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unusual facts about Hitchcock


Buffalo Stadium

During demolition, pieces of the ballpark were moved to nearby Hitchcock, Texas, and stored at the Hitchcock Naval Air Station.


Aaron Buzacott

Her sisters also married missionaries, and her brother, Mr George Hitchcock, a friend and neighbour of Samuel Morley's at St Paul's Churchyard, became noted for his support of Congregationalism and his support for the nascent Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

As the program's theme music, Charles Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette, plays, Hitchcock appears in silhouette from the right edge of the screen, and then walks to center screen to eclipse the caricature.

Angus MacPhail

Ivor Montagu, who worked with Hitchcock on several of his British films, attributes the coining of the term to MacPhail.

One of Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite devices for driving the plots of his stories and creating suspense was what he called the 'MacGuffin'.

Anthony Lovett

Influenced by Russ Meyer, David Lynch, John Waters, Fellini, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Lovett's own cinematic style fluctuated between surreal, sophomoric, and salacious.

Atlantic and Danville Railway

Short branches from main line led to West Norfolk, Hitchcock Mills, and Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia, and a 50-mile narrow gauge line ran from Emporia, at a junction with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), northeast to Claremont on the James River.

Dallas Principles

The authors of the Dallas Principles are Juan Ahonen-Jover, Ken Ahonen-Jover, John Bare, Jarrett Barrios, Dana Beyer, Jeffrey H. Campagna, Mandy Carter, Michael Coe, Jimmy Creech, Allison Duncan, Michael Guest, Joanne Herman, Donald Hitchcock, Lane Hudson, Charles Merrill, Dixon Osburn, Lisa Polyak, Barbra Casbar Siperstein, Pam Spaulding, Andy Szekeres, Lisa Turner, Jon Winkleman, and Paul Yandura.

Do You Like Hitchcock?

The Hitchcock videos rented or taken from the video store include Strangers on a Train and Dial M for Murder while the posters include Vertigo and images of Alfred Hitchcock himself.

Film studies

In 1965, film critic Robin Wood, in his writings on Alfred Hitchcock, declared that Hitchcock's films contained the same complexities of Shakespeare's plays.

Francesco Siacci

Known as Siacci’s method, it was a major innovation in exterior ballistics and was widely used almost exclusively at the beginning of World War I. Several modifications of the method are still in use today, including those of H.P. Hitchcock and R.H. Kent, and James Ingalls.

Freedom isn't free

"Freedom Is Not Free" was first coined by retired U.S. Air Force Colonel, Walter Hitchcock, of New Mexico Military Institute.

Goodnight Oslo

Colin Meloy of The Decemberists provided one of the backup vocals in "Saturday Groovers", as Mr. Hitchcock provided guitar for a track on the Decemberists' album The Hazards of Love.

Gordon Harker

He appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and a cameo appearance in Elstree Calling (1930), a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock.

Inaam Dus Hazaar

This movie is a scene for scene remake of Alfred Hitchcock` s thriller North by Northwest.

J. Tobias Anderson

In his video works, most frequently in the form of animations, Anderson refers to film history and renowned film classics, as well as film genres - particularly Hitchcock, along with action and thriller sequences of escape and chase (from films North by Northwest, Rope, The Birds and Bullitt).

James Hitchcock

Jimmy Hitchcock (1911–1959), Major League Baseball player, also known as Jim Hitchcock

Jewels for Sophia

Kimberley Rew, Hitchcock's erstwhile collaborator in The Soft Boys, also appears on two songs, the first time in nearly 20 years the pair had recorded together.

Josephine Douglas

She was born in Huddersfield, England, and began her career by appearing in minor roles in several British films during the 1950s including the Hitchcock film Stage Fright (1950).

Kryptonics

Webb, Ford and Hartley all left the band and they were replaced by Russell Hopkinson and Greg Hitchcock, both from The Bamboos.

LaSalle Street Station

This station was a set for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, and in the 1973 movie The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

Leytonstone tube station

In honour of the centenary of the birth of film director Alfred Hitchcock (born 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone), the London Borough of Waltham Forest commissioned the Greenwich Mural Workshop to create a series of mosaics of Hitchcock's life and works in the tube station.

Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival

Live At The Cambridge Folk Festival is a 1998 album by Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, containing live recordings from the Cambridge Folk Festival of Hitchcock's back catalogue.

Mehnaz Hoosein

In 1999, Mehnaz recorded a duet called "You Are The Reason" with Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock of the band Air Supply for the soundtrack of Dev Benegal's award-winning film 'Split Wide Open'.

Mimic 3: Sentinel

Mimic 3: Sentinel stars horror film veteran Lance Henriksen and takes a departure from the tone of the first two films, as it has a feel similar to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window rather than the action/horror tone of its predecessors.

Mount Lemmon

The Catalina Highway, also called the Mount Lemmon Highway, as well as the Hitchcock Highway (after Frank Harris Hitchcock) runs up the Santa Catalina Mountains from the east side of Tucson up to Summerhaven, at the top of Mt. Lemmon.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Benson praised the story's "many surprising turns" and believed that if it were a film it would "have much of the same tension that something like Hitchcock's North by Northwest had."

Pimlico Mystery

In the famous book Hitchcock/Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock tells to French New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut that he once intended to make a film about this case, but later on he dropped the idea because Truffaut's film Jules and Jim also dealt with—according to his vision—a ménage à trois.

Rattana Pestonji

For Rongraem Narok, (literally hotel hell, but entitled Country Hotel in English), he employed the use of one camera on a single set, similar to Hitchcock's 1948 film, Rope.

Samuel A. Taylor

He was often contracted to write drafts for Hitchcock's later films, such as Torn Curtain (1966), though Taylor's only other Hitchcock screenplay (apart from Vertigo) was for Topaz (1969).

Sarita Choudhury

By the late 1990s, Choudhury added to her repertoire with supporting roles in the Hitchcock remake, A Perfect Murder, 3 A.M, and the John Cassavetes retread Gloria.

Self-Indication Assumption Doomsday argument rebuttal

This objection to the Doomsday Argument (DA), originally by Dennis Dieks (1992), developed by Bartha & Hitchcock (1999), and expanded by Ken Olum (2001), is that the possibility of you existing at all depends on how many humans will ever exist (N).

Stephanie Reaves

Reaves also appears as "Norma Bates" in the infamous shower scene, of Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, Psycho.

Stewart v. Abend

The short story was then made into the acclaimed movie Rear Window (1954), directed by Hitchcock and starring Stewart.

Storefront Hitchcock

Storefront Hitchcock is the title of a soundtrack album by Robyn Hitchcock, released in support of a film of the same name, which was directed by Jonathan Demme.

The End of Twerk

Written by Michael Hitchcock, and directed by Wendey Stanzler, it aired on Fox in the United States on November 14, 2013, and features the return of special guest stars Ioan Gruffudd as Paolo San Pablo, the Funny Girl leading man, and Peter Facinelli as Rupert Campion, the show's director.

The Lodger

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, a 1927 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on the 1913 novel

The Paradine Case

In an interview with François Truffaut, Hitchcock said that he and his wife Alma Reville wrote the first draft of the script together, before bringing in Scottish playwright James Bridie to do a polishing – but Selznick was dissatisfied with the result, and would view the previous days rushes, do a rewrite, and send the new scenes to the set to be shot.

The Soft Boys

The band formed in 1976 in Cambridge, England as Dennis and the Experts comprising Robyn Hitchcock (guitar), Rob Lamb (half brother of radio host and author Charlie Gillett; guitar), Andy Metcalfe (bass), and Morris Windsor (drums).

Tim Scully

The product from the lab was distributed by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love; Scully was connected with the Brotherhood via Billy Hitchcock.

Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald modeled two characters in his books on Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.: Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925) and the Tommy Barban character in Tender Is the Night (1934).

Aldrich Jr., Nelson W. Tommy Hitchcock: An American Hero (1985) Fleet Street Publishing Corp.

Voice in the Night

:"Voice in the Night" was also an episode in Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Suspicion adapted from The Voice in the Night, a short story by William Hope Hodgson

Wrong Man

The Wrong Man, a 1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock which stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles


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