Volume 31, Number 7 · April 26, 1984
The Love Songs of Alfred J. Hitchcock
By Michael Wood
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
by Donald Spoto
Little, Brown, 594 pp., $20.00
Hitchcock
by Bruno Villien
Editions Colona (Paris), 359 pp., 248F
'If I made a film of Cinderella,' Hitchcock used to complain, 'people would start looking for the corpse.' They would, a French critic adds, and it would not be a bad place to look. Hitchcock specialized in putting bodies, live and dead, in all the wrong places, and a publicity stunt for Frenzy had a bloated dummy of Hitchcock himself, hands folded over ample stomach, floating on the Thames: a portrait of the artist as a drowned man.
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