Book 84 - Peter Ackroyd "Alfred Hitchcock"

[jazzy_dave]

Peter Ackroyd "Alfred Hitchcock" (Vintage)




This is a pretty good biography of the famous director. The book covers of course his well-known movies and TV series, but also a good accounting of his character and personal life. Hitchcock could often be as strange and unpredictable as his movies and tied in often with some of the fears and obsessions that drove him.

One of the more surprising things about his works was that "Psycho" for which he may be most well known by the masses was not expected by himself to be much when first released. It seemed that he became ensnared in the quest to top his success that it ultimately did not pan out as his career malingered along with his age and mental decline.

Comments

[thewayne]

I listened to an interview with Mel Brooks, and his interactions with Hitchcock when he was making High Anxiety were quite amusing.