He also shot it as a silent film and some critics prefer it to the sound version, according to Leonard Maltin in his Classic Movie Guide. Hitchcock is credited with making the first talkie in England, called Blackmail, in 1929. (They would also appear in The Hunchback of Notre Dame that same year but to much greater - and deserved - acclaim.) I've never counted his last British production, Jamaica Inn, as a "Hitchcock film." It was not very well received, even though it had Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara as part of the cast. The following is part one of his film-by-film synopsis of all features made by Hitchcock after he crossed the pond in 1940. Our Joe Riddle has made a study of Hitchcock's work in Hollywood. Hitchcock is an icon like James Dean in his red windbreaker, Marilyn with her blown-up skirt or Elvis strangling a microphone with his untended guitar bouncing 'round his hips - people who've never seen his movies know the fat man with the taste for blood. Modern famous directors Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Stephen Spielberg are not as instantly recognizable as Hitch. His contemporaries - Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder, John Ford - never had their own television series, much less his fame. More than that, Hitchcock is still the film director with the most pop culture currency. Though he died in 1980, he remains the world's most written-about and studied filmmaker, with biographies, memoirs, critical studies, trivia and quiz books, chronicles of the making of Psycho and Vertigo. Editor's note: The timid, overweight son of an East End London grocer, Alfred Hitchcock grew to adulthood without displaying any extraordinary aptitude in any area until he more or less wandered into the movie business a hundred years ago.
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