Quentin Falk

Short and slight this is not the book to which you should turn if you want any insights or details about Hitchcock but, for someone only vaguely interested, it is a quick and accessible read.

A hard cover with many black and white illustrations - mainly from the films - the book contains enough factual information to serve as an emergency reference and does include a few tantalising snippets, although it generally raises more questions than answers.

Hitchcock seems to have been a practising Catholic, as was his wife - why then did they have only one child? What was the reason for his over-eating? What made him so driven? Why after the massive success of Psycho did his career slump in the 60s?

The book serves as an attractive introduction to a slightly enigmatic man: armed with a bevvy of questions, its really up to me to take it further if I was to discover the answers.… (plus d'informations)