Hitchcock (2012)
Actors:
Kurtwood Smith (actor),
Gary Sievers (actor),
Richard Portnow (actor),
Wallace Langham (actor),
John Rothman (actor),
Walter Pidgeon (actor),
Danny Huston (actor),
Ralph Macchio (actor),
James D'Arcy (actor),
Anthony Hopkins (actor),
Spencer Garrett (actor),
Rene Auberjonois (actor),
David Hill (actor),
Michael Wincott (actor),
Joel Thingvall (actor),
Plot: In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel, Psycho, over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Alfred's work even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, actor, actress, adultery, automobile, based-on-book, beach-house, black-humor, blonde
Genres:
Biography,
Drama,
Taglines: Good evening. Behind every Psycho is a great woman.
Quotes:
Alfred Hitchcock: [after viewing the shower scene with Bernard Herrmann's score for the first time] It's getting there.
Alfred Hitchcock: I will never find a Hitchcock blonde as beautiful as you.::Alma Reville: Oh, Hitch. I've waited thirty years to hear you say that.::Alfred Hitchcock: And that my dear, is why they call me the Master of Suspense.
Alfred Hitchcock: My contract guarantees me final cut on all of my pictures.::Barney Balaban: It also states that Paramount doesn't have to release anything that might cause the studio embarrassment!::Alfred Hitchcock: As opposed to those last five Martin and Lewis pictures you're so proud of?
Geoffrey Shurlock: [In reference to the shower scene] The addition of a lyrical score will not change my opinion!
Alfred Hitchcock: You may call me Hitch. Hold the Cock.
Alfred Hitchcock: [to Janet] Hope you don't mind, I told Mrs Bates she could use your dressing room.
[last lines]::Alfred Hitchcock: Good evening.
Alma Reville: It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream, and her head. Charming. Doris Day should do it as a musical!
Rita Riggs: Is this really going to be your next picture?::Alfred Hitchcock: Yes Madam! Oh by the way, try the finger sandwiches. They are real fingers.
Alma Reville: Are we going to have to sell the whole house, or just the pool?