The Legendary Alfred Hitchcock and His Catchy Movie Names

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The one constant surrounding a [Alfred Hitchcock] movie is the knowledge that you'll see the best of the filmmaker's art. Moreover, Hitch is one of the few directors whose very name conjures up a particular genre - stylish thrillers with surprise endings. Think "The 39 Steps," "Saboteur," "Shadow of a Doubt," "Spellbound," "Dial M for Murder," "Rear Window," "The Wrong Man," "Psycho" and "Frenzy."

For the record, the singletons are: "Blackmail" (1929), "Murder!" (1930), "Sabotage" (1936), "Rebecca" (1940), "Suspicion" (1941), "Saboteur" (1942), "Lifeboat" (1944); "Spellbound" (1945), "Notorious" (1946), "Rope" (1948), "Vertigo" (1958), "Psycho" (1960), "Marnie" (1964), "Topaz" (1969) and "Frenzy" (1972).

The one constant surrounding a Hitchcock movie is the knowledge that you'll see the best of the filmmaker's art. [...] Hitch is one of the few directors whose very name conjures up a particular genre - stylish thrillers with surprise endings.

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The Legendary Alfred Hitchcock and His Catchy Movie Names

"Young men have such short memories..." - Fay Baker, in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946)

Question: How many of the 48 British and American sound movies directed by the gifted ...

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