Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with
fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish
from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great
voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route
across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most
respected film directors of the twentieth century?
As an adult,
Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing
certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and
blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals
something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who
smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the
frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch
did in his own films: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, and James Stewart
despair of his detached directing style and, perhaps most famously of
all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome
flock of birds.
Alfred Hitchcock
wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and
discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot.
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