Reputations: Alfred Hitchcock (BBC, 1999)

Reputations - Alfred Hitchcock
director	Tim Kirby
company	BBC & A&E (1999)
length	approx 120 minutes
also known as	Hitch: Alfred the Great (Part 1) Hitch: Alfred the Auteur (Part 2)
documentary-75260 (add your rating)

Made to celebrate the centenary of Hitchcock's birth, this British documentary covers Hitchcock's entire career. Surviving collaborators and colleagues are interviewed. The documentary also includes footage from the Kaleidoscope project.

An edited 90 minute version of the documentary was broadcast in 2006.

A further 2 part version, with some scenes removed and others added, was broadcast in 2009 on BBC4.

Videos

The following are taken from a VHS transfer of the original TV broadcast...

Part 1 - "Hitch: Alfred the Great"

(c) BBC 1999

Part 2 - "Hitch: Alfred the Auteur"

(c) BBC 1999

DVD

• This documentary has not been officially released on DVD.

Links

• Internet Movie Database

Cast and Crew

Directed by:

• Tim Kirby

Featuring:

• Denis Lawson — narrator
• Dan Auiler — film historian
• Peter Bogdanovich
• Robert F. Boyle
• Drew Casper
• Claude Chabrol
• Herbert Coleman
• Hume Cronyn
• Georgine Darcy
• David Freeman — screenwriter, The Short Night
• Robert Goold — archive interview
• Sidney Gottlieb
• Farley Granger
• Hilton A. Green
• Tippi Hedren
• Alfred Hitchcock — archive interviews
• Patricia Hitchcock
• Evan Hunter
• Arthur Laurents
• Ernest Lehman
• Janet Leigh
• Norman Lloyd
• Ronald Neame
• Jay Presson Allen
• Marcella Rabwin — David O. Selznick's secretary
• John Russell Taylor
• Arthur Schatz — stills photographer, Kaleidoscope
• Joseph Stefano
• Herb Steinberg — publicity manager, Paramount
• Hugh Stewart
• Samuel A. Taylor
• David Thomson — Selznick biographer and film historian
• Linden Travers
• Alexander Walker — film critic
• Roy Ward Baker

Original music by:

• Chris Marshall

Edited by:

• Brand Thumim

Produced by:

• Tim Kirby

Other credits:

• Robert Kapsis — consultant
• Jon Dixon — colourist
• Michael Sanders — on-line editor
• Andre Walker — rostrum camera
• Cliff Jones — dubbing mixer
• Alan Barker, Bob Briscoe and Renato Ferarri — sound
• Fred Fabre — photography
• Bob Davis — unit manager
• Suzy Miller and Mark Walden-Mills — production assistants
• Declan Smith — archive research
• Martina Hall — assistant producer
• Janice Hadlow — series editor

Images

Taken from a VHS recording of the 1999 BBC2 broadcast of the documentary...