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Alfred Hitchcock is regarded as a visual innovator and a master of suspense and the psychological thriller. Take a look at 10 must-see Hitchcock films, according to the American Film Institute and others, before watching "The Girl," a film about the director airing Saturday on HBO.
"The Girl" details Hitchcock's obsession with actress Tippi Hedren — and the ordeals she famously endured — during the filming of "The Birds" in 1963.
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"Psycho" (1960): Actress Janet Leigh appears as Marion Crane in the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's classic thriller. Photo: AP -
"North By Northwest" (1959): Cary Grant is on the run from a crop duster in a scene from Hitchcock's tale of mistaken identity. Photo: Courtesy Texas Public Radio -
"The Birds" (1963): Tippi Hedren stars in the suspense/horror film that depicts a California town which is suddenly the subject of a series of widespread and violent bird attacks over the course of a few days. Photo: UNIVERSAL PICTURES -
"Rear Window" (1954): James Stewart plays a photographer who thinks a murder might have been committed in his Greenwich Village neighborhood. Photo: Contributed Photo -
"Vertigo" (1958): Jimmy Stewart is a former police detective who has been forced into early retirement and is hired as a private investigator to follow a woman, Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak). Photo: Paramount Pictures -
"Notorious" (1946): Cary Grant plays a spy in love with a woman (Ingrid Bergman) who he assigns to seduce a Nazi. Photo: handout -
"Dial M for Murder" (1954): An ex-tennis pro (Anthony Dawson) carries out a plot to murder his wife (Grace Kelly). When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. Photo: WARNER BROTHERS ENTERTAINMENT, New York Times -
"Rebecca" (1940): When a naive young woman (Joan Fontaine) marries a rich widower (Laurence Olivier) and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants. Hitchcock's first American-made film was nominated in 11 Oscar categories and won Best Black and White Cinematography and Best Picture. It is his only film to win Best Picture. -
"The 39 Steps" (1935): Robert Donat is featured in one of Hitchcock's best pre-war films, a cross-country caper involving assassins, military secrets, and a music hall performer with a photographic memory. Photo: Handout -
"Suspicion" (1941): A shy young English woman (Joan Fontaine) marries a charming gentleman (Cary Grant), then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her in this romantic psychological thriller.
© 2013 Hearst Communications Inc.
© 2013 Hearst Communications Inc.
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