Accidental Heroes of the 20th Century: 17: Alfred Hitchcock, Director

From: The Independent - London | Date: December 5, 1998 | Copyright information

WE WHO grew up in the Fifties and Sixties didn't need the bogeyman. We had Alfred Hitchcock.

We may not have been allowed to go and see Psycho, but we knew its director was the master of suspense and the prince of darkness, because he told us so - every week for 10 years, in his eponymous television series, which was the most extraordinary act of self- advertisement in television history.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents and later The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ran from 1955 to 1965. The fo...

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