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3 days ago · Hitchcock insisted that Bernard Herrmann write the score for Psycho despite the composer's refusal to accept a reduced fee for the film's lower budget. The resulting score, according to Christopher Palmer in The Composer in Hollywood (1990) is "perhaps Herrmann's most spectacular Hitchcock achievement".
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5 days ago · Bernard Herrmann is so much more than just Psycho and North by Northwest. He won an Oscar for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), directed by William Dieterle, and was nominated on four other occasions, none of them for Hitchcock films, but it was with Hitchcock that his uncanny ability to extract tension and suggest the extraordinary were seen at their best.
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3 days ago · Alfred Hitchcock directed the film “Psycho”. 2. What is the iconic shower scene in “Psycho”? The iconic shower scene in “Psycho” is one of the most famous and influential scenes in cinema history. It depicts the brutal murder of the character Marion Crane in the Bates Motel. 3.
4 days ago · Heckman notes that Bernard Herrmann was able to "create non-stop panic and terror" by exclusively using strings music. Hitchcock said Hermann’s work was essential to the success of the film and that “33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.”
4 days ago · Lee Pfeiffer. Dial M for Murder, American thriller film, released in 1954, that was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and shot in 3-D. (Read Alfred Hitchcock’s 1965 Britannica essay on film production.) Dial M for Murder, which was based on a play of the same name by Frederick Knott, centres on a murder plan gone.
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4 days ago · Hitchcock pulled Vertigo from circulation in the 1970s and '80s due to financial troubles, but its absence created pent-up demand and ultimately contributed to its resurgence in popularity upon re ...
2 days ago · Answer: The Trouble With Harry. This is one of the famous 'Five Lost Hitchcocks', finally re-released in about 1984, after thirty years of being withheld from the public eye. Hitchcock can be seen about 20 minutes into the movie, walking past the limousine of a man who had stopped to look at Sam's paintings.
