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...idea for Lifeboat first occurred to Director Alfred Hitchcock. John Steinbeck wrote the idea into a story (still unpublished). With Hitchcock's help, Scripter Jo Swerling wrote the story into a screen play. The cinematic problems involved in keeping nine characters and their story dancing for two hours upon the pin point of one lifeboat were staggering. Result: a remarkably intelligent picture, almost totally devoid of emotion. Its characters are not so much real people, derelict upon a real sea, as they are a set of propositions in a theorem. Their story is an adroit allegory of world shipwreck...
Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
...American Promoter. This showcase of normalcy was discovered quite by chance by Alfred Hitchcock and Thornton Wilder, when they were wondering where to make Shadow of a Doubt. But Santa Rosa might never have played a repeat performance as the All-American town had it not been for sandy-haired, bazooka-voiced Charles G. Dunwoody, manager of Santa Rosa's Chamber of Commerce...
MAINSTREAM-Hamilton Basso-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...book is avowedly and completely ghostwritten. Names and places have been changed and shuffled to confuse the Gestapo. Mrs. Shiber valiantly insists that otherwise it all happened that way. But some readers may suspect that Paris-Underground has been somewhat influenced by Alfred Hitchcock...