Alfred Hitchcock | Biography, Movies, The Birds, Psycho, Vertigo ...
Alfred Hitchcock was an English-born American motion-picture director whose suspenseful films and television programs won immense popularity ...
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Hitchcock signed with Gaumont-British in 1934, and his first film for that company, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), was also his first international success. Leslie Banks and Edna Best star as the Lawrences, a married couple on vacation in Switzerland with their daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). They inadvertently become enmeshed in a plot to assassinate a diplomat when the conspirators kidnap Betty to ensure the Lawrences’ silence until the deed is accomplished by the lethal Abbott (German actor Peter Lorre in his first English-speaking role). In just 75 minutes, culminating with the classic <anchor>Royal Albert Hall</anchor> finale, Hitchcock established himself as the new master of the sinister.