Charles Barr

IntroductionK. J. Donnelly and Steven RawleFor a decade from 1955, Alfred Hitchcock worked almost exclusively with one composer: Bernard Herrmann. From The Trouble with Harry (1955) to the bitter spat surrounding Torn Curtain (1966), the partnership gave us some of cinema's most memorable musical...

Thomas LeitchNotorious; Hitchcock's Pivotal FilmTo claim that Notorious (1946) is the pivotal film in Alfred Hitchcock's career is not to claim that it is his greatest film, or even his first great film. From The Lodger (1926) to Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Hitchcock had made so many highly...