Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) 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 signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning in March 1939, when the Hitchcock family moved to the United States. 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. The 1940s produced the classic Hitchcock movies Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound and Notorious. The 1950s were the peak years for Hitchcock…with 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.
This Top 10 Alfred Hitchcock Movies You Tube video shows the his top American films based on box office grosses, reviews and awards. Actually it is a Top 11 video….as one of Hitchcock’s most famous movie finished in 11th place. It is a nice companion piece to our Alfred Hitchcock movie page that ranks all 30 of Hitchcock’s movies from 1939 to 1976.
Great video, Bruce.
Rear Window remains the only Hitchcock movie that I have ever seen on the big screen. Went to Vancouver to see it.
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Flora
Thanks Flora….very cool about Rear Window….I would like to see any Hitch film on the big screen. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
Nicely done Bruce with some well chosen clips. The initial shock was seeing that Vertigo didn’t even make the top 10, the general consensus is that it’s one of Hitchcock’s greatest films, Sight and Sound magazine lists it above Citizen Kane. But here even Dial M for Murder tops it. So I expected Psycho or North by Northwest to top your chart, nope. No worries Rebecca is one of my favorite films I even wrote a hub on it so I’m not displeased and ultimately they are all favorites of mine. Voted Up.
Thanks for checking out my Hitchcock video and for the vote up. Vertigo is a classic…..but with all due respect to Sight and Sound….many of their top movies are ones that non-film buffs have never even heard of before. Tokyo Story always has a Top 5 spot….how many people have actually seen that movie? I have but I watched so many movies….I might have a problem…lol.