classics, but a movie that has its moments....and a very young Shirley Maclaine...thanks for stopping by
I agree Tyler, I would have loved to have been able to use his earlier films, I am still researching, but it does not look.....as for how they would rank....I think The Lady Vanishes and The 39-Steps would have to be in his Top Ten...thanks for reading and commenting.
Coger-san, just to let you know there are plenty of inexpensive Hitchcock anthologies out there. I have a great one of the British films and another of those filmed in America. My favorites of Hitch's lesser films are 'The Trouble with Harry' with its corpse that won't stay buried and the suspenseful serial killer thriller, 'Frenzy'.
Thanks for reading and commenting Boomer Flicks.....The Trouble With Harry seems to have a bigger following that what I was thinking....granted it was made right in the middle of Hitchcock's peak years.....in one of the books I read about him....he was very surprised that the movie did not do better at the box office. I bet if the movie had been released ten years later, the public could have handle the comedy of the dead body showing up everywhere.
I love all of his movies, great read on a great director, I really like seeing all the box office numbers.
i had no idea that spellbound was so big.
Thanks for stopping by WDH, I am glad you like the box office numbers....I think it helps realize how well a movie back in the 1940s would matchup with current movie grosses.
Great story, he was a great director, with a very long career, I agree with other coomenters, seeing the box office totals is pretty cool.
Thanks Dave...this hub was very easy to write as we were talking about lots of classic movies...thanks for reading.
I do not like him as much as I do Kubrick, but I do acknowledge that Hitchcock made some outstanding movies, especially when using Cary Grant and James Stewart. I like the rankings but I Spellbound is way too high. No way it is better than North By Northwest, Vertigo or Dial M For Murder. Of the two Gregory Peck movies it the best of those two, but both have not aged well at all.
Thanks for the comments Richard, Hitch and Kubrick have to be some of the greatest directors of all time....as for Spellbound being ranked so high....all I can say is it was Hitchcock's 2nd biggest hit, earned 6 Oscar nominations...but I do agree it has not aged as well as some of Hitch's other classics.
Hickox was a great director. I heard that after a while he had his cameos put in earlier in his films because people were watching for him instead of paying attention to the movie. He like to joke around and in the movie family plot during a funeral the protestant minister was quoting from the Book of Mormon.
Hey ruffridyer....his cameos began a very popular thing in his movies and after awhile he got tired of doing them....so he started to put them earlier in the movie, just to get them out of the way. I did not know about the protestant minister quoting the Book of Mormon....very funny stuff...thanks for the comments
This is great, Cogerson.
I've seen nearly all of Hitch's films since Blackmail. The films before that there are still some missing. My favourite of all time is Rear window, perhaps because this was my first Hitchcock movie. a very close sescond is North By Northwest.
I'm definitely going to be following you.
Thanks for the compliment FloraBreenRobison....I am glad you liked my Hitchcock hub....I wish I had more information on his England made movies....only a few got released here in the USA.....I think Rear Window and North by Northwest is one heck of a one two punch. Thanks for following me.
I see you've updated your Hitchcock hub with some new charts Cogerson, nice work!
So Rear Window was his biggest hit of the 50's? I wasn't expecting that, thought it might be North by Northwest, both excellent films.
Spellbound the biggest of the 40's, I would have guessed Notorious, it was close though.
After North by Northwest many sneered and shook their heads at Hitchcock for making a black and white horror film, they thought he had lost the plot, but Hitch had the last laugh Psycho was his biggest hit.
This is unusual Bruce I've seen all the Hitchcock films on your charts and a few more that aren't on there. That hasn't happened before! :)
Of course, you left out his Pre-Hollywood British output. I've seen and own 10 of those, here they are -
1927 Lodger ,The
1929 Blackmail
1930 Murder
1934 Man Who Knew Too Much ,The
1935 Thirty Nine Steps ,The
1936 Sabotage
1936 Secret Agent
1937 Young and Innocent
1938 Lady Vanishes ,The
1939 Jamaica Inn
My favourite from that group is The Lady Vanishes followed by The 39 Steps.
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The only Hitchcock film I haven't seen since moving to United states is Under Capricorn. So I've seen 97% of these. However, there is a number of films from his British days that I still have not seen. However, I have seen all those that Steve lists plus Rich and Strange, Juno and the Paycock, the two short propaganda films he made, and Number 17. Some I own, others I've seen on TCM etc.
Hey Steve...thanks for checking out my Hitchcock mini update...in my constantly evolving movie hub...I have decided to include the ranking of the movie in its main year of release....I am kicking myself for not doing this the first time....when all the information was there but I choose to ignore it...now I have to go back and do the searches all over again.
Like or dislike my Movie Score formula....I need box office numbers for the formula to work...and unfortunately 1930s box office information is very limited and even worse for a foreign film that did not get much of a release in the states...so I had to decide to only look at Hitch's USA films...which leaves out some great Hitch movies....which I agree with you The Lady Vanishes and The 39-Steps are classics.
The stat that sticks out to me on the latest column...The Wrong Man only being the 91st highest grossing movie in 1957....Our Idiot Brother is currently the 91st highest grossing movie this year....how many people have even heard of Our Idiot Brother....as for my count...I have 21 of the 30 movies I have listed and 3 of the 10 you listed...so 24 for me.
Hey Flora....Thanks for information...so I finish last again in our little competition...I have watched 6 Hitchcock movies in the last 3 or 4 months....and I am about to rewatch Psycho in the near future. And if you count how many times I have seen North by Northwest and Rear Window then I am leading....lol. Thanks for the revisit.
Don't be too sure about the number of times you've seen Rear Window and North by Northwest. I watch both of them several times a year...:)
Rear Window is one of the few films I've watched twice in one evening. I remember renting it and watching it with a friend who was also a Hitchcock fan back in the early 80's. First viewing for both of us after reading about it for years, as soon as it finished we rewound the tape and watched it again. Great film.
Hey Flora and Steve....I acknowledge you two know have seen more Hitchcock than me...as well as having tons more information about Hitch....seeing that I am third ....I wonder who is second in Hitch knowledge and who is first in Hitch knowledge....now that would be a great idea for a game show....put two experts on a subject together and find out who is more knowledgeable.
Flora would probably beat me, I think she watches them more frequently than I do. And my memory isn't what it used to be. I can tell you the character names in Psycho and North by Northwest but can't remember Ray Milland's name in Dial M for Murder, was it Frank, John, Robert? But I do know who the composer was. :)
Here's a Hitchcock quiz you and Flora might enjoy -
Hey Steve...it is hell getting old...but it is better than the alternative....lol. Surprised you are conceding to Flora on Hitchcock trivia...thanks for the link...on my way to checking it out.
Well I scored a 552 on that test...I was rolling into we got into Sabotage and Sabateur territory.
Don't tell Flora but I got 2 wrong on that quiz, oh the shame of it! I thought Psycho was his most violent film but apparently it isn't. And I got that last question wrong, forgot what it was now. My memory is getting bad! Who are you people?
For some strange reason, when I try to click on the link, I'm taken to a page telling me I don't have the right software. I have flash, so I do not understand. Fate does not want me to take that test....
Steve-no, that is actually Frenzy, where the killer is a serial killer and strangles women while raping them. It is really annoying I can't open the quiz.
Frenzy was the answer but I would have put stabbing a woman to death higher up on the violence scale than strangulation. Looking at the results average for that question only 34% get it right.
Don't know why it doesn't work for you Flora, here is the HTML version of the same quiz maybe it'll work now -
Thanks. This link worked. I got ten out of ten. Frenzy is the most violent because the largest number of people are killed.
Well done Flora, there is a tougher Hitchcock quiz on there if you want to give it a go.
I actually got the question of most violent film correct...probably because I had just recently watched Frenzy....well done both of you. I am impressed with your Hitchcock knowledge.
I absolutely love Afred Hitchcock and his films. Rebecca is by far my favorite, and me and my grandmother have seen every last one of his other films - including the black and white ones from way back when Hollywood had not discovered him yet.
Thank you so much for sharing this, it brought back lots of memories for me.
Hey Rachelle....glad my hub could bring back some fond memories of you and your grandmother. Rebecca is a classic. The only Hitchcock film to win Best Picture and he had lots of great films. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my Hitch hub.
A great Hub! Hitchcock is a favorite of mine as well. I have always been partial to The Birds and Psycho. I appreciate your patronage to my hubs - I'm just getting started and need an excellent hub writer like yourself to help me get off the ground. Keep up the good work!
Hey thatmovieguy....glad you liked my Hitchcock hub. I just recently rewatched Psycho ...and it still is such a great movie. Reading your hubs is fun...and I wish you lots of success in the future.
I just finished watching Under Capricorn on TCM. It was the first time I had seen it. It is ironic about that movie. It was a financial disaster. As a Hitchcock film it is an anomaly like Mr. and Mr. Smith was a Hitch anomaly as a comedy. If you were watching for Notorious-type suspense, yes there is much to find lacking. But never mind that AH made suspense films and look at it for its own merit. (For those of your readers who are only familiar with the recent film MAMS, this is a completely separate marriage comedy starring Robert Montgomery.)
Yet this is not a bad film. Indeed, it is a very strong costume drama about marriage and sacrifice, alcoholism and an attempt to keep the alcoholic sick out of jealousy. If you were to start watching the movie after the credits were finished and were lied to and told that this was directed by George Cukor instead, you would not be disappointed. It is very reminiscent in tone to Gaslight. When I pretend the movie is Cukor, I love the film. I don't understand why over time it hasn't become better known than it is.
Thanks for the review Flora....I imagine that really only leaves a few of his movies for you to watch. Interesting point you make about it seemed like a George Cukor movie than a Hitchcock movie. A comparison to Gaslight is pretty impressive as I really like that movie with Charles Boyer give a great performance which seems overshadowed by Ingrid Bergman's Oscar winning performance. Thanks for stopping by.
It's not a five star film like Gaslight, but it is a solid film and much better than its reputation. Watching it in retrospect, it is quite haunting in that this was the last film she made before the film she made with Rosselini and all the mess that happened afterwards. The reasons for being ostracized by society were totally different, but her film character was considered a pariah due to her alcholism and odd behavior when drugged. Also, the dark past of Cotten which was far more complex than anyone imagined
Hey Flora...she(Bergman) was the queen of Hollywood before the Rosselini relationship...which is a shame because that almost ten year run was one the best runs ever for any actor or actress. Your mini-reviews have me thinking I should put this on my list of movies to watch....which has room on it as I just watched Scrooge and Exodus today...two classics that I have been trying to watch for awhile.
Hey Flora....thanks for the link...about to check it out.
Here's a bit of trivia on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho - The woman who gets stabbed to death in the shower is Janet Leigh - mother of Jamie Lee Curtis. Great hub. I love Hitchcock movies!
Hey DarylnCochrane...thanks for that piece of trivia. I am also a huge fan of Hitchcock....and I just re-watched Psycho a couple of months ago. A classic movie directed by a classic director. Thanks for the comment and the visit.
Mentalist acer Level 6 Commenter 11 months ago
Hitchcock,s Psycho and Bird's are the one that I remember.Birds defined,to me,true surrealism as if the characters truly entered another dimension.;)