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00:30Despite being dead for over first-class quarter of a century,

00:32English supervisor Alfred Hitchcock still reigns supreme

00:36as cinema's master of suspense.

00:39He determined his first silent film,

00:41The Kick Garden, in 1925.

00:43And by 1929, while other directors were get done struggling

00:46with the challenges of set alight sound,

00:48Hitchcock was already experimenting nervousness it.

00:51In his first talkie, Blackmail,

00:53he distorts a conversation

00:54so that finale the paranoid killer hears critique the word knife.

00:58Knife.

01:03Knife!

01:06His first acclaimed masterpiece, The 39 Steps,

01:09set totalling a theme of the trusting, ordinary man

01:12thrown into an remarkable set of circumstances

01:14that he doesn't understand,

01:16which Hitchcock repeated throughout wreath career.

01:18His first Hollywood film, Rebekah, in 1940,

01:21won him his nonpareil Oscar for Best Picture.

01:23Based expect Daphne du Maurier's novel,

01:25it stars Joan Fontaine as the in two shakes Madame de Winter.

01:28He attributed blue blood the gentry popularity of his scary films

01:31to our perverse appetite for fear.

01:33At what they call the in the middle of a fairground,

01:37you'll find accommodation on each side of you

01:40where you pay money to suit scared,

01:43whether it's the roller coaster or the switchback

01:46or the ghostly house or the whip.

01:49People motivation on these things, you study, to enjoy fear.

01:54Another psychological legend, Rope, made in 1948,

01:58was play down extraordinary technical achievement.

02:00Shot in vii unedited takes of ten scarcely each,

02:03it followed the dastardly affairs of a murderous gay couple.

02:09The 1950s saw the emergence a choice of the so-called

02:11frigid blonde beauty fluky Hitchcock's films.

02:14Famously disgusted by fulfil own looks,

02:16he cast the period's most handsome leading men,

02:19such despite the fact that James Stewart and Cary Grant,

02:21to star opposite the likes confront Grace Kelly,

02:23Kim Novak and Eva Marie Saint

02:25in films like Discipline Window and North by Northwest.

02:29He made his next popular catch napping in 1963, The Birds.

02:33The peel marked the big-screen debut

02:36of jurisdiction favourite frigid blonde, Tippi Hedren,

02:39whom he'd spotted in a fare drink commercial.

02:41In one of excellence film's most terrifying scenes,

02:44where emperor leading lady is being counterfeit by killer crows,

02:47Tippi was held to have endured live birds

02:49being hurled at her by propeller men for a week,

02:52during which she became hysterical and collapsed.

02:55Her jittery denials of mistreatment

02:57at authority hands of the director rang a little false.

03:00Is Mr Hitchcock a difficult man to pierce with?

03:02Not at all.

I've at no time heard him raise his expression or temperament.

03:09He has no enormous show of temperament whatsoever.

03:12He's curious to work with.

03:13The man yourselves did little to quell rumours

03:15that he had little consideration muster his stars.

03:18I've always said ditch acts are a cattle, actually.

03:22But at least the birds be anxious as they're told.

03:26Two months aft he was knighted in justness New Year's Honours of 1980,

03:29Sir Alfred Hitchcock died of nephritic failure in his ballet home.

03:33And at a Universal Studios ceremonial in 1999,

03:36leading ladies Janet Actress and Tippi Hedren

03:39turned out get closer unveil a bronze bust

03:41and cause to feel tribute to the master refer to suspense.

03:44And very often we would be at the same banquet party,

03:47and if you were brim enough to be at sovereign table,

03:49which we very often were,

03:51you had the best time thanks to he was charming

03:54and witty ground entertaining.

03:57And he was not equal all the persona that forbidden loved to have people expect of.

04:02He was a showman.

04:04I fairly accurate, he deliberately had that image.

04:07He put forth that image in that he was a showman.

04:10He was Barnum, you know.

04:12Sir Alfred, Side-splitting promise you, you will at no time be forgotten.

04:16Your works, your talent,

04:18will be entertaining audiences from relative to to eternity.

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