Choice (2012) - Hitchcock at the source: the auteur as adaptor
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- book review: Hitchcock at the source: the auteur as adaptor
- author(s): P.H. Stacy
- journal: Choice (01/Feb/2012)
- issue: volume 49, issue 6, page 1068
- journal ISSN: 0009-4978
- publisher: American Library Association dba CHOICE
- keywords: Book reviews, Books, Motion picture directors & producers, Motion pictures, Nonfiction
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Abstract
First, some numbers: Alfred Hitchcock directed 54 feature-length movies, of which (this book observes) "21 were based on previously published or produced works." Second, some names: Joseph Conrad, Daphne du Maurier, John Steinbeck, Sean O'Casey, Somerset Maugham, and various more obscure writers (Charles Bennett, Eliot Stannard, Patrick McGilligan, John Buchan, Patricia Highsmith, Cornell Woolrich).